Arches National Park The last two weeks of April we traveled to southern Utah for our first visit to all five Utah national parks, a couple of state parks and more. We visited Arches, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, and Canyonlands national parks, the Joshua Tree Forest in the Mojave Desert in southwest Utah, Snow Canyon State Park near St. George, UT; and Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, both state parks are also in the Mojave Desert. The five national parks are a part of the 'Colorado Plateau' a geologic area that has pushed up thousands of feet of sedimentary rock to form a vast kidney shaped plateau covering parts of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. It includes many national parks, national monuments, state parks, and recreation areas, and because of millions of years of geologic forces and erosion has some of the most spectacular scenery in the country. It is hard to describe the beautiful scenery, desert and rock formations that we saw, so we took lots of photos.
Click to see many photos of all of the Utah and Nevada parks that we visited and a little more commentary.
Click to see many photos of all of the Utah and Nevada parks that we visited and a little more commentary.
 Zion National Park |  Bryce Canyon National Park |  Canyonlands National Park |  Capitol Reef National Park |
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