This park has the famous hoodoos — nature-created, rock towers and sculptures. It is always an interesting site. I find myself returning year after year. Even during the summer, the temperatures are not too hot because of the park’s elevation. Winters are cozy, too, when you book a cabin at the Bryce Canyon Lodge. I’ve […]
Today we see Zion National Park in Utah, USA. Although perhaps not as ecologically diverse as Yellowstone and the Tetons, (i.e., geysers, wildlife, snow, lakes, rivers, mountaintops,) Zion has nearly as many natural landscapes to explore. There are trails along the Virgin River (in the Narrows) and up to the tops of mountains (at Angel’s […]
Continuing our exploration of Utah’s National Parks, (there are five of them ((!)),) today’s video captures Capitol Reef. This park may not get as many visitors as other parks in Utah, but it is worthwhile to visit. As I have said before, it seems to me that most of Utah is one big, beautiful, red […]
I love the name of this park – “Canyonlands.” It is located very close to Arches, so you could see both during a single vacation. Before you go hiking, though, make sure you have plenty of bottled water and a good map or sense of direction. As you will see in the following video, the […]
Just up the road from the Four Corners of the Southwest area, in prior posts, is the landscape known as Utah. Every time I go there, I cannot help but think that the whole state is one gigantic park. Whether it is winter, (skiing and snowboarding,) spring, summer or fall, (red rock hiking, climbing, fishing, […]
Naturally, this is the fourth, and last, of the Four Corners videos. It is about the Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation landscape. Since Hollywood shot many a Western film here, you could be familiar with the area. It is a land unbounded by perimeters, but with “monument” landmarks that make it quintessentially southwest United States. […]
Let’s continue on in the Four Corners region of the USA’s Southwest Region and explore the beauty of Canyon de Chelly National Monument.
For the next few weeks, as part of the National Parks, Memorials and Monuments series, we explore the Four Corners region of the United States, (southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.) In the Four Corners, many cultural and historical sites exist today. For a start, in the last post, we visited […]
On a dark and rainy day, I drift into imaginations of how life was lived a hundred years ago. The machines people used were different from today, but I’d bet the people were similar to us in that they needed trade with other people for goods, money, and services. In recognition, today I post about […]