If you take Utah Route 95 from Hanksville southwest to Blanding, you get to take in a lot of sights- which explains its designation as a Scenic Byway. For 125 miles, you pass through no towns, and wander from elevated plain to desert wilderness as you enter the Glen Canyon/Lake Powell region.

Towards Blanding, you find a metallic monolith in a red rock wilderness. The bridge at Hite Crossing demarks the meeting of the Colorado River canyon and an arm of Lake Powell northwest of Blanding, Utah.

This span is the only bridge across the Colorado River within the 295 miles between Moab and the Glen Canyon Dam.