Thelma and Louise Point---an unofficial name, not on any map---is the place where movie
makers filmed the final scene of “Thelma and Louise." In the movie, two fugitive women
drive their caroff the edge of a cliff into a river canyon.
The Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission web page calls the site "Fossil Point."
The point is south-southeast of the south overlook at Dead Horse Point State Park and is where
Shafer Trail comes very close (laterally, not vertically) to the river. I stopped here to inspect
the terrain with my binoculars, completely unaware that a movie had been filmed here.
Two young women in a sport utility vehicle arrived as I was inspecting the rock strata across
the river. When they stepped out of their vehicle my attention shifted from the rock strata to
a more interesting landscape close at hand. One of those women informed me of the movie-making
activity here. She also photographed me with my camera. Thank you, anonymous tourist!
I'll bet there aren't ten Americans who knew that Thelma and Louise drove their car off Fossil point. I knew. I've been there and I know the Moab area well.