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PICKS: Driving into Zion National Park from the East entrance Entering the park from this direction gives you the chance to see Zion starting from the slick rock formation at the top and then descending slowly into the valley where the mythic cliffs tower over you. It’s a very intimate way to enter the park. […] PICKS: Driving on Utah Highway 12 One of the amazing things about this Utah place is that you can go from sandstone canyon to huge dirt dunes, through a lush national forest and come out into white slickrock that stretches for miles and miles. We did exactly that when we drove on Hwy 12 from […] Even though Capitol Reef is surrounded by some of the most popular national parks in the country, it somehow manages to fly mostly under the radar. We didn’t show up at the campground until early evening and easily got a great campsite, which, as we were to find out later, is highly unusual in the […] PICKS: Monument Valley Drive Having just seen Chevy Chase crash the family station wagon with cinematic aplomb into the middle of Monument Valley, I knew we were about to embark on one of the most classic American road trip routes through the southwest. Monument Valley, with its geological towers and spires rising dramatically up out […] PICKS: Petrified Forest National Park Petrified Forest National Park is probably one of the coolest little national parks you’ve never heard of. We decided to stop off just because it happened to be on our way from Flagstaff to Canyon de Chelly, and weren’t really expecting much, especially given our previous encounter with petrified wood […] |
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