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 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 […]
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 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 […]
I had never heard of Moab, Utah before planning this trip. Even looking it up on a map shows a little dot in southeastern Utah. What is really known about Moab isn’t in town, but nearby in the parks of Arches and Canyonlands. Now Arches National Park I HAD heard of. Monument Valley definitely has […]
Arches National Park is potentially the most well known park in Utah. Delicate Arch rates top billing on their license place even, so if you have even been behind a Utah car you probably have seen this park. Canyonlands however is potentially not as well known. And yet both of these parks are within easy […]
Monument Valley is The West as epitomized by western films with sharp jutting rocks and wide sunset vistas. The Mittens are probably one of the most recognizable “out west” vistas in the entire country. Monument Valley is their home, but there is so much more than just the Mittens. This is what I wanted to […]
I had never heard of Page, AZ before we planned this trip. It is however home to Antelope Canyon, which I had heard of. There is also a really famous overlook of a horseshoe curve in the Colorado River. The town is near Glen Canyon, which feeds over a similarly named dam from Lake Powell. […]
Grand Canyon is a huge national park. Like seriously big, but it kind of has to be to hold the whole canyon. Even still when you think about “visiting the Grand Canyon”, you are probably picturing the visitor center and trails around the South Rim. There is a North Rim with a lodge and a […]
Death Valley is known for the isolation and the stark nothingness of being. It contains the lowest place in the US and constantly ends up with the hottest record temperatures. Dry, dusty, hot, rocky. Umm… so why would you want to go? Well, because these things make it quite unique, there are a lot of […]