In this last of four posts about the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, we see a video of another of its treasures. There are colorful, natural cliffs in the otherwise desert flatlands of America’s Southwest known as Vermilion Cliffs. They were designated a National Monument in 2000, one of our most recent and undeveloped frontiers. […]
The Rainbow Bridge was designated a National Monument in 1910. Located in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, you get to this giant arch two ways: by a backcountry trek of 50 miles, or by a National Park Service boat from Lake Powell’s Wahweap boat launch. I chose the latter. The Monument connects us with […]
Again visiting Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, we will be looking at the picturesque area known as Horseshoe Bend in today’s short three-minute video. Located just five miles downstream from Lake Powell, and minutes from the city of Page, Arizona, it is worth the side trip when you visit this area. When I went in […]
It’s looking and feeling like summer again. There’s no better way to beat the heat than to cool off by jumping into a giant body of water! The Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a 1.25 million acre United States National Parks Service site on the border of Utah and Arizona, has Lake Powell. This reservoir […]
One of the U.S.A.’s newest National Monuments is Gold Butte, close to the city of Mesquite in southeast Nevada, alongside the Utah/Arizona border. As one of President Obama’s last actions in office, 300,000 acres of the Mojave Desert were declared a National Monument under the Antiquities Act in 2016. (National Monuments are similar to National […]
In the south of the Northern Australia region lies Uluru. Titled Ayers Rock, yet time indeterminate, this area is the Outback which Australia is famed. I was fortunate enough to make this trek via jet airliner from Sydney. Flying over acres and acres of brushland, it can be easy to overlook how the flora, fauna, […]
Cedar Breaks National Monument is a subalpine forest and meadow national monument. At 10,000 feet in elevation, the air is crisp, wildflowers sprout and grow even through the hottest months of summer, (the photographs in the video were taken in early August, 2023,) and night skies dazzle. A natural amphitheater, with walls over 2,000 feet […]
As explained in the last post, the Dinosaur Diamond is a National Scenic Byway in the states of Utah and Colorado, U.S.A. This post will show you that this area is important, not only nationally, (by the way, it is also a dynamic drive through the desert,) but is a world-leading dinosaur fossil feast-the biggest […]
The Dinosaur Diamond is a 486 mile National Scenic Byway in Utah and Colorado, U.S.A. The name comes from the shape of the route, which appoximates a diamond, and because it is the preeminent dinosaur boneyard in the world. To be one of America’s Scenic Byways, a route must have scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archeological, […]
Colorado National Monument is situated between the towns of Fruita and Grand Junction, Colorado. It is managed by the U. S. National Park Service. There is a campground, many trails, and a very scenic drive in the Monument. Nearly within a stone’s-throw of U.S. Interstate 70, it makes a neat addition to a trip to […]