While there seems to be a “Lands End Road” in nearly every state, the one I refer to here is the one at the tip of Grand Mesa in western Colorado. From Grand Mesa is a view a view of the Grand Valley, its farmlands and multifarious vineyards, which produce some of our country’s best wineries and breweries. It’s a long story but I can attest that here are grown, nurtured, and harvested the most delicious peaches in the USA! One can see far across the valley along the Bookcliff Mountain range on the north side of the valley, which extend far into Utah and southeast of Provo.
To the southwest is the Colorado National Monument, a park made famous by the mid-‘60s Ford Motor Company, when they airlifted a Ford Mustang onto to the top of a monolith which had room for little else at the top of the massive spire! I drove or hiked the National Monument many times when I was in college in nearby Grand Junction, a farming community which has grown leaps and bounds since the 1970s, when I was there.
Traipsing its way through the valley is the Colorado River, which flows southwestward through Lake Powell then down through Lake Mead and under the Hoover Dam, twisting and turning through the Grand Canyon and slipping finally into the Gulf of California, which feeds into the Gulf of Mexico, at long last.
South of the Colorado Monument stretches the Uncompahgre Plateau, a vast, remote chunk of geography encompassing red rock desert canyons and magnificent quivering aspen and Ponderosa Pine forests. The 210,000-acre plateau includes the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area and the Dominguez Canyon Wilderness.
Wherever you look, in every direction from Lands End Road, is another place you can explore by car, foot, or even raft or boat and hundreds of thousands of acres to camp in!

Sounds include:
A track of horror ambience, a musical piece called “Repentance”, and another musical piece called “Sadness”.
The voices heard here are a group of Hare Krishna followers chanting and playing instruments.

Credits:
Thanks to Freesound uploaders klankbeeld, bruno-ph, esistnichtsoernst, and nickh69.

All artwork © 2020 Samuel Bissell