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Harpers Corner Road

Harpers Corner Road is a scenic drive in Utah. Within Utah it covers roughly 30 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Harpers Corner Road with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.

Harpers Corner Road is a 31-mile paved scenic drive in Dinosaur National Monument, though most of it lies in Colorado. Only a roughly 4-mile stretch crosses into Utah, passing the turnoff for Echo Park Road before the road returns across the state line. The drive begins near the monument's Colorado entrance, just east of the town of Dinosaur on US Highway 40, and climbs onto open plateau country before running along canyon rims carved by the Green and Yampa Rivers. From the Utah section, and increasingly as the road nears its end, travelers get views north toward the Uinta Mountains alongside the deep canyon systems below. The road terminates at the Harpers Corner trailhead, where a 2-mile round-trip nature trail leads to an overlook above the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers, one of the monument's signature views. Because the isolated overlook sits so close to the Colorado-Utah line, this Utah crossing is a small but genuine part of one of the monument's classic drives.

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About this drive

This is a scenic drive — a road worth taking for the views and the journey itself rather than the quickest line between two points.

Where to Stay along Harpers Corner Road

No campgrounds are listed close to Harpers Corner Road yet, but there are rooms near the route.

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