Great Destinations

Horseshoe Canyon Features America's Finest Rock Art

 NEW!  Horseshoe Canyon, a detached section of Canyonlands National Park in a remote section of southeast Utah, features some of the world's greatest rock art. The Great Gallery is the most well-known and spectacular of the canyon's four major panels. Horseshoe Canyon itself is spectacular with steep sandstone walls and groves of mature cottonwood trees and other riparian growth... Visiting the canyon is an exciting adventure featuring a long drive on a remote dirt road followed by a great hike. (More...)

Four Corners Region: A Trio of Roadside Stops in Southeast Utah

• NEW! Goosenecks State Park offers an overlook featuring "the finest examples of entrenched meanders anywhere in the world". (Photo, right.)
• NEW! The Hite Overlook provides views of Lake Powell's canyon country at its finest.
• NEW! The Mule Canyon Archaeological Ruin features a well-preserved Ancestral Pueblo ruin dating back nearly a thousand years.

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

 NEW!  Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park offers some of the Southwest's most famous and unusual scenery. Its Navajo name, Tsé Bii' Ndzisgaii, means "Valley of the Rocks". The high desert landscape on the border of Arizona and Utah is a fantastic wonderland of colorful mesas, spires, buttes, and monoliths. Monument Valley is well-known for the many movies filmed in the area, including the 1939 classic John Ford western, Stagecoach, which made John Wayne a star. (More...)

Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

  Nevada's oldest state park, Valley of Fire State Park preserves a starkly beautiful section of the Mojave Desert noted for its brilliantly red sandstone formations including cliffs and petrified sand dunes. as well as outstanding wildlife. The red color is enhanced late in the day, near sunset. There are also petrified logs, ancient petroglyphs and, if you are lucky, superb wildlife viewing. On our recent visit, we got lucky, seeing superb, brilliant colors right before sunset and a herd of bighorn sheep close to the road, right after sunset. (More...)

Remote Adventure at Coyote Buttes South

  It is this easy to miss out on a good thing: Hikers and photographers from all over the world fight for scarce permits to visit the magnificent and famous Wave formation in Coyote Buttes North, one of the world’s most well-known and surreal landscapes. Meanwhile scarce permits for the adjacent Coyote Buttes South unit often go unclaimed. Too bad. A permit to go south is a ticket to adventure, featuring an exciting drive on remote roads and at-large exploration of an untrailed wilderness. (More...)

Lower Antelope Canyon -
Photographers' Fantasyland

  Visitors to the American West who wish to become superstar photographers for a day can easily do so here in Arizona! Parts of Upper and Lower Antelope Canyon form into "slot canyons", Canyon Country's most exquisite places, abounding with fantastic and easily accessible photo opportunities...(More)