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'''Canyonlands National Park''' is an American [[national park]] located in southeastern [[Utah]] near the town of [[Moab, Utah|Moab]]. The park preserves a colorful landscape eroded into numerous [[canyon]]s, [[mesa]]s, and [[butte]]s by the [[Colorado River]], the [[Green River (Colorado River)|Green River]], and their respective tributaries. Legislation creating the park was signed into law by President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] on September 12, 1964.<ref>{{cite web|title=Canyonlands Visitor Guide 2014 |url=http://www.nps.gov/cany/planyourvisit/upload/2014CANYVisitorGuide_forWeb.pdf |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=September 25, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014051447/http://www.nps.gov/cany/planyourvisit/upload/2014CANYVisitorGuide_forWeb.pdf |archive-date=October 14, 2014 }}</ref>
The park is divided into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and the combined rivers—the Green and Colorado—which carved two large canyons into the [[Colorado Plateau]]. While these areas share a primitive desert atmosphere, each retains its own character.<ref><!--direct quote from PD source-->{{cite web |title=Canyonlands |publisher=National Park Service |url=http://www.nps.gov/cany/index.htm |access-date=2011-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619093141/http://www.nps.gov/cany/index.htm |archive-date=2015-06-19 |url-status=live }}</ref> Author [[Edward Abbey]], a frequent visitor, described the Canyonlands as "the most weird, wonderful, magical place on earth—there is nothing else like it anywhere."<ref>{{cite book |last=Abbey |first=Edward |title=Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast |year=2006 |publisher=Milkweed Press |isbn=1-57131-284-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/postcardsfromedd0000abbe/page/175 175] |url=https://archive.org/details/postcardsfromedd0000abbe/page/175 }}</ref>
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