Stories from the Outdoors tales of urbanite survival in the not so wild outdoors

Valley of Fire Nevada State Park
Valley of Fire State Park is about an hour outside of Las Vegas just off Interstate 15 north. If you are coming or going to Zion National Park, it is easy to map a loop down the smaller highway to see it. Valley of Fire is a small park, but with some quite interesting rock […]

Zion National Park
Zion National Park is probably the park I knew the absolutely least about before our trip. It was the last stop on our itinerary and I just hadn’t done much in the way of research. Despite my personal ignorance, it is a pretty well known National Park and well visited. Being not far from Vegas […]

From Moab to Bryce – Journey Before Destination
Leaving Moab, we struck across Utah to the west on our way to Bryce Canyon National Park. Taking highway 24 to the scene highway 12 led us through Capitol Reef National Park, so we stopped for a few sights and a bit of lunch. It is a long thin shaped park following the ridge of […]

Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park sits in southwestern Utah, and holds a particularly lofty reputation. Perhaps this is due to it’s proximity to Vegas as well as the spectacular views. The main attraction of Bryce are the forest of hoodoos, vertical spiky rock formations in an orange red hue. Plenty of overlooks and some pretty good […]