The areas around Utah's Big 5 National Parks are Dark Sky Country which means they have minimal light pollution and that allows you to get much better views of the night sky. When we were down by Big Bend National Park, TX, we were also in Dark Sky
We hit the 4th of the "Big 5 Utah National Parks" today and Utah hit it out of the park with this one! This park is filled with amazing rock formations that boggle the mind! See our Travels section on our website for more amazing photos! BraysAway Travels
We traveled from Thousand Lakes Campground in Torrey, outside Capitol Reef NP, down to Ruby’s Campground just outside Bryce Canyon NP. We took Utah Scenic route 12 and boy was that a road that lives up to its name! Shortly after we turned on to 12, we began climbing
Utah continues to impress us with its amazing views and crazy geology! We drove the Cathedral Valley Scenic Drive and got what felt like the backstage tour of Capitol Reef! See the details of this and our other stops in our Travel section! BraysAway Travels
Today we headed out for Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite a few miles north of Moab where they’ve discovered many species of dinosaurs’ tracks around what was a watering hole. Pretty cool to see them all congregated there. While we were there, we met a couple who told us about
We've added two more national parks to our travels- Arches and Canyonlands! Arches as the name implies hosts more than 2000 natural arches and Canyonlands as the name suggests is at least in part, a huge series of canyons! Check out our Travels page for more details and
All along this trip while viewing these beautiful places, I have wondered how these monuments, canyons, mesas, buttes and other natural wonders could possibly have been created. We all know about erosion of course and it's easy to just say "erosion" and move on. However, in
Utah continues to wow! We drove Highway 128 Scenic Byway and went up to Dead Horse Point State Park for sunset! I've never seen such varied topography in my life and this region around Moab does not disappoint. There are canyons and arches everywhere and the powerful Colorado
Utah is absolutely incredible! We haven't even seen much of it but I have never seen a place in this country with the wild variety of geography that Utah has! Crazy valleys with huge monuments, meandering valleys, chasms, canyons, buttes, mesas, natural bridges, crazy colored mountains, forests of
We visited Monument Valley and Valley of the Gods in southern Utah/Northern Arizona. Absolutely mind-boggling formations and when you hear how scientists believe they formed, it becomes even more mind-boggling! (Hint: There is a lot of missing rock!) See our newest posts on our Travels page for details and
As we headed towards Utah's National Parks we had to drive I-40 from Santa Rosa where we hoped off Hwy 84 to an hour or so west of Albuquerque to get to our next campsite. We stayed two nights at the Sky City Casino Campground which was nice
As you may know we enjoy getting off the interstates to take the highways and byways of America through her small towns to see the quirky roadside attractions that have developed there to promote tourism. This trip was no exception, after a fairly routine drive to Lubbock for the first