Chesler Park is one of my favorite places in Canyonlands National Park. It’s so pretty and awe-inspiring with red and white sandstone towers and hoodoos rimming a desert meadow filled with desert grass and low scrub. Chesler Park is the kind of place where you can sit on a rock and let the wind blow [...]
One evening in May, we decided to drive to the end of Rt 270 from Moab, Utah, to find a place to camp. After the Potash plant, the road becomes dirt, but it’s a fairly good road as dirt roads go out there, so we didn’t have much trouble driving up to a place where [...]
Located just outside of Moab, Utah, it’s surprising that more people don’t know about Hidden Valley. If this scenic desert meadow was inside of one of the national parks in that area—Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, or even Canyon Rims National Recreation Area—it would probably be a popular destination for day hikers and backpackers. [...]
Most people who’ve been to Moab have been to Arches National Park, or have at least heard of it. Many more across the globe have seen pictures of the park’s famed Delicate Arch. However, few have seen, or even heard of, Corona Arch, a magnificent span of rock that really isn’t that far from Moab. [...]
Fisher Towers is a small BLM-managed park just outside of Moab, UT. The main attraction is the thin, red, sandstone “towers” that stand away from a cliff edge. There is a trail that takes you up among the towers, and then to a viewpoint. Many people come out here to climb the towers, but the [...]
Canyon Rims Recreation Area is a fairly small, fairly undeveloped park that overlooks Canyonlands National Park. It can be compared to Dead Horse State Park and Island in the Sky (Canyonlands National Park), but this is better than either one, offering stunning views of the Colorado and Green rivers and the heart of Canyonlands itself. [...]
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