Moki Dugway by Car

In this video I take you down the Moki Dugway and on into Mexican Hat and the bridge over the San Juan river. This video was shot using a Panasonic GH-2 camera using a 7-14mm lens at 7mm. The Camera was mounted to a magnetic mount that was placed on top of the roof of the car so you don't get reflections off the windshield as you would if the camera was inside the car. The Moki Dugway was built in 1957/1958 in order to facilitate the transport of Uranium ore from the mine at Fry Canyon to the processing plant south of Mexican Hat. The trucks carrying ore from the mine would then descend the Moki Dugway and one can only imagine how much fun that must have been in the winter, with snow, driving a heavy truck with bad brakes. This region of the country is predominately Native American (American Indian) and has been for a very long time. Above the Dugway and along the canyons not far from the top are many ancient dwellings built into the side of the canyons. The Ancestral Puebloans that lived here and disappeared from there dwellings about 900 years ago left not only there rock and wood dwellings but many works of art scratched into the desert varnish that color the sandstone throughout the region. These dwellings are very much the same as those found a Mesa Verde in SW Colorado -- just a hundred mile away. Mexican Hat makes a great base to explore the west as you are within a short drive of: Monument Valley, Valley of the Gods, the Moki Dugway, Natural Bridges, Gooseneck State Park, the Four Corners region, Canyon De Chelly, and the Glen Canyon Recreation Area. A bit further drive takes you to Moab and the national parks of Arches and Canyonlands. Heading further west and you have Capitol Reef NP, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Bryce Canyon NP, Zion NP. Less than a day and you're at the Grand Canyon. Please check out some of my other videos from this area including drone videos in 4K of Mexican Hat, the Valley of the Gods, and the Moki Dugway. And feel free to check out my other videos on my channel. See links... Valley of the Gods (Drone in 4K)    • Valley of the Gods   Moki Dugway by Drone (4K)    • Moki Dugway by Drone   Mexican Hat (Drone in 4K)    • Mexican Hat   Behind the Mexican Hat (Drone in 4K with narration))    • Behind the Mexican Hat   Little Colorado River Gorge (Drone in 4K with narration)    • Little Colorado River Gorge   And some other videos of mine: Canyon Diablo Railroad Bridge (with narration)    • Canyon Diablo Railroad Bridge   Two Guns abandoned roadside attraction (Drone in 4K with narration)    • Two Guns   Johnson Canyon near Kanab Utah (Drone in 4K)    • Johnson Canyon   And others... I have another 15 or more videos I plan to edit and upload within the next month or so.