Someone once said a picture is worth a 1000 words, so I figured in the Travel Category of this blog I will let the pictures do the talking ..
This picture was taken at Canyonlands National Park, located in the southeastern Utah. Colorful Landscape which include The Island in the sky, the needles , the Maze , the Colorado River and the Green River add to the attraction of the state that draws millions of people from around the globe. This is the Mesa Arch at Canyon Lands. You can clearly see the La Sal Mountains about 35 miles away and the Colorado River in the canyon 2000 feet below.
This picture of the Natural Tunnel in Red Canyon In Dixie National Forest is located on highway 12 close to Panguitch in southern Utah near Bryce Canyon National Park.
Red Canyon in the Dixie National Forest is a fascinating place with its unique vermillion colored rock formation and strands of Ponderosa Pines all these set against a beautiful blue sky. Different light conditions make for a different scenery as evident from these two pictures.
Red Canyon in Dixie National Forest
This is one of the three tunnels in the Colorado National Monument which is located near the northeast corner of the COlorado Plateau, an arid semi-desert region located between the great Basin of Nevada and the Rocky Mountains . The Average elevation of the entire Colorado Plateau is over 5000 feet.
This picture of the Angels Window of the Walhalla Plateau on the way to Cape Royal, in the North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park is one of the few places in the North Rim from where you can see the Colorado River far (close to 3600 ft) down below.
A picture of Cape Royal with its vast swath of colorfully named buttes in the north rim of the Grand Canyon National Park. On this drive you'll see some of the North Rim's most spectacular scenery and attain the highest vantage point in the park thats reachable by road.
Hidden in the green oasis of Grapevine Canyon in far northern Death Valley- CA, the Death Valley Ranch, or Scotty's Castle as it is more commonly known, is window into the life and times of the roaring 20's and Depression of the 30's. An engineer's dream home, this was a wealthy matron's (Albert Mussey Johnson & his wife Bessie's) vacation home and a man-of-mystery's (Walter Scott / Death Valley Scotty) hideout and getaway. Scotty was the mystery, the cowboy, the entertainer and a friend that convinced everyone that he had built the castle with money from his rich secret mines in the area.
A view of the Scotty's Castle from the top
This is the Artists' Palette in the Death Valley National Park, noted for having various colors of rock. These Colors are caused by the oxidation of different metals (like Iron salts, Mica & Manganese to name a few) on the face of Black Mountains.
Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park is a salt flat that is beneath the face of the Black Mountains that contain the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet below sea level. The Vast expanse of white is almost crystals of pure table salt .
These great breathtaking views are of Capitol Reef National Park located in south-central Utah. Often called the geologic wrinkle on earth, in the heart of red rock country, Capitol Reef NP is a hidden treasure filled with cliffs , canyon, domes & bridges extending almost 100 miles.
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.
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