Archive for May, 2018
Whenever I revisit a national park site, I attempt to do something different. I visit different sites, hike a previously unseen trail or watch a video at the visitor center. At Montezuma Castle National Monument, I had a really easy decision. There are actually two different units at the national monument. Both lay north of […]
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Overlooks
Every national park I have visited has had an overlook. As does most national monuments. The overlook is a staple of those park units. They invariably offer a grand view of a scenic vista. National parks such as Grand Canyon, Zion and Rocky Mountains have an abundance of overlooks and the view from each seems […]
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Zion National Park: Kolob Canyon
Last year I made my pilgrimage to Zion National Park and toured the main section of the park. This past March I returned to Zion with the plan to do something totally different. Kolob Canyon is in the northwestern section of Zion and differs in one significant way from the main park. Here, you can […]
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Compared to the petrified forest portion of the Petrified Forest National Park, the Painted Desert is relatively small. While there are eight stops on the portion of the park I chronicled last week, the Painted Desert only features four stops and one of those is the visitor center at the entrance, or in my case […]
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