Category: Travel

Grand Canyon National Park

The Grand Canyon has been occupied by humans for more than 25,000 years. Long before the arrival of European-Americans, the indigenous people of the canyon had established trails, farms, trade routes, and villages in...

Antelope Canyon

Located on the Navajo Nation just east of Page, Arizona is the spectacular slot canyon of Antelope Canyon. There are actually six separate, scenic slot canyon sections with Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons being...

Zion National Park

Zion National Park is a secluded canyon where red and white sandstone cliffs of southwest Utah tower hundreds of feet above the Virgin River, which meanders through a network of narrow canyons. Ancient nomadic...

Monument Valley

Monument Valley (known as Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii in Navajo) is located in the southern region of the Colorado Plateau and is characterized by a large collection of sandstone buttes. Some of these buttes rise...

Mesa Verde National Park

Mesa Verde National Park was established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt to preserve the cultural and historic significance of the site. For thousands of years people have traveled through and built thriving communities...

Canyonlands National Park

Located in southeastern Utah, Canyonlands National Park preserves a wilderness of rock at the heart of the Colorado Plateau. Over hundreds of millions of years, water and gravity have cut flat sedimentary rock into...

Arches National Park

Arches National Park is located eight miles north of Moab in eastern Utah and preserves 76,679 acres of high desert on the Colorado Plateau. First established as a national monument in 1929, Arches National...

Capitol Reef National Park

Located in south-central Utah in the heart of red rock country, Capitol Reef National Park is my thirteenth national park since embarking on this adventure. Capitol Reef’s defining geological feature is a 100-mile wrinkle...

Bryce Canyon National Park

Ebenezer Bryce was a Scottish-born shipwright who as an 18-year-old converted to Mormonism and then moved to Utah where he married Mary Ann Park. At the direction of church officials, the Bryces became serial...

Idaho

After leaving Glacier National Park, I made my west to Logan State Park located in the Thompson Lakes region of Montana for a relaxing Labor Day. My plan calls for me to traverse the...