{"id":16321,"date":"2026-06-03T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:31:02","slug":"16321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2026\/06\/03\/16321\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How Dozens of Classic Cars Ended Up Stacked Like Firewood in a Utah Canyon \u1265\u12d3\u1230\u122d\u1270\u1273\u1275 \u12da\u125d\u1338\u122b \u12ad\u120b\u1232\u12ab\u12ca \u121b\u12ab\u12ed\u1295 \u12a3\u1265 \u12ab\u1295\u12ee\u1295 \u12e9\u1273 \u12b8\u121d \u12d5\u1295\u1328\u12ed\u1272 \u12b8\u121d \u12a5\u1270\u12c0\u1218\u1228 \u1295\u121d\u1295\u1273\u12ed?\u12a3\u1265 \u1273\u1215\u1272 \u12a3\u121d\u1265\u1261<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16322\" style=\"width:550px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1-768x648.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/how-dozens-of-classic-cars-ended-up-stacked-like-firewood-in-a-utah-canyon?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us\">https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/how-dozens-of-classic-cars-ended-up-stacked-like-firewood-in-a-utah-canyon?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just off Highway 89 hides one of the most surreal automotive ruins you&#8217;ll see\u2014and the old cars are still there for a good reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right off Highway 89 in Utah near mile marker 25, just above the border with Arizona and about 80 miles east of Zion National Park, lies an oddity: the ruins of Detroit metal in various hues, piled from the canyon floor up to the road itself. These scrapped cars have been here for around six decades, but today they look completely out of place in the desert. There\u2019s a good reason for their existence\u2014or, at least, there was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This area is known as Catstair Canyon, and the junked car wall, the Catstair Riprap. \u201cRiprap,\u201d for those of us not well versed in waterway studies, is any sort of material deposited along banks to protect the adjoining land from erosion. 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