Utah Photo Adventure, Part 7 - Caineville, UT

 (NOTE: This is the seventh in a series of posts about a photography trip I took in early November, 2022.)

Caineville, Utah, is a little dot on the map about 18 miles west of Hanksville, but we could never ascertain whether there was actually a town there or not.  There are farms and ranches along the Fremont River; a couple of RV parks; a shuttered Rodeway Inn, but that's about it.  Still, there were a lot of interesting and beautiful things to photograph.

No photography trip of mine would be complete without a cemetery, and we found the Caineville Cemetery scratched into the hills below the South Caineville Mesa (about which, more below):

The cemetery also has a small fenced plot which contains the gravesite of Ebenezer K. Hanks, the man who founded Hanksville.  Why he is buried in the Caineville cemetery, I don't know.

Though it may not be a town, Caineville has some majestic scenery along Utah Route 24.  There are cliffs like ramparts hundreds of feet high:

Massive free-standing monoliths . . .

(Note Alan in this image for scale.)

. . . and two giant mesas:  North and South Caineville.  They're not far from Factory Butte and are made of the same materials -- sandstone caprock and Mancos shale shoulders and foothills.

(BTW, the difference between a mesa and a butte is this:  a mesa is wider at the top than it is tall; a butte is taller than it is wide.)

Here are views of North Caineville Mesa and some of its various features:

(NOTE:  This is just one "arm" of North Caineville Mesa.)

South Caineville Mesa, rising above the Fremont River valley, provided even more dramatic views:

The sharp-looking (but soft) shoulder formations of Mancos shale lent themselves to black-and-white treatment:

But "Golden Hour" light at sunset was the best:

This is the penultimate post about our Utah Photo Adventure.  The final post will include photos that deserve to be seen but didn't fit into the story arc of any of the previous posts.

If you would like to see these images in a larger format, please visit my photography website, Todos Juntos Photography, by clicking here.

Enjoy!