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Utah Canyon Country

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Zion National Park

Springdale, UT · Southern Utah$

Private cars can't drive Zion Canyon's Scenic Drive in Utah from March through November, and a free shuttle carries everyone up the canyon instead. A second free one, the…

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Arches National Park

Moab, UT · Southern Utah$

From the Wolfe Ranch lot in Arches National Park, outside Moab, the walk to Delicate Arch is 3 miles round trip and climbs 480 feet. You pass the Wolfe Ranch cabin and a wall of…

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Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon City, UT · Southern Utah$

Bryce Canyon's amphitheater viewpoints are all on the first 3 miles of the park road off Utah 12, and a free shuttle stops at them from April into October. For a first hike down…

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Canyonlands National Park

Moab, UT · Southern Utah$

Driving from one district of Canyonlands National Park, outside Moab, to another takes two to six hours, since no road joins them directly. The park has no gas or food, and cell…

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Capitol Reef National Park

Torrey, UT · Southern Utah$

The Gifford House, a 1908 homestead in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, sells locally baked fruit pies from Pi Day, March 14, to late November. It stands in Fruita, settled by…

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Natural Bridges National Monument

Blanding, UT · Cedar Mesa, Southeastern Utah$

In March 2007 the International Dark-Sky Association named this small Cedar Mesa monument the world's first International Dark Sky Park, and it holds Gold tier on a sky measured…

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The Narrows

Springdale, UT · Colorado Plateau, Southwest Utah$

The Narrows is not a trail so much as a river you walk up. From the Temple of Sinawava, the last stop on the Zion shuttle, a paved mile of Riverside Walk ends at the water. After…

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Buckskin Gulch

Kanab, UT · Colorado Plateau, Southern Utah$

Buckskin Gulch runs about 16 miles through Navajo sandstone, one of the longest continuous slot canyons anywhere, with stretches barely 10 feet wide under hundreds of feet of…

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Peek-a-boo and Spooky Gulch

Escalante, UT · Grand Staircase-Escalante, Southern UtahFree

Two famously tight slots sit side by side in the Dry Fork of Coyote Gulch, and the usual loop climbs up one and squeezes down the other. Peek-a-boo starts with a 12 foot dryfall…