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Arches
National Park
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Park
Avenue |
Balanced
Pinnacle |
The
Three Gossips |
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How
arches begin |
Balanced
Rock |
North
& South Windows |
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Turret
Arch |
Double
Arch |
Landscape
Arch |
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Navajo
Arch |
Skyline
Arch |
Delicate
Arch |
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Klondike
Bluffs |
Tower
Arch |
Looking
west from inside Tower Arch |
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Tower
from inside the arch |
Broken
Arch |
Daring
visitor on Broken Arch |
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Wall Arch, located on a
trail a mile or so from the road, collapsed in 2008. Photo at left
taken in 2002; photos on right courtesy NPS |
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Dick
with daughter Teri at Delicate Arch in 2015 |
Massive
shapes above the
wash east of Delicate Arch |
A section of the
Delicate Arch trail
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Sand Dune Arch |
A
close look under Skyline Arch |
Rocks that fell from
Skyline Arch in 1940 |
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This area
has a dozen small man-made arches |
The Penguins keep watch
just above the visitor center |
Precarious
pile of rock |
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View at the Fiery Furnace |
The
Great Wall |
Near
Courthouse Wash |
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Courthouse Wash |
Petrified
Sand Dunes |
Teri and a hardy juniper |
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Tunnel Arch |
Sandstone
formations at the Windows
Area and the La Sal Mountains |
Dead
juniper at Windows Area |
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Another
view of Skyline Arch |
Tourists
entering North Window |
Scrambling
between the fins near Sand Dune Arch |
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Tunnel
Arch from the Pine Tree Trail |
Sandstone
and juniper near Skyline Arch |
Colorful
soil along Salt Valley Road |
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Courthouse
Tower |
A
close view of Courthouse Wash |
Towers
like this are scattered throughout the park |
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Moon
and sandstone, March 2019 |
A
fantastic "growth" in the Devil's Garden |
The
Three Gossips look down on Sheep Rock |
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The
La Sal Mountains with the Colorado River canyon in foreground
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A wide
view of Landscape Arch |
Formations
along the park road |
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Sandstone
cliffs across the road from the Petrified Dunes
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A
misty,
mysterious view of Landscape Arch
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Sandstone
panorama from Devil's Garden Trail
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Tunnel
Arch, with a small un-named arch to the left |
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Looking
across from Balanced Rock toward the Windows Section, La
Sal Mountains in the background |
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Sandstone
takes on fantastic shapes near Double Arch |
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A
tourist contemplates the amazing formations across the road from
Courthouse Tower |
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Skyline Arch stands out in this distant panoramic
view from the Salt Valley Road
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Dramatic
sandstone panorama, with Colorado River gorge in foreground |
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The
Fiery Furnace |
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The
shapes of the junipers are endlessly fascinating |
Formations
near Tower Arch |
Eye
of the Whale Arch |
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Arches
National Park Official Site |
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Canyonlands
National Park
More Information |
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View from Visitor
Center |
Mesa Arch |
View from White
Rim Overlook |
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White Rim and
Monument Basin |
Near
Visitor Center; LaSal
Mountains in background |
Shafer Trail |
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Another section of the
trail |
White Rim Road, 1200 feet
below the plateau |
View through Mesa
Arch |
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Another small arch in
the
canyon below Mesa Arch |
Cryptobiotic
soil
along the Mesa Arch trail |
The Green River |
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Temporary runoff waterfall
in Canyonlands Park |
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Unexpected hail on the road
as we drove out of the park |
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The
Monitor and the Merrimac - buttes on BLM land on the highway to
Canyonlands |
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Another view
of the White Rim and Monument Basin
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Canyonlands
National Park
Official Site
KC Publications
- Interpretive Books about America's National Parks |
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Zion
National Park |
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The photos here of Zion and Bryce
Canyon National Parks were taken on a trip with my daughter Teri in
October, 2017. Words cannot describe these amazing places, and even
the pictures offer only a pale imitation. All but the last of the Zion photos are in Zion
Canyon, where the Virgin River runs from The
Narrows to the southern park border at Springdale.
For the written report on this trip, plus many
more photos, click here.
To jump to the Bryce photos on this page click here. |
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This
cliff, right across the Virgin River from our campsite, went through a
series of changing colors as the sun went down each night |
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View from
along the Pa'Rus Trail |
Contrasting
colors and shapes as
seen from the Emerald Pools Trail |
A series of
four peaks from the Emerald Pools Trail |
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Cactus reminds
us that this is desert country |
Water falling
into the lower Emerald Pool |
View from just
above the lower pool;
upper pool is against the cliff in the center |
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Bigtooth
maple provided spots of brilliant scarlet throughout the park |
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Looking out
from the darkness of
the Emerald Pool side canyon
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The Virgin
River shines in the late afternoon sun |
Cliffs near
Zion Lodge |
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Juniper along
the final section of
the Emerald Pools Loop Trail
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Hanging
gardens along the Riverside Walk |
We saw at
least a half dozen
different flower species |
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Cliffs above
the Sand Bench Loop |
Ponderosa pine
and bigtooth
maple offer contrast along Highway 9 |
Teri steps
into the Virgin River to hike the Narrows |
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No place to
walk but in the water |
In the Court
of the Patriarchs |
Another
view |
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Zion
National Park Official Site |
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Bryce
Canyon National Park |
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The photos here of Zion and Bryce
Canyon National Parks were taken on a trip with my daughter Teri in
October, 2017. Words cannot describe these amazing places, and even
the pictures offer only a pale imitation. The Bryce
Canyon views are along the rim between Bryce Point and Inspiration
Point, and along the Navajo
Loop Trail.
For the written report on this trip, plus many
more photos, click here.
To jump to the Zion photos on this page click here. |
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You've
been warned! |
Looking
down a narrow slot below the rim |
The
"balanced rock" formation at
center left is Thor's Hammer |
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Another
view of the Hammer |
Odd
shapes along the Navajo Loop |
Looking
up from the loop |
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This
would make a good castle |
Teri at
the natural bridges |
More
sandstone towers |
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View
across the canyon from the rim |
View
from Bryce Point |
This is
probably rabbit bush |
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Views
from the Rim Trail between Inspiration Point and Sunset Point |
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Highway
12 tunnel at Red Canyon |
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Weathered
cliffs at Red Canyon |
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Panoramic view
from Navajo Loop |
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Panorama of
Red Canyon cliffs
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Bryce
Canyon National Park Official Site |
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Capitol
Reef National Park |
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Vertical fractures give this formation a unique
look
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The snow adds a frosted white
layer to the red and
gray sandstone
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Snow
under the junipers in Capitol Reef |
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Sandstone
formations along the Fremont River |
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Panoramic
view from the park road west of visitor center |
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View
along the park road |
The
trail into Capitol Gorge |
Sandstone
columns in groups of two to five |
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Capitol
Reef National Park |
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Dinosaur
National Monument
More
Information Slide
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Turtle
Rock in Dinosaur National Monument |
Another
turtle rock? |
Josie Bassett
Morris' cabin |
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Box
canyon where Josie corralled her cows |
Multicolored
rock near Split Mountain Area |
The
Green River near Split Mountain area |
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Actual
apatosaurus skull fossil
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Bones in
the dinosaur fossil quarry
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Another
rounded sandstone cliff |
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At the
entrance to Sound of Silence Trail |
A rare
shady spot on the trail |
View from the petroglyph
trail |
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Sheer
cliffs adjoin the Green River |
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Endless
variety of shapes and color |
Tilted
layers |
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Without
the trees, it would be a moonscape |
Just
like the back window of an SUV
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The
masterpiece, it probably
took months to etch this lizard
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The lizard is visible above
the trail to the petroglyphs |
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Flute player,
a common figure
in southwest native culture |
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Cliffs along
the Green River |
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Entrance
to the Sound of Silence Trail
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Elsewhere in
Utah |
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Sedimentary rock
east of
Salt Lake on Interstate 80 |
Sheep Creek Canyon |
Flaming Gorge Reservoir |
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Canyons and
Uintas Mountains, northern Utah |
Colorado River from Dead Horse
Point State Park |
Colorado River along Utah
Highway 128, Northeast of Moab
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More sandstone cliffs by the
river |
Sandstone
formations along I-70, eastern Utah |
Pass on
I-70 through San Rafael Reef |
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Signs
at San Rafael Reef highway construction site |
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San Rafael Reef, eastern Utah |
Looking
south from highway |
Eagle
Canyon |
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Looking
east from Eagle Canyon view point |
Formations
near Eagle Canyon |
Navajo Lake on Highway 14 |
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Natural bridge, Utah Highway 14
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Another
view of natural bridge |
Cliff west
of bridge |
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Highway 14,
looking west toward Cedar City |
Notch
Peak |
Along
US 6 in western Utah |
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Rock formations along US 6 |
Wasatch
Mountains above Springville, UT |
In Price Canyon on US 6 |
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Another
view along Price Canyon |
Old
cabin on US 191 |
Castle Valley Vista Point on I-70 |
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More
views
at Castle Valley Vista Point |
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Panoramic
view into Black Dragon Canyon |
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Panoramic
view from above Black Dragon Canyon
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Ghost
Rock view |
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A
view at Castle Valley |
View from Ghost Rock Vista |
Another
Ghost Rock view |
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View at Eagle Canyon Vista |
Colorado
River below Red Cliffs
Lodge |
Buttes across the highway
from the lodge |
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Runoff
from a storm created this one-day waterfall |
I-70 through the San
Rafael Reef
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Mountains in Fishlake National
Forest along I-70
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Snowy mountains south of
Goblin Valley State Park
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Scattered hoodoos in Goblin
Valley
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Snowy summit on Utah Highway 20
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More
Highway 20 snow
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Sipapu Bridge, Natural Bridges
National Monument
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Wilson Arch, south of
Moab
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Storm
over sandstone ridge
along Utah Highway 95
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Related Links |
Markagunt
High Plateau Scenic Byway
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Navajo
Lake
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Arches
National Park
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Canyonlands
National Park
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Dinosaur
National Monumewnt |
Bryce
Canyon National Park |
Zion
National Park |
Capitol
Reef National Park |
Dead
Horse Point State Park |
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