Planning a trip to a national park or other park unit? If you are traveling to Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, this Traveler’s Checklist can provide a few helpful tips for you to make the most of your visit.
It’s almost the official start of summer, the weather is warming up and the snow is melting. This means the National Park System is busying itself with construction projects around the parks.
Apologies in advance to my brethren in the travel writing industry, and their editors, but your suggestions for national parks to visit this summer are incredibly ridiculous for the most part and most likely to produce a miserable vacation.
Winter, the season with cold, snow, short days and long nights, can be a challenging season to explore the National Park System. Yet it also holds surprises that reveal themselves in shimmering lights darting across the night sky, in tracks of what passed the night before across the snowscape, and in congregations of wildlife.
Winter has officially arrived at Cedars Breaks National Monument, where a snowstorm has prompted the Utah Department of Transportation to close the main road that accesses the colorful monument.
The Southwest is riddled with public lands, and they are riddled with hiking opportunities. Where you go could be as simple as following your sightline into the landscape. But if you're not comfortable with that, it's nice to have a guidebook to help you find your way. This is one option.