Category: Travel

Valley of Fire is located about 45 minutes northeast of Las Vegas and is Neveda’s largest state park. The geological wonderland became known as “Valley of Fire” in the 1920s after gaining popularity with...

Although I grew up in Southern California, this is my first visit to Death Valley: my twentieth national park this year. Native Americans inhabited the valley as early as 7,000 BC, but it was...

Located in southeastern California about 40 miles due east of Palm Springs is Joahua Tree National Park. This park is an old friend because I used to camp here annual when I was in...

The Grand Canyon has been occupied by humans for more than 25,000 years. Long before the arrival of European-Americans, the indigenous people of the canyon had established trails, farms, trade routes, and villages in...

Located on the Navajo Nation just east of Page, Arizona is the spectacular slot canyon of Antelope Canyon. There are actually six separate, scenic slot canyon sections with Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons being...

Zion National Park is a secluded canyon where red and white sandstone cliffs of southwest Utah tower hundreds of feet above the Virgin River, which meanders through a network of narrow canyons. Ancient nomadic...

Monument Valley (known as Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii in Navajo) is located in the southern region of the Colorado Plateau and is characterized by a large collection of sandstone buttes. Some of these buttes rise...

Mesa Verde National Park was established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt to preserve the cultural and historic significance of the site. For thousands of years people have traveled through and built thriving communities...

Located in southeastern Utah, Canyonlands National Park preserves a wilderness of rock at the heart of the Colorado Plateau. Over hundreds of millions of years, water and gravity have cut flat sedimentary rock into...

Arches National Park is located eight miles north of Moab in eastern Utah and preserves 76,679 acres of high desert on the Colorado Plateau. First established as a national monument in 1929, Arches National...