Yesterday we hiked a six-mile round-trip trail deep into Canyonlands National Park—the Chesler Park trail. It was a fairly moderate hike, although it did involve some scrambling over slickrock. We saw a handful of people on the trail, but mostly, it was just the two of us in an enormous wild landscape of rock formations, […]
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Canyonlands National Park is spacious, uncrowded, and absolutely gorgeous. Although we’ve visited (more than once) the other national parks in Utah (Arches, Bryce, Capitol Reef, and Zion), this was our first visit to Canyonlands. We’re glad we made the effort. We’re not sure why we bypassed this park on our many other trips to the […]
Unlike every other national park we’ve visited, there’s no entrance fee for Great Basin National Park. We were surprised by this, but then figured it’s because: 1) the park is in the middle of nowhere 2) it’s in Nevada 3) visiting a national park in the middle of nowhere in Nevada is not high on […]
We were in wildflower heaven this past weekend. Even looking at the photos now, it seems like a dream. Well, except for that six-mile hike that started at 5400 feet and gained 1900 feet in the first three miles. The last 300-foot uphill grind, post-lunch, was more of a forced march. I’ve always wanted to […]
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