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2011 Map of Bowknot Bend

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Bowknot Bend
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

The Green River carves a dramatic oxbow through the desert landscape, creating the eponymous Bowknot Bend in this section of the Utah wilderness. The waterway is flanked by numerous silt-rich flats including Spring Canyon Bottom, Oak Bottom, and Woodruff Bottom, which sit deep within the towering walls of Labyrinth Canyon. These alluvial bottoms historically provided rare accessible terrain along an otherwise vertical river corridor.

Upland features such as Deadman Point and Horsethief Point offer views over the winding drainage of Barrier Creek and Horseshoe Canyon. To the south, the map indicates the boundary of Canyonlands National Park, where the river continues its descent past Point Bottom and Saddle Horse Bottom. Infrastructure is nearly nonexistent in this desert reach, represented only by the winding path of County Rd-1026 as it navigates the high ground near Keg Point.