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The location is only 15 miles from Moab as the crow flies.

My bet is someone living in Moab wanted to do a desert art project and chose this location that was reasonably close, but still fairly remote.

People do all kinds of stuff out in the desert around Moab.

Just about 10-20 miles northwest of this monolith there's a small slacklining festival called GGBY held in a similarly remote location. Look up Fruit Bowl Highline Area on google maps and check out youtube to see some of the wild stuff people do!