Talk:Rainbow Bridge National Monument

Biggest?
Introduction now says "Rainbow Bridge is often described as the world's largest natural bridge; while this title may be deserved it is a little misleading, as the technical differences between a natural bridge and a natural arch are minor and subject to interpretation."

Actually, I think there's a clearcut distinction: if there's a watercourse under it, it's a natural bridge: http://www.naturalarches.org/archinfo/faq.htm And the Dictionary of Geological Terms defines a natural bridge as a "natural arch that spans a valley of erosion.

Propose editing to remove POV. Comments? Pete Tillman 22:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC), Consulting Geologist, Arizona and New Mexico (USA)
 * I'm ok with it. I haven't been there (yet - my wife really wants to go sometime) but looking at the photo on the page, it looks like it straddles a wash - so that would make it a bridge, right? &mdash; Zaui (talk) 17:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

LoL that is a amazing place to go

Star Wars ?
Did this National Monument inspire George Lucas for his first Star Wars episode ? The "pod race" sequence (in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, 1999) shows indeed an area of several archs (or bridges ;) very similar to the Rainbow Bridge... Could any Star Wars fan check this information and source it? 343KKT Kintaro (talk) 19:42, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Removal of Aerial Photo
While the aerial photo of Rainbow Bridge is a nice photograph, it was also taken illegally. The metadata shows that it was taken with a PHANTOM VISION FC200, which is a camera attached to a quadcopter/drone for aerial photography. These machines are illegal in areas administered by the National Park Service. The system-wide ban went into effect on June 27 2014, and according to the metadata, this photo was taken on June 29 2014. Here's an article about a drone incident at Rainbow Bridge about a month later that talks about the ban in this National Monument specifically: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=31035351

Wikipedia shouldn't tolerate illegally taken photos, so I am removing it from this article. BoulderPD (talk) 19:06, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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