oak-set

Updated: May 17, 2025

From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon. Past these towering monuments, past these mounded billows of orange sandstone, past these oak-set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, past these mural curves, we glide hour after hour, stopping now and then, as our attention is arrested by some new wonder, until we reach a point which is historic.

John Wesley Powell - Canyons of the Colorado