"To come upon the spires, known as the Needles, in [Canyonlands National Park's] southern section is like approaching a megalopolis of rocks. These pinnacles of red and white banded sandstone, some reaching 300 feet (91 meters) in height, cluster like skyscrapers around open grassland."
—Text from the National Geographic book America's Majestic Canyons, 1979
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Utah: Land of Promise, Kingdom of Stone," January 1996, National Geographic magazine)
