Your Guide to Arches National Park

Arches National Park is a place to see sweeping views of a pristine Southern Utah desert landscape. The park’s main attraction is its over 2,000 natural arches, the largest concentration in the world, but it contains other wonders in the shapes of pinnacles, spires, hoodoos, and balanced rocks, all of which are stunning to look at and even more fun to explore. The allure of Arches is amplified by what’s around it: Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, the town of Moab, and numerous other outdoor activities. The entire area has become a destination for adventure seekers, and Arches National Park is one of the top attractions.

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Your Guide to Capitol Reef National Park

Don’t let the name fool you; Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park is not a water park. It’s the site of a nearly 100-mile long uplift in the ground—called a waterpocket fold—that has eroded over the last 50 million years creating a spectacular ridge of cliffs in south-central Utah. Visitors come to the park to marvel at the bluffs along its 8-mile Scenic Drive, hike secluded desert trails, and get a glimpse of what life was like for the settlers who made a home along the Fremont River a hundred years ago. In the past, the other Utah national parks often overshadowed Capitol Reef; now, it has a reputation of its own as a world-class outdoor destination with over one million people visiting each year.

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Your Guide to Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park

It would be hard to overstate how impressive the view of Bryce Canyon is from the rim the first time you see it. Our reaction was similar to when we first saw the Grand Canyon: stunned silence. Standing at the rim, watching the shadows of puffy clouds race across thousands of reddish-brown hoodoos in the canyon’s amphitheater, you quickly understand why Bryce is so popular.

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How to Plan a Grand Canyon River Trip

Over six million people visited Grand Canyon National Park last year, and for most of them, their lasting impression of the park is the view from the top of the canyon looking down. From the rim, where thousands of people gather each day to gaze at its spender, the canyon looks bottomless; there are only a few viewpoints where you can glimpse the Colorado River: the reason the canyon exists in the first place.

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