Category: Utah
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Let’s take a drive! – Bluff, Utah
While driving and hiking to/from intriguing ancient ruins, we were constantly treated to amazing scenery all around. We are after all in southern Utah, known for its dramatic sprawl of red rocks and geological splendor. The diversity we witnessed kept my camera busy and us fascinated. Let me show you the scenery, and hopefully you’ll be as taken…
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A Glimpse of Past Inhabitants – Bluff, UT
Excitement was in the air as we left Page, Arizona, heading toward our next destination at Bluff, Utah. Happily, our route along Hwy 163 took us through one of our bucket list “must-see” places, Monument Valley. It’s striking landscape is the most photographed area lying entirely within Navajo Indian Reservation territory along the Utah/Arizona border. The Navajo name for the area is…
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Banded Hills, Toadstools and Canyons – Kane County, UT
While perusing my recent photos I realized I’d overlooked some activities we enjoyed along scenic US 89 near the Utah state line while camping in Page, AZ. There are two accessible areas of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument between Kanab and Page. Folks who enjoyed my Lower Antelope Canyon photos (click here to see them) might also like the ones I took in this area.…
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Final hikes beyond Zion National Park
By the second week of our stay we avoided going into Zion National Park, for the spring break crowd with its associated traffic was getting tiresome. We found some trails outside the park and just a few miles from our site at Zion River Resort in Virgin. They didn’t have the spectacular scenery that we’d gotten used…
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The hiking frenzy continues – Zion National Park, UT
In a way it was a good thing our planned hike at Kolob Canyons the day before fizzled, for it allowed us an extra day of rest before tackling another bunch of hikes. Having completed all the classic and strenuous treks we were interested in (click here and here to see them), we set our eyes on several easy and…
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Quiet Parts of Zion National Park
Kolob Canyons After two straight days of long, grueling hikes and then a day of rest, we intended to go at it again outside the main part of Zion National Park. Our planned destination was Kolob Canyons, a remote section of Zion located at exit 40 on Interstate 15, about 40 miles north of Zion Canyon. As…
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Feeling Crazy? Let’s hike Angels Landing! – Zion NP
Angels Landing Trail Despite over 10 miles of hiking we did the previous day from the Weeping Rock shuttle stop, we were energized to tackle the most popular strenuous trail in Zion, Angels Landing. Once again we caught the first shuttle at 7:00am, but this time about a dozen other folks had the same idea and joined…
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Hello Utah, and Zion National Park!
With the first day of Spring right around the corner, we sprinted out of Nevada and into Utah – our 46th state! This is one state that Steve and I are really looking forward to spend a lot of time in. It’s so full of amazing places, and we hope the three months we’ve allocated is enough.…
