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The rafters and backpackers who come to this desert landscape are the latest in a long line of visitors that has included ancient hunter-gatherers and 19th-century cowboys. The dramatic park also features 527 square miles of redrock canyons, mesas, and buttes. Use these clues to guess the name of the park that includes these twin rivers.

227
Total trail miles in the park. Almost 69,000 people backpacked here in 2008 (most popular month was October; least popular, January). There are just 21 designated campsites, but extensive at-large camping zones ensure that you'll find solitude.

350
Number of desert bighorn sheep in the park, up from a low of just 100 in 1964. Reintroduction programs since the park's inception have helped boost their numbers. Hikers should also keep an eye out for collared lizards, kangaroo rats, and midget faded rattlesnakes.

114,900
Flow, in cfs, recorded in the park's premier whitewater canyon in 1984–the highest in more than a century. Treacherous class V rapids form anytime the flow tops 50,000 cfs.

7,000
Age, in years, of the oldest pictographs found on the park's best-known panel of rock art.

2
Percent of visitors who raft either of the park's two rivers. Even fewer attempt the park's infamous whitewater run: a 15-mile stretch of class III to V rapids that come in the middle of a classic 90-mile, five-day trip that includes 49 miles of flatwater paddling.

November Answer: Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia
Winner: Pamela Hansen, Tiffin, OH