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Canyonlands National Park Is a Sculpted Stone Wonderland. Here Are the Best Hikes to Explore It.

Canyonlands National Park is home to some of the best hikes Utah has to offer. The park is a vast, rugged expanse of high desert in the state’s southeastern corner just outside Moab, where water has ...
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The Mighty Five: a guide to Utah's mesmerizing national parks

The fiery red rock formations, orange hoodoos (fantastical rock columns) and ombre canyons of Utah's national parks are a colorful reminder that, sometimes, nature enjoys showing off. Arches, Bryce ...

Utah funding its national parks; Colorado waiting to see if that will be necessary here, Polis says

While some other states are providing funds to keep their national parks open during the federal government shutdown, the ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Brief but intense political fight led to establishment of Canyonlands National Park

In 1961, Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall called the lands that would become Canyonlands National Park, “acre for acre, the most beautiful country in the world.” He proposed a one-million-acre park ...