On our way west, we learned of Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. We missed it while touring the National Parks in Utah, so we made a point to camp there on our way back east. The park is quite small, but the kids had an absolute blast there. The park is named for a […]

We visited Arches while camped in Moab, UT, which is just outside the Arches NP gate and also provides easy access to Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park. We had a lot of anticipation for Arches National Park. Of all of the national parks in Utah, I believe it to be the […]

Dead Horse Point State Park is just outside of Moab, Utah. The state park is adjacent to Canyonlands National Park and pretty close to Arches National Park, so if you are making a trip to Moab or through Utah’s Big 5, then Dead Horse Point is worth a day trip. Dead Horse Point seems to […]

Capitol Reef National Park is the often-neglected member of Utah’s Big 5 The Big 5 are the five national parks stretching across Utah, including Zion, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Arches, and Capitol Reef. It’s really common for RVers to visit these five parks over a few weeks in a loop, leaving Las Vegas in a rented […]

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 […]