Southern Utah: America's Most Scenic Destination
By: Mark Wade Published on: 02/03/2025Southern Utah, with its unique and dense compilation of scenic land formations, including rivers, mountains, pinnacles, plateaus, and byways, is very likely to have America's greatest concentration of natural scenic wonders.
A Dusting of Powdered Sugar: When Snow Comes to Capitol Reef National Park
By: Mark Wade Published on: 01/01/2025Utah is blessed to have five officially designated national parks. The geographic center of Utah's national parks is Capitol Reef, a seventy-mile-long wrinkle in the earth's crust with incredible surrounding landscapes that bear descriptive names...
Paul Bunyan's Woodpile
By: Mark Wade Published on: 02/11/2024Until recently, even after decades of exploring Utah, I was quite unaware of a unique formation found south of the historic mining town of Eureka and west of the city of Nephi. In North America, the imaginary woodcutting character Paul Bunyan is...
The Space Between: See and Do on the Road from Zion to Bryce
By: Mark Wade Published on: 02/09/2024Over the past forty years, I've traveled frequently between two of Utah's most popular scenic attractions, Zion Canyon and Bryce Canyon. The two parks are a mere seventy-five minutes apart in drive time, and within that short distance, there are...
