Bryce Canyon National Park:
Capitol Reef National Park:
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| Hickman Bridge |
Coyote Buttes (The Wave is here, but we visited the less-visited Paw Hole area. Buckskin Gulch is here, too.):
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| Starting out in an April snowstorm (Paw Hole) |
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| Layer-cake rocks (Paw Hole) |
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| Buckskin Gulch slot canyon |
Goblin Valley State Park. These are some of the most family-friendly photos I had:
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| Hoodoos left by interesting erosion |
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| The Henry Mountains |
Pariah River. The southernmost stretch is famous, and we hiked it in 1995(before digital),but upstream is pretty, too. We went there in 2006:
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| "River" is often a courtesy term out west. Though I think this was a side-stream. |
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| Definitely a side-stream, with clear, cool water. |
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| This area had a mix of petroglyphs and "cowboy glyphs"--historical, rather than prehistorical, rock art. |
The Toadstools (a dinky spot near Kanab, just to show that you can't move in Utah without tripping over something cool):
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| Differential erosion again, due to different hardnesses of the rocks |
Zion National Park:
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| Zion Canyon from up on the rim (nearly 10,000') |
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| The Virgin River from Angel's Landing--a hike not for the acrophobic. |
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| Hiking the Virgin River Narrows, a beautiful canyon to be avoided in rainy seasons. |
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| Amazing how cold this was at 6:30 a.m., and how refreshing three hours later when we returned! |
It's an unmercifully huge collection of photos, and even so I've left out Canyonlands National Park, the San Rafael reef (much of which is unprotected, though in any other state it would be a park for sure), the Great Salt Lake, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area Lake Powell, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument, Dinosaur National Monument, Kodachrome Basin, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, and the Uinta Mountains (ditto the La Sals, the Henry Mountains, and the Abajo Mountains, all sky islands--isolated mountain ranges that are ecological "islands"), etc., etc., etc. "The Greatest Earth on Show," indeed.
