Category: Utah
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My New Favorite National Park- Capitol Reef
Capitol Reef National Park is one of the few national parks I never seem to hear about. It’s relatively close to its more famous siblings; Arches, Canyonlands, Zion, and Bryce National Parks, but despite being a part of Utah’s “Big Five” National Parks, I don’t think I’d ever heard the name before we were rolling…
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Top Five Hikes at Capitol Reef National Park
I’m going to start this off by saying that in no way am I an expert hiker. In fact, I think it would be a bit of a stretch to call myself an athletic hiker. Having been born and raised at sea level, the second I start hitting an incline all bets are off and…
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The Photo-Friendly Kodachrome Basin State Park
The bright blue sky and deep reds and oranges of this park were so inspiring to the National Geographic Society that they petitioned Kodak Film Corp to name this Utah park after the popular Kodachrome film of the time. Kodachrome Basin State Park is a small park located just past Bryce Canyon National Park, so…
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Goblin Valley- A Hidden Gem of Geological Delight
Less than two hours from Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park sits the vastly less popular Goblin Valley State Park, Utah. Millions of years of uneven erosion on rock layers of varying hardness caused unearthly mushroom like shapes called “hoodoos”, otherwise known as the Goblins that give this park its name! We didn’t have…