The towering hoodoos and red rocks of Bryce Canyon National Park impress and inspire millions of visitors each year. If you are planning a visit to Bryce Canyon National Park, then you could easily find yourself surrounded by as many people as hoodoos. We visited Bryce Canyon for several days overlapping with a weekend, and […]

Zion National Park is a pretty spectacular national park in Utah, with towering sheer cliff faces, narrow slot canyons, and a beautiful river. It’s so spectacular that a few million people visit each year, which means after May and through the summer, the park can be pretty crowded. By midmorning, many of the pull offs […]

We visited Canyonlands last in our travels through the Big 5 national parks in Utah (Bryce Canyon, Zion, Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands). By the time we reached Canyonlands, we’d had our fill of red desert landscape and canyons. We’d already experienced the impressive long range views of Canyonlands and the snaking Colorado River from […]

Thanks to my brother-in-law, we left Bryce Canyon National Park for a quick excursion to Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument to hike through a slot canyon. The hike is called Willis Creek, and the trail is six miles down a dirt road just outside of Cannonville, UT. The canyon floor is relatively flat, and […]