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12 Nights

The Mighty 5 & Monument Valley Grand Circle June 01 - June 13 2019 JOHNATHON AND MARYANNE SMITH The perfect vacation for taking an in-depth look at the fascinating culture and unique landscape of this destination, this self-drive journey takes in a kaleidoscope of experiences, and a wealth of fascinating locations. We are excited to present your personalized itinerary which we have crafted following your ideas and requirements. Enjoy!

John Smith 0412 345 678

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EagleRider Mobile Tour Guide Information To access your personalized EagleRider Mobile Tour Guide you can download it from either the Android or Apple Store, straight on your phone or tablet. You will see your entire hand-carved route, hotel information, cool features that will allow you to find local restaurants/gas/entertainment, as well as a bunch of awesome points of interest along your route that you can check out! We encourage you to download it before the tour to have a chance to review it and become comfortable with the app.

• Android Click here • For Apple devices, just search for “Eaglerider Mobile Tour Guide” on the apple store

Your Activation Passcode: 8041 If you’d like to use your app on your tour, you can bring a handlebar phone mount. This app can be used with, or without data, with your GPS on. You will need to have a data package in order to access live turn-by-turn directions to certain points of interest, as well as searching for local restaurants/ gas stations/entertainment, live on google. Have fun playing around on your tour app and reading up on all the cool things you will get to do and see on your tour. If you have any questions before your tour begins, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Please keep in mind that the route might deviate slightly from the mobile Tour ap, as the Guides might have to adjust the daily routes due to different circumstances.

Tour Photos to Share Share your experience while on the road! During your tour, your Guide will take daily photos of your group at various stops along the way. The Guide will upload these every day (when possible) so that you can share these with your family and friends around the world. The photo-sharing program we use is called SmugMug. To access these photos, go to eaglerider. smugmug.com, click on the Tours folder, navigate to the name of your tour and select the folder with the date of your tour. These folders will also have the name of your Tour and Van guides. For example, if you are on a Sept 2 RT66 tour, and Joe and Moe are your guides, the folder would be under Tours > RT66 > 2019 > SEPT > Sept 3 – Joe and Moe All of the photos are available to you to load onto your personal devices.

NOTE: SmugMug has an option to Download any of the photos in full resolution but you must pay for that service! You don’t need to do that.

Simply copy and paste any of the images onto your device.

Contact information for your tour guides:

Tour Leader: Daniel Johnson Mobile: 951-271-1471 Email: dj4mexico@hotmail.com

Van Driver: April Johnson Mobile: 760-419-8371 Email: aprilj@protonmail.com

Tour Leader: Stefano Trampetti Mobile: 818-802-0323 Email: stefano@eaglerider.com

Van Driver: Andreas Gapinski Mobile: 310-866-7440 Email: berlinizer@gmail.com

Medical and Emergency Contact Information - Driver & Passenger 1. Do you have any special Medical conditions of which your Tour Guide should be aware?

2. Are there any special Medications you will be taking on the Tour?

3. Are you allergic to any medications or do you have any other serious allergies of which your Tour Guide should be aware?

Please provide information for at least one Emergency Contact.

This information will be kept with your Tour Guide.

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Itinerary 12

Nights

Saturday, 01 June 2019 – Thursday, 13 June 2019

Date

Description

Sat 01 Jun 2019

Flight from London UK to Salt Lake City, Utah USA – BA 008

Please check in 2 hours prior to departure.

DEPARTURE: London, UK, Sat Jun 01 2019 10:30AM ARRIVAL: Salt Lake City, Utah USA, Sat Jun 01 2019 12:30PM AIRLINE: British Airways FLIGHT DURATION: 2:00 hours

Sat 01 Jun 2019

Salt Lake City

Often called one of the most liveable cities in the United States, Salt Lake is full of parks, museums and activities for families.

Sat 01 Jun 2019 - Sun 02 Jun 2019 1 Night

Hotel RL by Red Lion – Salt Lake Downtown Standard Room

Located 5 minutes’ driver from Temple Square, this hotel is set in Salt Lake City, Utah, and features on-site dining, an outdoor pool and mountain views.

Sun 02 Jun 2019

Moab, Arches, & Canyonlands

Moab has become the “slick rock” capital of the world, with world-class mountain biking, jeeping, and hiking in its rocky desert terrain.

Sun 02 Jun 2019 Wed 05 Jun 2019 3 Nights

Big Horn Lodge Standard Room

Located in the Heart of Canyonlands and just 4 miles from Arches National Park, is one of Moab’s finest lodging accommodations, the Big Horn Lodge.

Wed 06 Jun 2019

Monument Valley

Made famous by western movies and John Wayne, the Monument Valley is one of the most photographed places in America.

Wed 05 Jun 2019 Thurs 06 Jun 2019 1 Night

Kayenta Monument Valley Inn

Located on the largest Indian Reservation in the United States, The Kayenta Monument Valley Inn offers 163 guest rooms all with wireless high-speed internet access, satellite DIRECTV, an onsite health and fitness facility, seasonal heated outdoor pool, and a full service restaurant featuring both authentic Native American cuisine and traditional American Dining.

Sat 08 Jun 2019

Capitol Reef National Park

Located in south-central Utah in the heart of red rock country, Capitol Reef National Park is a hidden treasure filled with cliffs, canyons, domes, and bridges in the Waterpocket Fold, a geologic monocline (a wrinkle on the earth) extending almost 100 miles.

Thurs 06 Jun 2019 Sun 09 Jun 2019 3 Nights

Broken Spur Inn & Steakhouse

Enjoy an up-close view of the unique and remarkable canyonlands from every room at this motel. After a long day of exploring, our motel’s cozy rooms and comfortable amenities will help you relax.

Sun 09 Jun 2019

Bryce Canyon National Park

A sprawling reserve in southern Utah, is known for crimson-colored hoodoos, which are spire-shaped rock formations.

Sun 09 Jun 2019 Tues 11 Jun 2019 2 Nights

Bryce View Lodge

Bryce View Lodge is set in the perfect location for your visit to Bryce Canyon National Park, nestled in the historic Ruby’s Inn compound.

Itinerary 12

Nights

Saturday, 01 June 2019 – Thursday, 13 June 2019

Date

Description

Tues 11 Jun 2019

Zion National Park

Utah’s first national Park, Zion offers hiking, camping, backpacking, climbing, and more, making it a popular summer vacation spot for families and adventurers.

Tues 11 Jun 2019 Wed 12 Jun 2019 1 Night

Tues 11 Jun 2019 Wed 12 Jun 2019 1 Night

Located in Zion Canyon less than a mile from the majesty of Zion National Park in southwest Utah, surrounded by natural beauty near the borders of Nevada and Arizona.

Wed 12 Jun 2019

Cedar City

Cedar City sits one mile + 500 ft. above sea level, where the Markagunt Plateau smashed into the Great Basin. Lifting a desert so far off the ground makes for great outdoorism: every winter sport from December to April, and hiking, biking, camping, glamping, climbing etc. all year round.

Thurs 13 Jun 2019

Flight from Salt Lake City, Utah USA to London UK – BA 456

Please check in 2 hours prior to departure.

DEPARTURE: Salt Lake City, Utah USA, Thurs 13 Jun 2019 10:30AM ARRIVAL: London, UK, Thurs 13 Jun 2019 12:30PM AIRLINE: British Airways FLIGHT DURATION: 2:00 hours

Harley-Davidson® Street® 500 Saturday, 01 June 2019 – Thursday, 13 June 2019 Confirmed PHONE: To Be Defined PASSENGER: 2 Adult(s) JOHNATHON SMITH (Adult) MARYANNE SMITH (Adult) CONFIRMATION: 2423-6591-AU-1 26JUN19 REF: TSTFGE4558 PICK UP: Saturday, 01 June 2019 13:00 PM PICK UP DETAILS: Salt Lake City, BP Service Station, 89 Smith Street, Ph: 08 8936 0600

Your Ride Powered by a Revolution V-twin engine, the Street 500 and 750 are premium Harley-Davidson even though they’re geared toward the budget-minded, entry-level crowd. Just because the price is low doesn’t mean they skimped on quality. The Street siblings come with a steel teardrop tank and fenders covered in the deep, rich color and flawless finish that long ago made Harley-Davidson the benchmark for premium paint on a motorcycle. The cherry on top is the chrome tank badge — not a decal, as you might expect in an economy-priced bike, but a three-dimensional tank medallion — as Harley’s pledge to you that you are riding a premium quality machine.

Note: Motorcycle model is subject to availability.

Engine: Liquid - Cooled Revolution X Vtwin

INCLUSIONS: • Unlimited kilometres.

• GPS. • Concession Recovery Fee (CRF) / Premium Location Surcharge (PLS).

• Vehicle Registration Fee (VRF).

• Loss Damage Waiver (LDW).

• Administration Fee. • Excess Reduction - nil excess ($0).

• Goods and Services Tax (GST).

DROP OFF: Thursday, 13 June 2019 11:30 AM DROP OFF DETAILS: Salt Lake City, BP Service Station, 89 Smith Street, Ph: 08 8936 0600 REMARKS: If so i have booked return for 11.30am as location close at 12pm on weekends’ ESTIMATED RATES ADDITIONAL SUPPLIER INFORMATION: http://bit.ly/2Lh4vCi For full rental terms and conditions please visit: http://bit.ly/2KGdQHl

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah’s cultural, ecclesiastical and political capitol, lies a spectacular selection of the state, at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, with the Great Salt Lake visible to the northwest and the Great Salt Lake Desert to the west.

Often called one of the most livable cities in the United States, Salt Lake is full of parks, museums and activities for families. Settled by an intrepid and resourceful group of Mormons in 1847, the city revolves around Temple Square. All streets radiate from the southeast corner of the square, so that the apparently odd address ‘200 South 300 West’ is readily found two blocks south and three blocks west of Temple Square. The only significant contradictions to this naming system are the streets immediately bordering the square which are called North, South, West Temple and (to the east) Main Street.

Are you wondering about Utah’s unique liquor laws? Salt Lake City is the ‘Mormon capital of the world’ but the liquor laws are by far not as strict as they used to be. In an effort to boost tourism, in 2009 the state of Utah eliminated the private clubs system you might have heard about, which requires customers to fill out an application and pay a fee for the right to enter a bar. Mixed drinks and wine may now be ordered with food in most restaurants between the hours of 12.00pm and 1.00am, beer may be ordered between the hours of 11.30 and midnight or 1.00am. Taverns and beer establishments sell beer from 10:00am to 1:00am. Packaged beer is also available at supermarkets, grocery, as well as convenience stores. The drinks will necessarily be a little weak. The maximum alcohol content is 4% by volume or 3.2% by weight for beer sold in taverns, beer establishments, and stores. The sale of bottled beverages with alcohol content higher than 3.2% is still prohibited except at state liquor stores.

Like many early American settlers the Mormons traveled across the country in search of a place where they could practice their religion without persecution.

Brigham Young once said, “If there is a place on earth that nobody else wants, that’s the place I’m hunting for”. On seeing Salt Lake Valley for the first time, Brigham Young proclaimed to his followers, “This is the right place”. On July 24, 1847, Brigham Young and his first party of 143 men, three women and two children arrived in the valley; they began diverting streams for irrigation, plowing and planting that same afternoon. Within 20 years, more than 50,000 people had migrated to the area.

Six streams run from the eastern Wasatch Mountains down into Salt Lake Valley. These waters were captured and diverted so that every street, every home in the new town had fresh water to irrigate their new crops and fruit trees. The streets are unusually board, as Brigham Young said they should be wide enough for a team of oxen pulling a loaded wagon to be able to turn

around comfortably – something particularly appreciated by 20th century traffic engineers. Unlike most of its mid 19th century contemporaries – all boom towns full of saloons, randy cowboys or miners, and whores – Salt Lake was founded in entirely with long-term, family- and church- orientated values in mind. One famous American travel writer and wit of the time, Mark Twain, commented “We strolled about everywhere through the board, straight, level streets, and enjoyed the pleasant strangeness of a city of 15,000 inhabitants with no loafers perceptible in it; and no visible drunkards or noisy people – a grand general air of neatness, repair, thrift and comfort over the whole”.

By 1849, Salt Lake had become an important stop over for travelers heading west to the gold mines of California. The Mormons wished to be recognized as a state, but still wanted to govern themselves in ways unacceptable to the people back east – strong involvement of the church in matters of state and the controversial practice of polygamy both stirred up much public debate and resentment. The US Army was sent in to sent in to quell the rebellious territory (and, in truth, to disband the fledgling religion), but failed despite repeated attempts over the next two decades. The Mormons continued to colonize more of Utah, starting even to grow their own silk and cotton in the southern parts of the territory in order to be less dependent on trade with the East and West coasts. After years of conflict, Mormon church leaders officially ceased supporting the practice of polygamy. In turn, Mormons were finally allowed to vote and hold elected office in their own territory; soon thereafter, Utah became a state.

By the late 1840s the area’s harvest was nearly destroyed by a horde of crickets. A large flock of seagulls came to the rescue, devouring the crickets and salvaging the crops. In appreciation the seagull was later awarded the designation of Utah’s state bird.

Things To Do & Sights to See Temple Square

Bounded by North Temple, South Temple, West Temple an Main Streets, Temple Square is the symbolic heart of the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. It’s visited by almost 6 million people annually (of whom about 4 million are non-Mormon). All sites and activities in Temple Square are free. There are two Visitor Centres here to introduce you to the square and Mormonism with an excellent variety of displays, murals and audio-visual presentations. The Visitors Centres are located in the north west and south west corners of the square. The starry dome of the North Visitors Centre is highlighted by an 11-foot-tall / 2.4-meter-tall statue of Jesus Christ. Temple Square as well as both of its visitor centres are open daily (9.00 -21.00). Small groups or families need not reserve tours, as tours as can be hosted as you arrive.

The focal point of Temple Square is the Salt Lake Temple an imposing cathedral-like building with six spires that took 40 years to complete. Mormon leader Brigham Young picked this spot just days after the first band of faithful had arrived by wagon train. Early pioneers, all of whom were carving out a tough life from this huge desert, participated in quarrying and hauling huge blocks of granite by oxen from a canyon 23 miles/37 km away.

The temple is the symbol of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and holds the ordinances sacred to the Mormon faith. Unless you are Mormon, with a letter of recommendation from your home bishop, you will not be allowed to enter the temple. Mormon temples are not used for Sunday worship services, which take place instead in thousands of Community Churches. The temples are reserved for marriages, baptisms and other sacred ordinances. On the temple’s highest spire is a three meter high statue to the Angel Moroni, who, according to Mormon beliefs, was the last prophet of the Western Hemisphere.

As an angel, Moroni appeared to the Mormon founder Joseph Smith to tell him of the existence of ancient prophets’ writings on buried golden tablets, which

Smith then copied and based his new religion on.

Directly behind the temple is the Tabernacle, an egg-shaped Dome set above a series of stone buttresses. Brigham Young did not want any post or beams to interfere with lines of sight within the building, so there are no centre supports.

Instead, great wooden beams were steamed and bent to create an arch roof; wooden pins and rawhide were used for nails and walls – an astonishing feature of architecture considering the lack of available supplies. Bench seats and walls were hand painted to look like beautiful wood grains.

The Tabernacle seats 6,500 people. Its 11,623-pipe organ is said to be one of the finest in existence. The acoustics are truly astonishing, one reason the Mormon Tabernacle Choir still calls the dome its home. The choir had it start more than a century ago with the pioneers on the track west to Salt Lake Valley; migrants would sing spectacular songs during the day and hymns at night.

This choir was officially formed within a month of arrival in Salt Lake in 1847.

It now has 360 men and women performers who have, over the years , sung song all over the world. They do a weekly radio broadcast and sing for the public weekly. Individuals do not get paid, and membership are limited to 20 years. Rehearsals open to the public are given Thursday evenings from 19.30 to 21.30. The Sunday radio broadcast is open to the public as well. The program begins at 09.30 but the audience must be seated between 08.30 and 09.15 to avoid interruption of the broadcast. Admission is free. For further information please visit the Temple Square Events Ticket Office, located at door 4 of the Convention Center at 60 West North Temple Street. The ticket office is open Monday - Friday (10.00-17.00) Address: 35 North West Temple Street Phone: 8100 953 143 www.familysearch.org

Things To Do & Sights to See Beehive House

Part of Temple Square, the Beehive House is the older of Brigham Young’s two Salt Lake City residences. The house was home to Young and his family from 1854 until his death. Designed by temple architect Truman Angell, it stands today as a museum offering tours of what life was like for the Young family back in 1855. It’s decorated with period furnishings.

Brigham Young (born 1801) was the second president of the Mormon Church.

Young was placed at the head of the fledgling organization, earning the nickname ‘The American Moses’ by leading the beleaguered church members from Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 to escape persecution. Once in Utah, Young labored tirelessly to establish a civilization in this mountainous, dry region.

overseeing more than 350 settlements throughout present-day Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and Albert, Canada. Stalwart and determined, yet kind and loving, he died in Salt Lake City in 1877. A beehive, the symbol of industry and a reference to Young’s work ethic, sits on top of the house.

The Beehive House is open daily (9.00-21.00). Tours are available during normal opening hours. Please note that the last tour begins 15 minutes prior to closing, at 20.15. Admission is free.

Address: 67 East South Temple Street Phone: (801) 240 2681 www.templesquare.com

He served as territorial governor from 1850-1856 in addition to his role as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ultimately

Mormon Family History Library

Museum of Church History and Art

The largest of its kind in the world, this popular library is located in the block to the East of the Temple Square. Visitors can enquire about their family roots. Finding family roots is important to Mormons, who hold a ‘baptizm of the dead’ for people not baptized in the LDS faith before the founding of the church. The library is open Monday (8.00-17.00), Tuesday (8.00-21.00), Saturday (9.00-17.00). Admission is free.

Address: 35 North West Temple Street Phone: 8100 953 143 www.familysearch.org

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began with six members in upstate New York in April 1830. Persecutions took the church to Ohio, Missouri and Illinois before its massive exodus to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. At the Museum of Church History and Art visitors can relive the story of Mormon pioneers. The museum chronicles the history of Mormonism from the early 19th century to the present. It features numerous hands-on exhibits to enhance your experience, such as covered wagons like those used by the original pioneers.

A model log home demonstrates the look and feel of some of the first houses in Salt lake City.

Visitors can also see an 1830 edition of The Book of Mormon as well as historical films and demonstrations. In addition, the museum offers an extensive art collection. The Museum of Church History and Art is open Monday – Friday (9.00-21.00), Saturday (10.00-18.00), closed Sundays.

Admission is free.

Address: 45 North West Temple Street Phone: (801) 240 3310 www.ids.org/churchhistory/museum

Things To Do & Sights to See State Capitol

Exchange Place Historic District On Main Street, between 300 and 400 South Street, is Exchange Place Historic District, which once served as the city’s non-Mormon commercial center. The district, which in its heyday ranked among the West’s major financial areas, includes nine neoclassic buildings dating back to the 1900s.

Address: 42 East Exchange Place Phone: (801) 535 7700 www.slc.gov/historic-preservation/ historic-districts-and-buildings

Built between 1912 and 1916 of unpolished Utah granite and Georgia marble – and restored and earthquake-proofed from 2004 to 2008 – the Utah State Capitol, considered one of the finest of examples of Renaissance Revival style in the West, rest on a hill in a beautifully landscaped 40-acre park. The state symbol, the beehive, is a recurring motif both inside and out. Inside are a main hall and rotunda, wall and ceiling murals, a state reception area and exhibits about Utah’s 29 counties. The State Capitals is open Monday to Friday 7.00 20.00) and Saturday and Sunday (8.00 to 18.00). Guided tours are given every hour on the hour between 9.00 and 16.00. They begin inside the east doors of the Capitol on the first floor and last approximately one hour. Those who don’t want to take a guided tour are welcome walk through the building on their own.

Admission is free.

Address: 350 North State Street Phone: (801) 538 1800 www.utahstatecapitol.utah.gov

Classic Cars International Auto Museum

Tracy Aviary One of the world’s oldest public aviaries, it was begun in 1938 by banker Russell Tracy. More than 400 birds from around the world can be seen, including 135 species (some endangered).

A free flying bird show, offered during the summer, explains how these creatures live.

Tracy Aviary is open daily (9.00 - 17.00).

Admission: $7. It’s located in Liberty Park (the south-west section of the park).

Address: 589 East 1300 South Phone: (801) 596 8500 www.tracyaviary.org

Cathedral of the Madeline

A collection of antique, classic and special interest cars are on display at this museum, which is actually a private collection, not a museum in the traditional sense of the word.

The collection changes continually since a lot of the vehicles on display here are for sale; vehicles previously shown at the museum included a 1906 Cadillac ‘Tulip’ roadster, a 1929 Duesenberg and a 1936 Packard. Refer to the website for current admission prices and hours of operation.

Address: 355 West 700 South Phone: (801) 322 5509 www.classiccarsintl.net

Discovery Gateway If you are traveling with children, you should plan a stop at the Discovery Gateway Museum.

Children can play a marimba, make a stopmotion animated video, or engineer a paper plane to throw in a wind tunnel. The museum also features a child-size grocery store where kids can be both shoppers and checkers and an outdoor ‘flight to life’ exhibit with a real helicopter now serving as a simulator. Refer to the website for current admission prices and hours of operation.

Address: 444 West 100 South Phone: (801) 456 5437 www.discoverygateway.org

Constructed between 1890 and 1926, this Catholic church possesses some of the most beautiful stained glass windows in North America, created in 1906 by Zettler Studios of Munich, Germany. Architects Carl Neuhausen and Bernard Mecklenburg combined a predominantly Romanesque exterior with a Gothic interior. The total cost for construction was $344,000.

A $9.7 million renovation begun in 1991 substantially enhanced and strengthened the structure. The renewed building was rededicated on February 21, 1993 and the cathedral is listed on both the Utah and national registers of historical places. The Cathedral of Madeline is open Monday - Sunday (7.3021.00). Admission is free. Guided tours are available.

Address: 331 East South Temple Street Phone: (801) 328 8941 www.saltlakecathedral.org

Hotel RL by Red Lion Salt Lake City 1

Night

Sat, 01 June 2019 – Sun, 02 June 2019

Premium Room Located 5 minutes’ driver from Temple Square, this hotel is set in Salt Lake City, Utah, and features onsite dining and an outdoor pool. A gym is located on site. Comfortably furnished, all rooms include free WiFi. Boasting patios with mountain views, rooms at Hotel RL by Red Lion Salt Lake City include cable TV. All en suite rooms include tea and coffee making facilities. A microwave and fridge are provided. At Hotel RL by Red Lion Salt Lake City, Red’s Diner serves traditional American fare and offers craft beer,wine and cocktails. Reminiscent of the 1950s, the café features red vinyl booths and checkerboard flooring. All day dining is offered. RL Coffee Bar offers a full coffee bar and grab-and-go foods.

A shared lounge with games are available for guests to enjoy. The hotel also offers bike rentals.

Directions From 1-15 North:: • Exit on 600 South and stay in the right lane • Follow 600 South to West Temple • Hotel RL Salt Lake City, 161 West 600 South,

This hotel offers a free transfer service from Salt Lake City International Airport, 11.4 km away.

Salt Palace Convention Center is 15 minutes’ walk from the hotel.

is directly on the right

From 1-15 South:

More information: http://bit.ly/2qmj4Nw

• Take exit 400 South from 1-15 S and travel east • Turn south at 200 West, the left at 600 South • Hotel RL Salt Lake City, 161 West 600 South, is on the right

Service & Facilities Complimetary cot(s)

Valet parking

Address:

Gym

Laundry services (Dry cleaning)

161 West 600 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA

Highchair(s)

Conference room(s)

Bar(s)

Daily (or twice-daily) servicing

Cafe(s)

Airport transfers

Room service

City or local transfers

Complimentary Internet access (Wi-Fi) Self parking

Phone: (801) 521 7373

Check in: Friday, 02 November 2018 02:00 PM

Check out: Tuesday, 06 November 2018 02:00 PM

Salt Lake City - Moab, Arches & Canyonlands

4

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Saturday 01 June 2019

Directions About a half-day drive today, so there are plenty of options for sightseeing along the way as well as afternoon exploration of the Arches National Park.

A. Directly route Leave Salt Lake City on Interstate 15 South. After about 85 miles / 137 km continue on Highway 28 and proceed via Gunnison and Salina to the Interstate. Take 1-70 East and after crossing over the Green River, leave the Interstate and continue on Highway 191 South to Moab. If you arrive fairly early, you should, before driving into Moab, visit the Arches National Park and the Desert Horse Point State Park. Both are just north of Moab and described in the Moab information pages in the next section.

Distance: 230 Mi/ 368 km Travel time: 4 hrs

Things To Do & Sights to See Provo

The Ute Indian tribe reigned in Provo until Mormon leader Brigham Young sent 30 families south from Salt Lake City in March 1849 to colonize the area.

Today, Provo is the second-largest metropolitan area in Utah, and best known as the home of Brigham Young University, the famous university run by the Mormon Church. Its 634-acre campus is dominated by the 112 foot / 34 meter Centennial Carillion Tower, where 52 bells ring at intervals throughout the day.

The Hosting Center offers free 45-minute guided tours of the campus. Tours are given Monday through Friday (9.00-16.00) on the hour. Please call ahead for scheduling Phone: (801) 422 467). Also located on the campus are several museums, among them the Museum of Paleontology, which is said to have one of the top five collections of Jurassic dinosaur fossils in the world. Admission is free. Opening hours: Monday to Friday (9.00 - 17.00). The museum is located at 1683 North Canyon Road Phone: (801) 422 3680.

The nearby mountains offer rugged hiking and climbing, and great skiing at Sundance, the ski resort owned by Robert Redford. High on the rocky slopes of

Utah Lake State Park

American Fork Canyon, in the shadows of Mount Timpanogos, sits Timpanogos Cave National Monument with its three spectacular limestone caves. As visitors journey toward the cave entrance, they will ascend to more than 1,000 feet in elevation, where they will find incredible views of American Fork’s tree-lined canyon. Tours of the caves are all guided by a park ranger and last about 1 hour.

The hike to the top can be quite strenuous. Touring the cool 450 F (80 C) and wet caves requires some bending and crouching. Cave tours are available throughout the day. Stop at the visitor center for more information. The visitor center is located in American Fork Canyon on Highway 92 just 10 miles / 16 km east from interstate 15. Opening hours: Daily (7.00-17.30) May through Labor Day Weekend and daily (8.00-17.00) after Labor Day until the caves close for the season, usually in November. Admission: $6 Canyon, $7 Cave Tours.

Reservations for cave tours are recommended. The tours are limited to 20 people and can fill up rather quickly, especially on weekends and on holidays.

Phone: (801) 756 5238.

Springville Museum of Art

Utah Lake has the largest body of fresh water in the intermountain region. It is a popular place to boat, participate in water sports, fish or just to have a picnic. Admission: $9 per vehicle. Utah Lake State Park is open year round. Hours: Daily (6:00 – 22:00) during the summer and daily (8:00 – 17:00) during the winter.

Address: 4400 West Center Street Phone: (801) 375 0731 www.stateparks.utah.gov

South of Provo lies Springville, a town of about 25,000 that likes to refer to itself as ‘Utah’s Art City.’ The main street is dotted with bronze statues, and the town hosts its namesake art museum, the Springville Museum of Art, Utah’s oldest museum. Housed in a historic Spanish Colonial Revival style building, the museum showcases collections ranging from the days of the pioneers to contemporary art in nine galleries. Admission is free. The Springville Museum of Art is open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday (10:00 – 17:00), Wednesday (10:00 – 21:00) and Sunday (15:00 – 18:00); closed Monday.

Springville is also home to the Springville World Folkfest, a week long celebration of folk dance and music held every July at the outdoor amphitheater in the Spring Acres Arts Park. Each year folk dance groups travel from around the world to participate in this festival.

Address: 126 East 400 South, Springville, UT 8466 Phone: (801) 489 2727 www.smofa.org

Moab Moab has become the “slick rock” capital of the world, with world-class mountain biking, jeeping, and hiking in its rocky desert terrain.

of liquor per person on any table. There are two microbreweries, Eddie McStiffs (57 N. Main St.) and Moab Brewery (686 S. Main St.), which serve decent 3.2% beer.

What is slick rock? Come back in a rainstorm and you’ll quickly find out. When dry, the layers of hard sandstone around Moab offer wonderful “grip” surfaces for biking and walking. However, rain – and humans – just slide off when the rock is wet. Not so many years ago, Moab was a sleepy little town with only one restaurant and few places to buy a beer. Then the mountain biking craze took over the sports world and Moab boomed. You can now challenge yourselves physically all day and still have a relaxing evening in a decent restaurant or brewery.

For your orientation: There are a few historical buildings in Moab from its early days as a Mormon settlement, mostly done in blocks of local sandstone or old adobe. As in other Mormon towns, the streets are laid out and numbered to radiate from the first church. An address such as “206 N. 340 West,” therefore, means that the building lies 2 blocks north, 3 blocks west of the original Church of Latter Day Saints. The first LDDS church was built in Moab in 1888.

Moab is a place for doing things, for exploring the beautiful natural setting by bike, jeep, boat, or foot. If you plan on spending your time in this area, be sure to get out of your car and go for at least one walk in Arches or Canyonlands.

Speaking of breweries...have you yet wondered about Utah s unique liquor laws? Though they change almost every year (usually becoming less restrictive, not more), the laws basically prohibit the sale of bottled beverages with alcohol content higher than 3.2% except at state liquor stores. You can usually get served some kind of alcohol in restaurants, though mixed drinks (anything other than beer or wine) can only be served at dining tables, not at the nearby bar where the drinks are being prepared. These drinks will necessarily be a bit weak, as the law dictates that there will never be more than 1 oz (28.35 grams)

There is a very good visitor information center downtown, which is cooperatively staffed by different local representatives. They will be able to answer questions about Arches, Canyonlands, and other area attractions and activities. Refer to website for current hours of operation.

Address: 25 East Center Street, Moab Phone: (435) 259 8825 www.discovermoab.com/visitorcenter.htm

Things To Do & Sights to See Jet Boat Tours or Jeep Tours

Mountain Biking Moab is one of the mountain biking capitals of the world. If you re tired of driving and want some exercise, there are several stores in town that will rent you bikes and helmets. Many trails lead over the famed slick rock and may be very steep. If you wish to try the famed “Slick rock Trail,” we recommend you begin on the practice loop. If you are not accustomed to this type of terrain, it can be challenging. Be prepared: it will undoubtedly be hot, and you will need at least 2 to 3 liters of water for even a moderate ride. The stores have maps and other suggestions on where to go, depending on your ability level.

Various companies offer tours into Canyonlands, a really nice alternative way of seeing that wonderful place. One that we have used offers four-hour jeep or boat trips, or full-day trips combining the best of both with a guide: Tag-A-Long Expeditions. Reservations are recommended.

Address: 452 North Main Street Phone: (800) 452 3292 www.tagalong.com.com Canyonlands by Night: another excellent introduction to Canyonlands, particularly as it’s in the cool of the evening. Jet boats leave at about sunset for a tour of the Colorado River. If you choose, you can also have dinner on the premises before the river trip.

Address: North of the Colorado River Bridge at the Old Mission Store Phone: (800) 394 9971 www.canyonlandsbynight.com

Fisher Towers It may be that you recognize these towers as they have been the shooting locations for many western films and television commercials. The Fisher Towers, located 20 miles/32 km northeast of Moab, are the most photographed site along the Colorado River. The colossal red rock peaks are accessible via a 3 mile / 4.8 km gravel road.

Visitors who want to take a closer look at the towers can follow the 2 miles / 3.2 km long trail starting from the picnic area at the end of the road.

Address: Moab, Utah

Arches National Park Arches National Park is full of delightful, fairly short hiking trails that wander across slick rock and up under some of the fabulous rock arches.

Wan 18 mile/29 km road winds into and back out of Arches, so you may choose to also see some sights on the return leg, time allowing. When on a trail, please do not step off it. This area is so dry (averaging only 200 to 400 mm a year), and vegetation so sparse, that a single set of footprints across the fragile soil can damage it for years. Believe it or not, this desert ground can be quite fertile if left untouched and undamaged by human vehicles and footprints; but it will just crumble to dust if disturbed. In particular, signs request that you stay off of dirt that has a slightly crusty, black-edged look to it – an area that is desperately trying to hold together enough nutrients to begin growing little plants. We have listed a few of the stops in Arches; you may well choose to do more, depending on your time frame. We are assuming that you will have three to four hours in this park. As with all red rock country, the light on the rocks is best right at sunrise and sunset. There is a $10 fee per vehicle or $5 for all individuals on foot, motorcycle or bike. These fees are good for 7 days. www.nps.gov/arch/ index.htm Brochures are also available in Dutch, German, French, Italian and other languages. www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit/brochures.htm.

More than 2000 arches – aptly called windows in rock – have been found in this national park. An arch must have an opening of at least 1 meter to be considered for inclusion on this list. Arches are caused by the slow and monotonous effects of wind and rain and snow combining to cause rock to crumble and tumble away from its parent wall. A bit of water seeps into a crack in the rock, freezes, and then expands, eventually causing the weaker side of the crack to break off. Wind eventually sweeps away the debris below the ever-growing arch hole. The smaller arches surrounded by dense rock are called “immature;” as the ratio of hole to framing rock becomes greater, the arches proceed to “mature” then “over-mature.” Eventually, all these arches will fall.

Recently, the famous Wall Arch fell on the desert floor. This was caused by the same natural erosion, which once formed the arch in the park.

Arches should not be confused with bridges (as in Rainbow Bridge on Lake Powell, or Natural Bridges National Monument). Bridges are created by much

more rapid erosion caused by a stream first curving in a “U” shape around a wall of rock and then pounding against it and wearing it thin enough to break through.

But what of the enormous fins here in Arches and near Moab as well? How did they form? Fins are an appropriate enough name: the huge, parallel ridges do look somewhat like the dorsal fins of enormous sharks swimming along in a school. The area lies atop an underground salt bed, which was deposited here by a huge inland sea some 300 million years ago. The sea dried up, leaving deep layers of salt behind. These deposits were then covered over by more than a kilometer of sand and other sediments during millions of years of seas and lakes and rivers coming and going. Salt under such pressure buckles and even liquefies, almost trying to escape the weight of rock.

Such movement shifted the overlying rock, at times thrusting it upwards, at times, dropping it downward into cavities. Additional movement was caused by the extensive faulting through this area with deep, long, and roughly parallel cracks breaking up the miles of rock. At first it might have resembled corrugations in sheets of cardboard. But once blank faces of rock were fissured, erosion took over, wearing ever-deeper ravines between the corrugations and creating freestanding spines or fins of rock. Some fins, comprised of looser sediments, eventually crumbled completely. Sections of others have fallen away, exposing beautiful windows in the rock that expand with age.

The Arches Visitor Center is just inside the entrance gate to the park and gives some good general information. There are interactive exhibits, educational kiosks, and tons of brochures and media to help you learn more about the park.

Refer to website for current admission prices and hours of operation.

Phone: (435) 719 2299 www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit

Things To Do & Sights to See Arches National Park Trails

Moab Fault. As you climb the road into the Park, look down on the highway below. It follows the line of a deep fracture within the earth’s crust: the Moab Fault. This side of the fault went down; the other went up, a displacement of almost 790 meters. As one guide book says, “It’s as though you woke up in a city apartment building one day and found yourself looking into the ground floor of the building across the street, whereas before you’d always looked into the 200th story windows.” Of course, the process wasn’t quite that fast: this displacement took place over more than six million years.

Park Avenue. This stop can wait until you are ready to exit the park. A brief walk will take you to the overlook of an enormous “fin,” or vertical slab, of rock. Fins are described in more detail below.

Petrified Dunes. The vast area of sandstone you see stretching east toward the La Sal Mountains is known as Dune Mesa. The dunes were once pure sand, but then they were buried by other sediments and eventually compressed into rock.

Balanced Rock. Its dimensions are deceiving: the height is 39 meters, with the large boulder on top measuring 17 meters. It weighs the equivalent of 1600 automobiles.

Windows Section. This is a five-mile/eight-km detour that is well worth your time. Six spectacular arches – as well as several that are still forming – can be seen from the road and walked to as well. Paths lead up to Turret Arch and the North and South Window Arches. These are great examples of mature arches: arches that bridge over holes of significant size. A primitive trail leads back to the parking lot around the south end of the South Window. On your way back to the main road, you’ll pass the Double Arch and Pothole Arch areas, which you can also walk to.

Delicate Arch. If you are short on time (or breath), you can see this arch from a distance at the Delicate Arch Viewpoint, a short walk uphill from the parking lot. A deep canyon separates the viewpoint from the arch itself though, so you will get no closer by this approach. If you wish to walk up to the arch, take the trail that leaves from the historic Wolfe Ranch area. Wolfe Ranch was inhabited by a man who came to the desert to cure his tuberculosis in the late 1800s. The well marked trail will lead past this old ranch, across a small footbridge and up onto the slick rock to access Delicate Arch, one of the most photographed arches in the world. Take plenty of water – at least two liters per person in the summer. The climb is steep (you will gain 480 meters) and there is no shade.

This hike, 3 miles/4.8 km, will take between one and three hours roundtrip, depending on your walking speed.

Landscape Arch. Many visitors will be ready to begin the journey back out of Arches at this point due to time constraints. However, some may still be lured

by Landscape Arch, the largest in the Park. The drive is another 6 miles/9.6 km, and then the hike will be an additional 1.6 miles/2.6 km. It is fairly easy, and should take between one and two hours. Landscape Arch measures about 93 meters from base to base; it lost a large chunk of rock measuring more than 20 meters across in 1991, bringing it into the generation of arches known as ‘overmature.’ ‘Fragile’ might be another good word; please do not climb on any arch in the park or outside of it.

Location: Arches National Park www.nps.gov/arch

Canyonlands National Park Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah is just a bit further north of Arches, and is known for its dramatic desert landscape carved by the Colorado River.

The drive to the Visitors Center is 45 minutes or so, though we recommend you detour into Dead Horse Point State Park. Allow a minimum of five hours for this drive or plan on seeing a portion of Canyonlands by boat instead. There is a $10 entrance fee for vehicles or a $5 entrance fee for individuals entering on foot, by motorcycle or by bike.

Canyonlands is an enormous park covering more than 1365 square kilometers.

It is often called the heart of the Colorado Plateau, a vast geological area taking in sections of three western states. There are really three main sections of the park for visiting, the Island in the Sky District near Moab (which is described here), the Needles District, between Moab and Monticello, and the Maze, which quite honestly isn’t near anything. You can get there by boat or by a very, very long drive on rutted four-wheel-drive roads.

One of the paradoxes about dry desert canyons is that they have been carved out by countless eons of rushing water. Canyonlands demonstrates this phenomenon perfectly. From most overlooks of Island in the Sky, you will look out across seemingly endless miles of sun-baked dirt broken into different plateau or table heights, benches, mesas, and buttes. The whole area looks dry most of the year, and is – it receives only about 250-300 mm of precipitation.

One of the foremost desert writers, Edward Abbey said, “It seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in sparseness and simplicity, with a generous

gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock.”

Canyonlands, the heart of Utah’s desert country, was formed by two mighty rivers: the Colorado and the Green. The Colorado trickles into life in the area of Rocky Mountain National Park, north of Denver. The Green began its journey in Wyoming, near the Grand Tetons and merges into the even mightier Colorado right here at the confluence a few kilometers below Grand View Point Overlook to continue on through Glen Canyon (now Lake Powell), the Grand Canyon, Lake Mead, and into California and the Sea of Cortez. These two rivers, and all the periodic streams and snowmelts feeding them, carved out all the canyons before you.

Island in the Sky Visitor Center. Exhibits, publications and information are available, and a park orientation video may be viewed. Bottled water can be purchased here since water is scarce in the park. Hours: Open daily (9:00 – 16:00).

Address: Grand View Point Rd, Moab Phone: (435) 259 4712 www.nps.gov/cany

Things To Do & Sights to See Dead Horse Point State Park

You might go no further than this on your way into Canyonlands (about one-and a- half hours roundtrip from Moab), and yet you’ll still get a feel for the vastness and layered beauty of this area. The park is located on a small corner of the enormous, flat topped mesa that forms “Island in the Sky” – a piece of land suspended between two deep river canyons and cut off from its neighboring plateaus.

river over 600 meters below them. As this is a state park, not a national park, you will have to pay a separate entrance fee to get in. Admission is $10 per vehicle. Hours: Open daily (6:00 to 22:00) in the summer.

Address: Nine miles northwest of Moab on US 191 Phone: (435) 259 2614 www.stateparks.utah.gov/parks/dead- horse

Dead Horse Point is almost like a peninsula, hundreds of meters above any water. You will look out across the Colorado River and into the La Sal Mountains near Moab, the Abajo Mountains near Monticello, and (to the west) the Henry Mountains beyond Lake Powell. And don’t you just love the name?

It’s very western. The story goes that early cowboys trapped a herd of wild horses out on this high point of land, a small area surrounded on all sides by dramatic, plunging cliffs. They took the ones they wanted and left the others to starve, able to see and hear and smell – but obviously not get down to – the

The Island in the Sky District

The Island in the Sky is a walled Mesa in the northern part of Canyonlands National Park. Rightly she got her name: Like an island it rises on the rugged landscape. A scenic drive follows the rim of the mesa, with pullouts at vistas where you get amazing views out over the surrounding country, including rugged canyons that have been carved by the Colorado and Green rivers. In many places the surrounding country is 1,000 feet down, virtually straight down, from the top of the mesa.

Each overlook is spectacular. Be sure, though, to stop at Shafer Canyon Overlook, where a four wheel drive road loops down to the next plateau level some 300 meters below. Mesa Arch is a lovely little one kilometer walk that offers the feel of a more intimate canyon setting. The trailhead is located on a large parking lot along the Grand View Point Road. The path is well marked and easy to find. Buck Canyon Overlook looks off the other side of Island in the Sky, toward the Green River drainage (though you will not see the river from here).

Then at Grand View Point Overlook, about 12 miles/19 km from the Visitor Center, you can either enjoy the view from there or do a 3 km walk out to a further point from which you will actually see the Green River. To the south of Grand View Point lies another district of Canyonlands: The Needles. Tall spires of delicate rock prick the sky there, only about 15 miles away as the crow flies but hours away by mere human conveyance.

Address: Grand View Point Road, Moab Phone: (435) 259 4712 www.nps.gov/cany/planyourvisit/islandinthesky

Big Horn Lodge (MOAB) 1

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Sun, 02 June 2019 – Wed, 05 June 2019

Premium Room Located in the Heart of Canyonlands and just 4 miles from Arches National Park, is one of Moab’s finest lodging accommodations, the Big Horn Lodge. Moab, Utah is also the home to Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park.

Moab is known for its many hiking and biking trails and for many famous Off-Road trails for the OffRoad and ATV enthusiast.

Big Horn Lodge is dedicated to making your vacation to Moab unforgettable! We guarantee every room is exceptionally clean and smoke free. Our staff is ready to provide you with the best service during your stay. For your convenience, Big Horn Lodge allows you to keep your mountain bike in your room. Pet Friendly rooms are also available upon request.

Conveniently located next door is the Moab Grill, a family style restaurant. Stop in and enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner in a warm and friendly atmosphere. We are your one stop shop. Our front desk staff can book any of Moab’s area attractions such as; whitewater rafting, jeep rentals, hummer tours, ATV & UTV rentals, mountain biking tours and rentals, horseback riding, jet boat tours, scenic flights, rock climbing and visiting Moab Giants dinosaur museum and much more.

Directions US-191 North: • Continue on US-191 N / S Main St until you reach your destination on the left

US-191 South: • Continue on US-191 S / S Main St. until you reach your destination on the right

Moab is the place to play and the Big Horn Lodge is your place to stay. Come meet our friendly experienced staff. For family vacations or weekend getaways we have something for everyone!

More information: http://bit.ly/2qmj4Nw

Service & Facilities Complimetary cot(s)

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Address:

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550 South Main Street, Moab, UT 841

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Conference room(s)

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Daily (or twice-daily) servicing

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City or local transfers

Complimentary Internet access (Wi-Fi) Self parking

Phone: (800) 325 6171

Check in: Friday, 02 November 2018 02:00 PM

Check out: Tuesday, 06 November 2018 02:00 PM

Moab, Arches & Canyonlands - Monument Valley

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Directions You’re not covering too much distance today, so there are plenty of options for sightseeing along the way as well as afternoon exploration of the Monument Valley Tribal Park.

A. Directly route Depart Moab on the US Highway 191 South. Follow this South through Monticello and Blanding all the way to Bluff. There you will stay straight to continue on US Highway 163 South. Once you pass Mexican Hat, you will reach the northern border of Navajo Reservation and you’ll drive across the San Juan River on US Highway 163 South to the Arizona Border and Monument Valley Tribal Park.

Distance: 146 Mi/ 235 km Travel time: 3 hrs B. Via Natural Bridges Depart Moab on the US Highway 191 South. Follow this South through Monticello and Blanding. Just south of Blanding, turn right on Highway 95. Pass the intersection for State Road 261 and continue east to visit Natural Bridges National Monument. After your visit, return to the intersection and turn right on Highway 261 South. You will descend from Cedar Mesa winding through the incredible switchback known as the ‘Moki Dugway’ SR 261 will join US Highway 163 South once more just outside of Mexican Hat. Follow the instructions for the direct route the rest of the way.

Distance: 190 Mi/ 306 km Travel time: 5 hrs

Things To Do & Sights to See Edge of the Cedars State Park

The Edge of Cedars State Park Museum protects a Pueblo village that was inhabited from AD 825 to 1125. The site was designated a State Historical Monument in 1970 and a small but excellent museum was opened in 1978.

It concentrates on pre-European peoples of southeastern Utah, particularly the Anasazi. Visitors can climb down a ladder to enter a 1,000-year-old kiva, a chamber, which was built wholly or partly underground and used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites. Further archaeological sites can be found in the back. Upstairs there is an outstanding exhibit of Anasazi ‘black on white’ pottery upstairs. Typically, there’s also a traveling exhibit of local art.

Admission: $5 per person. The Edge of the Cedars State Park is open Monday through Saturday (9:00 - 17:00); closed Sunday.

Address: 660 West 400 North, Blanding Phone: (435) 678 2238 www.state- parks.utah.gov/parks/edge-of-the-cedars

Trail of the Ancients

The Trail of the Ancients is a National Scenic Byway located in the states of Colorado and Utah. The route highlights the archaeological and cultural history of southwestern Native American peoples and traverses the widely diverse geological landscape of the Colorado Plateau in the Four Corners region connecting the Lowry Pueblo in the north with Utah’s Hovenweep National Monument in the west and the Utah Mountain Tribal Park in the east.

It was the first National Scenic Byway that was designated solely for its archaeological sites. The entire route is approximately 480 miles / 772.5 km long and passes Navajo and Ute sites but also offers insights into the life of the early puebloan people, who lived and farmed in the area from about 1 CE to about 1300 CE. Please note that some of the lesser traveled sections of the Trail of the Ancients are unpaved ‘til this day.

Address: Colorado Plateau Phone: (801) 356 9077 www.trailoftheancients.com

Dinosaur Museum Blanding

Walk under the jaws of a Tyrannosaurus and come eye to eye with life size adult and baby dinosaur sculptures. At The Dinosaur Museum, the complete history of the world of the dinosaurs is presented. Skeletons, fossilized skin, footprints, state-of-the-art graphics, and beautifully realistic sculptures present the dinosaurs from the Four Corners region and throughout the globe. There is also a 360-pound (163 kg) meteorite and a fossil tree that is more than 275 million years old. The History Hall of Hollywood Dinosaur Movies features original movie posters. You will also view the latest in dinosaur skin research, which shows startling new aspects to some familiar dinosaurs. Enjoy the displays of dinosaur eggs from around the world, and the baby Protoceratops and Maiasaura sculptures. The Museum is open Monday through Saturday between the hours of 9:00 and 17:00 April 15 through October 15. Admission: $3.00.

Address: 754 South 200 West Phone: (435) 678 3454 www.dinosaur-museum.org

Things To Do & Sights to See Natural Bridges National Monument

Natural Bridges preserves some of the finest examples of natural stone architecture in the southwest. Many features are located alongside the scenic drive that winds through this monument; others can be reached via moderately strenuous descents into the canyons. We recommend you follow Highway 275 (Natural Bridges Road) from the Trail of the Ancients (Highway 95), stop first at the Visitors Center to get familiar with the area and then continue on the 9 mile / 15 km scenic loop that will take you along the rim of this lovely canyon.

You have actually been following the canyon since Lake Powell – in fact, Cass Hite walked up this canyon a hundred years ago and discovered this unique concentration of three natural bridges. Bridges are formed when a river forms a great looping meander, or series of ‘U’s, almost looping back on itself. The walls separating these meanders are eroded by the force of water scraping away at them; some are eventually broken through and the river changes course to go through that new opening, widening it over the centuries. Two of these bridges now are located above actual stream beds.

The first bridge you will reach when following the scenic loop is the Sipapu Bridge. It is the largest and most spectacular bridges of the three bridges in the monument. With a span of 268 feet / 82 meters it is considered the second largest natural bridge in the world. There is an overlook just off the parking lot or a very steep trail with two flights of stairs leading to the base of the bridge.

The name Sipapu is a Hopi term for the opening between worlds.

The Kachina Bridge (Scenic Loop Stop 3) is the youngest of the three bridges and is still being eroded. It’s quite hard to see from the rim. A short trail descends from the parking area along the rim to the base of the Kachina Bridge.

The 0.75 mile / 1.2 km (one way) trail has uneven stone steps, switchbacks and steep sections of slickrock (sandstone) with handrails. It will take about 45 minutes to 1 hour roundtrip depending on your walking speed. Kachinas are the spiritual deities of Hopi.

The Owachomo Bridge (Scenic Loop Stop 4) is the smallest and thinnest of the three natural bridges here and is commonly thought to be the oldest. We may never know for certain, as each of the bridges certainly have eroded at different rates. Regardless of its relative age, it is certainly the most fragile and elegant of the three spans, and an awe inspiring feature of erosion worth a visit. An easy walk descends from the overlook along the rim drive to the base of this bridge.

The hike is only 0.2 miles / 0.6 km long with an elevation gain of only 180 feet / 55 meters. It won’t take longer than 30 minutes. The word Owachoma means ‘rock mound’ in Hopi.

As you drive back toward the Visitors Center to exit the park, you will see two small hills side by side, the so called Bears Ears. They are sacred to many different Indian tribes of this area. As with many natural landforms, the Navajo identify them by legend. Changing Bear Maiden married Coyote against the wishes of her family. Soon, she began changing into a real, mischievous bear. To save her, her brothers killed her and threw away her ears.

Natural Bridges National Monument is open year round. Admission: $6 per car or $3 for individuals entering on motorcycles. The visitor center is open daily (8:00 - 18:00) during the summer and daily (8:00 - 16:00) during the rest of the year.

Phone: (435) 692 1234 www.nps.gov/nabr

Things To Do & Sights to See Goosenecks State Park

Goosenecks State Park offers spectacular views of the goosenecks, officially known as an entrenched meander. Over a distance of one-and-a-half miles / 2.4 kilometers, the San Juan River flows for more than six miles / 10 kilometers through the twists of the entrenched meander. It is a classic case of a “wandering meander� – a riverbed entrenched in a looping pattern before the Colorado Plateau began to rise. When this great plateau buckled, the loops just continued to deepen.

There is an overlook at the end of UT-316 from where you get to enjoy a spectacular view of the river below. Except for that, the state park is largely undeveloped. Primitive campsites with picnic tables are scattered back from the edge of the cliff; vault toilets are available.

in the late 1890s and early 1900s, the strenuous 2.5-mile / 4-kilometer trail used to serve as a supply route for gold prospectors. However, the route proved too rugged even for pack animals. Besides, the gold rush was short-lived in this territory. Today, the trail is mainly used by geologists who analyze the different rock layers in the canyon.

Gooseneck State Park is open 24 hours, year round. Admission for entering the park is $5 per person. The park can be reached by a 4-mile / 6.4-kilometer paved side road (UT 316) that branches off UT 261 a little way north of Mexican Hat. Phone: (435) 678 2238 www.stateparks.utah.gov/parks/goosenecks

There are no developed hiking trails in the park, except for the Honaker Trail, a few miles to the northwest, which provides access to the San Juan River. Built

Mexican Hat

The Valley of the Gods Mexican Hat is a small settlement named after a curious formation nearby consisting of a large flat rock 60 feet in diameter perched precariously on a much smaller base at the top of a small hill. The village itself is small, home to fewer than 100 people and offering few facilities, but the surrounding scenery is exceptional and not often visited, featuring 1,200 foot sandstone cliffs at the edge of Cedar Mesa, deep, layered canyons of the San Juan River, vast sandy desert plains, and a wide valley studded with isolated red rock buttes and mesas

The Valley of the Gods is located at the foot of the Dugway and features rock formations similar to those at Monument Valley, containing tall, red, isolated sandstone mesas and cliffs standing high above the desert floor. The area may be toured via a 17 mile / 27 km dirt road (CR 242) that winds amongst the eerie formations.

The road is rather steep and bumpy in a few places but most of the surface is firm and level. Under normal conditions it should be passable by regular vehicles. But please do check your rental car contract before entering the Valley of the Gods; some rental companies do not allow travel on dirt roads. Do not enter the Valley of the Gods road after the rain. It will take at least an hour to drive through the valley. Plan accordingly. The area is completely undeveloped, so do not enter the road shortly before darkness since it is not safe. After completing the tour you will end up on Highway 163 from where you can easily proceed your trip.

Monument Valley Made famous by western movies and John Wayne, Monument Valley is one of the most photographed places in America.

Like a classic movie star, the valley has a face known around the world. Its beauty is heightened by the drab landscape surrounding it. One minute you are in the middle of nowhere, just sand and rocks and endless sky, then suddenly you are transported to a fantasyland of crimson sandstone towers.

Most of the monument’s names are for obvious physical features: the Right and Left Mittens greet visitors when entering the tribal park; the Three Sisters, Totem Pole and Yei Bi Chei (Navajo for dancers) are groupings of single monoliths; and some animal names like Sitting Hen, the Bear and Rabbit and Rooster are obvious and apt. Others, such as the Merrick and Mitchell Buttes, were named for Anglo prospectors who were warned by the Navajos not to look for silver in the valley; they died when they persisted. Many of the European/ American names given to the rocks are somewhat questionable; most Navajos use different names, depending on why the particular monument is important to them and how it fits into their family history.

The geology of the Monument Valley is a fairly familiar story by now: great quantities of silt were laid down by ancient seas, more sand and silt was blown in from the Ancestral Rockies, all of it was compressed for millions of years and is now eroding away. It is amazing to think that these individual monuments are the only survivors of what once was a fairly solid mass of rock; obviously the survivors had harder surfaces than the rest.

When the Navajos first came to the Southwest, probably in the late 1400s or early 1500s, they found mesas and other traces of an earlier tribe. The Navajos called them ‘Anasazi,’ meaning ‘The Ancient Ones.’ The Anasazi, we now believe, had migrated to northern New Mexico and Arizona by the late 1200s.

There are great views of the valley from the scenic drive along Hwy 163, but to get up close and personal you will need to visit the Monument Valley Tribal Park. You can tour parts of the park in your private car or take a Navajo lead tour to some of the more remote areas. If you decide to tour the valley on your own, please be advised that many roads are off limit to private cars and can only be toured with a Navajo guide since the Monument Valley is their traditional Tribal Park. Please respect their privacy at all times and never take a photograph without permission. If permission is granted, gratuity is expected for the photograph.

The Navajo nation is one of the most successful tribes in the United States – they have the largest reservation by far and the most populous – because

they are masters of adaptation. The Navajo language shows strong parallels to Athapaskan of Canada and Alaska; their religion shows Great Plains influences, indicating a migration through this area at some point in their history; their daily life quickly moved from being hunters and gatherers to adopting the ancient agricultural fields of their predecessors. When the Spanish arrived, bringing with them horses and sheep, the Navajos once more successfully adapted; they became the sheep herders and users of mutton and wool.

The Navajo community in the Monument Valley lives a fairly simple life, albeit with a few modern conveniences. To this day, there is no electricity or running water in the valley. The Navajos chose to preserve the place as a traditional enclave. Although some of the homes may be built out of wood or might even be mobile homes, you will almost always see a traditional hogan nearby if you pay close attention. Made out of red mud, the hogans blend perfectly with their surroundings and are difficult to spot. Notice that the doors always face east to greet the dawn.

Family, clan and religion are all intertwined for Navajos. Strangers first greet one another by establishing their mothers and fathers clans or lineages because those are geographic identifiers. The listener knows immediately the area the person calls home and how they might be related. Clans are matrilineal, with the mother’s line always foremost. Religion is a way of life. Important religious figures and stories of origin spring from this landscape; you can go to the place of emergence or the place where Spider Woman turned the Monster Twins into rocks. The Monument Valley has many stories to tell.

According to the beliefs of the Navajo Nation, birds, animals and bushes have just as much a right to this land as humans do. The land and its resources are shared commodities – the rare springs, the salt deposits, wood for fuel. They are not owned by any one single family but shared by the community.

Note: Keep in mind to bring plenty of water, at least a gallon per person per day, when out in the desert. Rock climbing is not allowed. Visitors should also be on the lookout for spiders, scorpions or snakes.

Hours of Operation: Open May – September (6:00 - 20:00), October - April (8:00 - 16:30). The visitor center is open May – September (6:00 to 20:00), October – April (8:00-17:00). Tribal Park Admission/Ticket prices start from $20 and are subject to change.

Address: Indian Route 42, Oljato-Monument Valley, AZ 84536, USA Phone: (435) 727 5870 www.utah.com/monument-valley

Things To Do & Sights to See Tours

If you want to access the restricted areas in Monument Valley, you will have to take a tour. Navajos guide tourists by horseback or jeep through the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park past the famous Mittens, to director John Ford’s favorite movie locations and to hogans where weavers demonstrate the making of their famous rugs. The money you pay for the tours goes back into the community.

Monument Valley Tours, offers Jeep trips departing from the visitor center. The shortest tour is 1½ hours. Prices vary depending on the season. Please call for more information. Phone: (435) 727 3313 www.monumentvalleytours.net

on the daylight hours. Phone: (435) 727 3213 www.gouldings.com/tours If you want to play John Wayne in your own Western, take a horseback ride.

Both Sacred Monument Tours Phone: (435) 727 3218 www.monumentvalley.net and Black’s Tours Phone: (928) 429 0637 www.blacksmonumentvalleytours.com offer ½ hour to 8 hour long rides starting at $58. Both businesses are Navajo owned, so you will be able to access restricted areas you wouldn’t be able to see on your own. You will also be able to learn about the history of the Navajo people from a native. There’s nothing like seeing the valley from the back of a horse.

A very good tour in reliable buses also leaves from Goulding’s Lodge. The tour is 3.5 hours, leaves twice daily, in the morning and afternoon and allows plenty of time for photography. A multi-media show is included; the imagery is very powerful and the brief ‘script’ is all translations of Navajo chants. Times depend

Goulding’s Lodge & Trading Post

Goulding’s Lodge & Trading Post This 17-mile loop, also referred to as the Valley Drive, is a scenic drive past some of the most popular sites in Monument Valley. It is a dirt and gravel road that starts and ends at the Monument Valley Visitor Center. This is the only part of Monument Valley you can visit without taking a tour. A single loop drive, with stops for photos, should take you about two hours. The road is clearly marked and signs point out the areas you are not allowed to access. It’s a bumpy, dusty road with a very low speed limit, but that’s OK, you want to take your time and enjoy the views.

Goulding’s was originally built in the 1920s as a trading post. During the great economic depression of the 1930s, Harry Goulding went to Hollywood to convince movie moguls to use the valley as a backdrop in their western films. Only a short time later, director John Ford and actor John Wayne put the beautiful valley ‘on the map,’ making it one of today’s most popular scenic destinations in the country. There’s a really nice little museum at Goulding s that explains the history of the Monument Valley. The museum is open yearround with limited hours November through March. The Stagecoach Dining Room offers authentic southwestern and Navajo flavors, and every table has a view. Meals are served by friendly Native Americans who are happy to introduce you to the Navajo Taco, or Mutton Stew on Fry Bread. The restaurant is open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner between the hours of 6:30 and 23:00.

Address: 1000 Lodge Road Phone: (435)727 3231 www.gouldings.com

Wildcat Trail Hiking is also not permitted in the Monument Valley unless with a Navajo guide – with the exception of the Wildcat Trail. This is the only maintained trail within the Navajo Nation in which visitors can hike unescorted. It is a 3.2 mi / 5.1 km roundtrip trail that loops around the West Mitten butte. The trail begins 0.4 mi / 0.6 km from the visitor center. www.visitutah.com/articles/the-wildcattrail-of-monument-valley

Kayenta Monument Valley Inn 1

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Wed, 05 June 2019 – Thurs, 06 June 2019

Comfort Room Welcome to the eighth wonder of the world Monument Valley. You have seen the aweinspiring views in many famous movies such as “Stagecoach”, “Forest Gump”, “Back to the Future III” and more, various television commercials, and countless music videos. Located on the largest Indian Reservation in the United States, The Kayenta Monument Valley Inn offers an onsite health and fitness facility, seasonal heated outdoor pool, and a full service restaurant featuring both authentic Native American cuisine and traditional American Dining! Room service is also available for your convenience.

Our stylish and modern rooms reflect the colors and majesty of Monument Valley. All of our recently updated 163 guest rooms feature cable television, In-room coffee makers, Iron/Ironing Board, Hairdryer, Wi-Fi Internet & Safety Deposit Box available at Front Desk.

Directions Highway 163 South: • Take Highway South to Highway 160 • Turn left • Hotel is located just east of the intersection of Highway 163 and Highway 160

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Highway 160 East: • Travel east past intersection of Highway 160 and Highway 163

Highway 160 West: • Travel west on Highway 160 • Hotel is located west of intersection of Highway 160 and Highway 163

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US-160 &, US-163, Kayenta, AZ 86033t

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Phone: (928) 697 3221

Check in: Friday, 02 November 2018 02:00 PM

Check out: Tuesday, 06 November 2018 02:00 PM

Monument Valley - Capitol Reef National Park

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Fri, 07 June 2019

Directions Today you will be traveling through some of the most beautiful, most desolate and most controversial land America offers. Check your fuel before departing as there won’t be many gas stations on this stretch of your trip.

A. Directly route Take Hwy 163 North from Monument Valley, across the San Juan River (the northern boundary of the Navajo Reservation), and just past the small town of Mexican Hat. Turn west on Hwy 261; it will wind you up the incredible switchback known as the ‘Moki Dugway’ and onto Cedar Mesa. The road will intersect Hwy 95; go west past Natural Bridges National Monument and across the north end of Lake Powell at Hite (do not take the turnoff for the ferry between Halls’s Crossing and Bullfrog; that will just slow you down).

Continue on Hwy 95 to Hanksville; then turn west once more on Hwy 24 to Capitol Reef National Park.

Please note: The Moki Dugway is a very steep, winding gravel road; it’s NOT paved and has no guard rails.

Please use extreme caution when traveling on the Moki Dugway. If you don’t feel comfortable taking this road, you can bypass it by following Highway 163 to Bluff and then Highway 191 North to Highway 95 North.

Distance: 191 Mi/ 304 km Travel time: 4 hrs

Things To Do & Sights to See San Juan River No trip to Bluff is complete without a rafting trip down the San Juan River. One of the major tributaries for the Colorado River, and also the northern boundary of the Navajo Reservation, San Juan River offers a unique view of the area’s spectacular archeology, geology, and wildlife.

Float through the spectacular canyons the San Juan has carved from ancient sandstone and don’t be surprised if you unwind, feel better and lose that nagging feeling to check email.

Moki Dugway The Moki (or Mokee) Dugway it is a graded dirt road that is carved into the cliff edge of Cedar Mesa, with three miles of sharp switchbacks.

The road was constructed in 1958, and given the road’s condition, it’s important for drivers to pay close attention as they are navigating their way through it. Caution is advised for motor homes or vehicles pulling trailers. This road is usually open all year, but it can be closed anytime when the access is not cleared of snow. This route provides breathtaking views of The Valley of the Gods and distant Monument Valley.

Goosenecks State Park

Goosenecks State Park offers spectacular views of the goosenecks, officially known as an entrenched meander. Over a distance of one-and-a-half miles / 2.4 kilometers, the San Juan River flows for more than six miles / 10 kilometers through the twists of the entrenched meander. It is a classic case of a “wandering meander” – a riverbed entrenched in a looping pattern before the Colorado Plateau began to rise. When this great plateau buckled, the loops just continued to deepen.

There is an overlook at the end of UT-316 from where you get to enjoy a spectacular view of the river below. Except for that, the state park is largely undeveloped. Primitive campsites with picnic tables are scattered back from the edge of the cliff; vault toilets are available.

There are no developed hiking trails in the park, except for the Honaker Trail, a few miles to the northwest, which provides access to the San Juan River. Built

in the late 1890s and early 1900s, the strenuous 2.5-mile / 4-kilometer trail used to serve as a supply route for gold prospectors. However, the route proved too rugged even for pack animals. Besides, the gold rush was short-lived in this territory. Today, the trail is mainly used by geologists who analyze the different rock layers in the canyon.

Gooseneck State Park is open 24 hours, year round. Admission for entering the park is $5 per person. The park can be reached by a 4-mile / 6.4-kilometer paved side road (UT 316) that branches off UT 261 a little way north of Mexican Hat. Phone: (435) 678 2238 www.stateparks.utah.gov/parks/goosenecks

Things To Do & Sights to See Prehistoric Ruins

As you enter the deepening canyons in the Lake Powell area, you may see some small man-made rock walls tucked into cliff alcoves or recesses. These could be either dwellings or granaries for food storage made by the pre-European people who inhabited this area until AD 1300.

You are passing out of the Paiute and Shoshone territories and into the Anasazi, or pre- Puebloan, region. The Anasazi were spread widely through this southern section of the Colorado Plateau. Two of the largest collections of cliff dwellings are in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and Canyon de Chelly, Arizona.

From what we can tell, the Anasazi were a peaceful, agrarian people infrequently raided (unlike their Paiute neighbors). This made them be able to put their energies into agriculture, architecture, and trade with peoples as far away as the Pacific and Meso America.

Robber’s Roost

Why they abandoned this region by AD 1300 is still somewhat in question; the primary theory is that it was a combination of drought, overpopulation of a desert area, food shortages; pressure from northern tribes, and also, the pull of their trading partners and neighbors doing well in New Mexico. We believe that they are the ancestors of the Pueblo, Hopi and Zuni peoples.

Phone: 1 800 200 1160 www.visitutah.com/places-to-go/parks-outdoorsw

Highway 12 and Highway 24

The canyons and badlands near Hanksville are part of the ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ legend. Cassidy was from this region of Utah and utilized his knowledge of the area to aid him in his chosen profession. He and his band would ride over to Colorado, rob banks and retreat to these confusing canyons to hide out from the law. The canyons and badlands have acquired the name ‘Robber’s Roost’ as a result. Locals, supportive of their infamous friends and relatives, never turned the band in. However, Cassidy and crew did leave here in the 1880s, supposedly headed for Bolivia.

Grand Gulch, Cedar Mesa Grand Gulch at Ceda Mesa includes some of the best rock art and ancient ruins left by the Ancestral Puebloans (also known as the Anasazi culture). The Anasazi flourished in Grand Gulch between 700 and 2,000 years ago. The fact that so many sites remain – and that they are in such excellent condition – makes Grand Gulch a special area. Grand Gulch is not recommended for first-time or beginner hikers, unless accompanied by someone with more experience. Water is scarce and cell service is non-existent, and hikes to the ruins are long. www.utah.com/grand-gulch

Both Highway 24 and Highway 12 are designated as ‘Scenic Byways’. Under this program, the US Secretary of Transportation recognizes certain roads based on their archaeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational and scenic qualities.

There are 150 such designated Scenic Byways in 46 states. Highway 12, ‘A Journey Through Time Scenic Byway’, has been rated one of the top 10 scenic byways in North America. Nine communities settled by Mormon families in the mid 1800s are situated along the highway, and the towns proudly display their unique heritage. Discover the vast Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and the tranquil beauty of Boulder Mountain interspersed with national forest lands and state parks like you’ve never seen.

Highway 24 is an incredibly scenic drive winding between the Fishlake and Dixie National Forests, through Capitol Reef National Park, between the San Rafael Swell and the Henry Mountains and near the canyons of the Dirty Devil river basin. There is plenty to see on this drive so allow time to explore. www.utah.com/scenic-drive

Capitol Reef National Park Not as crowded as its fellow parks but equally scenic, Capitol Reef National Park is characterized by sandstone formations, cliffs, and canyons created about 65 million years ago when the earth s surface buckled up and folded.

It contains much of the 100-mile long bulge in the earth’s crust called the ‘Waterpocket Fold’, exposing a cross-section of geologic history that is “downright painterly in its colorful intensity”, says the Lonely Planet. Erosion has carved the rock into marvelous shapes, often resembling capitol domes.

Besides the rounded sandstone buttes, the park’s name was derived from the long line of rocky cliffs, which are a barrier to travel, similar to a coral reef.

The park protects the ‘Waterpocket Fold’, as well as the surrounding ecosystems. The buckling of the earth happened 65 million years ago when two enormous tectonic plates collided and began squeezing North American landmasses upward, creating both the Sierra Nevada of California and the Colorado Plateau. Most of the Plateau rose somewhat uniformly, but this section buckled into an additional fold of land or rock. Erosion then began its inevitable task of chiseling and polishing the stone into its present day shape.

The area along the Fremont River was home to native people for centuries, as the petroglyphs or rock art near the present-day highway attest to. The people are called the Fremont and were contemporary to the Anasazi. A major difference in the development of those two cultures, though, was that the Fremont were subject to raids by fierce northern Utah (Uinta) tribes. They were frequently killed or taken as slaves. The crops they planted were stolen or burned. Therefore the culture never blossomed like their southern neighbors.

The Fremont left the area in the 1100s and 1200s.

Mormon pioneers resettled the little canyon in the late 1800s. Twelve families, mostly polygamists, came here to establish a small colony. Most of the fruit trees you see in the orchard date from that time, as do all the older buildings.

You might see cattle as you are hiking or driving around the park. The present park size was only granted in 1971 (formerly it was one-sixth this size). It was provided that grazing in the park would be allowed for the ranchers who had historically done so. Each ranger, as well as one heir born prior to 1971 were allowed to run cattle here for their own lifetime. The Park Service is buying out these contracts bit by bit; almost two-thirds of the grazing has been eliminated.

The desert, though, will take years to regenerate.

There are a couple of options for scenic drives and more than a dozen hikes leaving from Highway 24 which cuts through the park. Stop at the visitor center located just off this highway to pick up detailed park map and brochures.

The center is open daily (8:00 - 16:30) with extended hours (8:00 – 18:00) during the summer season. The visitor center is also the starting point for the park’s own scenic drive. There s a $10 fee per car and a $7 fee per person on foot, motorcycle, or bike for traveling the park’s scenic drive past the Fruita Campground.

Torrey is located just a few miles from the west entrance of the park. If you plan on heading east from here towards Arches and Canyonlands National Park please be advised that there isn’t much to do in Moab in the evening, nor will you have many options for fine dining. So you might want to put together a picnic and enjoy the sunset at Capitol Reef or plan on visiting Natural Bridges National Monument before heading to Moab for the night. The drive from the National Park to Moab will take a little over 2 hours without stops.

Address: South-central Utah Phone: (435) 425 3791 www.nps.gov/care

Things To Do & Sights to See Scenic Drive

Ripple Rock Nature Center Along the scenic drive, you’ll come across this family-oriented educational center. There are ranger-led programs for kids that range in activities from participating in a Junior Ranger program to identifying constellations, looking for insects, spinning wool, and birdwatching to name a few. This is a great place to stop by for a few hours or participate in programs for the whole weekend. The Ripple Rock Nature Center is open between Memorial Day and Labor Day at varying hours.

Address: 281 Scenic Drive, Torrey Phone: (435) 425 3791 www.nps.gov/care/forkids

This 13 mile/21 km drive takes you along the Waterpocket Fold through the heart of Capitol Reef National Park to two water-carved, sheer-walled canyons: Grand Wash and Capitol Gorge. There are a total of 11 stops along this scenic drive, and at the end you will find an easy trail into Capitol Gorge.

By hiking a short way into the canyon, you can see a panel of petroglyph rock art created by a prehistoric tribe of Indians who we call the Fremonts. If you follow the trail only a little further you will reach a place called Pioneer Registry. Early Mormon pioneers carved their names into the rock. Another, quite strenuous, hike continues from here to a towering rock formation known as the Golden Throne. The trail winds up onto the cliffs and ends at a vista with excellent panoramic views. The round trip distance on this spur trail is 4 miles.

The scenic drive is paved and suitable for automobiles of all kinds. Allow at least 90 minutes to complete it.

Goosenecks Overlook & Sunset Point This is a wonderful place to watch the sunset before leaving Capitol Reef National Park.

Gooseneck Overlook and Sunset Point are located at the western end of the park. The access is via a short scenic drive off Highway 24, along the Goosenecks Road to the Goosenecks parking area. Two short trails take off from this spot. A very brief, 800-foot path climbs a gentle slope to the Goosenecks Overlook, while a longer trail heads east to Sunset Point. Both are well-marked, leading visitors to overlook points with astonishing panoramic views.

www.utah.com/scenic-drive www.nps.gov/care/planyourvisit/hiking

Fruit Orchards

Just one mile south of the Visitor Center you will see fruit orchards; cherries, apricots, peaches, pears and apples – originally planted more than 100 years ago. Pioneers established a settlement known as ‘Fruita’ here and successfully grew fruits and many other crops. Relicts remain from the era and are considered important historic features protected by the park. The Historic Gifford Homestead at the heart of the Fruita valley is typical of rural Utah farmhouses of the early 1900s. The house is open during the summer season.

You are welcome to stroll in any unlocked orchard but fruit may not be picked until the orchard is posted as open for picking. Orchards that are open for picking are signed as such. Fruit taken from the orchards must be paid for.

A selfpay station with scales and signs listing fruit prices is located near the entrance of orchards open for fruit harvest. Bring your own bags. www.nps.gov/care/learn/historyculture/orchardscms.htm

Cathedral Valley

This scenic, very remote back-country area is characterized by beautiful sandstone monoliths that some say resemble cathedrals, and have highly descriptive names such as Temple of the Sun, Temple of the Moon, or The Walls of Jericho. Most visitors to Cathedral Valley drive the 57.6 mile (92.7 km) loop clockwise, beginning on the Hartnet Road located 11.7 miles (18.8 km) east of the visitor center on Highway 24 and continuing on that for 27.8 miles (44.7 km) to Hartnet Junction. Turning right (north) onto Cathedral Road and driving 29.9 miles (48.0 km) back to Highway 24 will complete the loop. There are many side trips and hiking opportunities along the way.

Vehicles with high ground clearance, even those without four wheel drive, can usually negotiate the roads without difficulty. The area receives little precipitation (rain or snow), but always check the forecast before heading into the area. Roads may become impassible when wet. The remoteness of the area is a key attraction, however you should prepare accordingly. www.nps.gov/care/planyourvisit/cathedralvalley.htm

Broken Spur Inn & Steakhouse 3

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Thurs, June 06 2019 – Sun, 09 June 20

Standard Room In your search for Torrey Utah Hotels, you’ll find our lodging accommodations to be one of the best values in town! For Capitol Reef Lodging, we are one of the closest properties to that famous scenic drive that leads through the park. Torrey, Utah offers many exciting outdoor activities and attractions. Enjoy an up-close view of the unique and remarkable canyonlands from every room at our motel. After a long day of exploring, our motel’s cozy rooms and comfortable amenities will help you relax. Enjoy the rugged beauty of Capitol Reef National Park, and walk in the footsteps of pioneers, cowboys, and outlaws.

Relax in a comfortable Torrey, UT hotel with high quality rooms and friendly service. Our hotel staff will make sure your needs are taken care of so you can experience a worry free vacation. Rest after a full day of sightseeing around beautiful Torrey, Utah and take advantage of the hotel’s excellent accommodations.

Bring an appetite and your family while staying with us at the Broken Spur Inn. Our steakhouse is now open for the season serving great food in a family environment. As one of the newest restaurants in the area we are excited to serve you and offer a delicious dinner during your stay.

Directions From UT-24 East: • Take UT-24 East. Continue toward N 100 W. Hotel will be on the left hand side.

From UT-24 West: • Take UT-24 West. Continue toward hotel which will be on the right hand side.

From UT-12 East:

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• Take UT-12 East toward FR1429. Turn right onto UT-24 E. Hotel will be on the left hand side.

Service & Facilities Free Hot Breakfast with Room Rate

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955 East SR 24, Torrey, UT 84775

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Phone: (435) 425 3775

Check in: Friday, 02 November 2018 02:00 PM

Check out: Tuesday, 06 November 2018 02:00 PM

Capitol Reef National Park Bryce Canyon National park

3-5 Hours

Sun, 09 June 2019

Directions A short trip today, so take your time and enjoy the sights.

A. Directly route This is the shortest route to Bryce Canyon National Park. Although the distance looks rather short, please be advised that your driving time will be roughly 3 hours. Head west on UT-24 W. Turn left at Hogback Rd. Continue onto Browns Ln. Turn left onto UT-62 S. Turn left onto UT-22 S. Continue onto Johns Valley Rd. Continue onto UT-63 S to Bryce Canyon National Park.

Distance: 112 Mi/ 180 km Travel time: 3 hrs B. Via Natural Bridges Your other option is to follow Highway 12 (A Journey Through Time Byway). This highway is con- sidered one of the most beautiful routes in North America and is a designated scenic byway. It starts in Torrey and runs all the way to Bryce Canyon National Park. Just follow it traveling south through the small towns of Boulder and Escalante until you reach the turnoff for Highway 63, located west of Tropic. Make a left turn onto Highway 63 and proceed to Bryce Canyon National Park.

Distance: 129 Mi/ 208 km Travel time: 3 hrs

Things To Do & Sights to See Calf Creek Fall

Named for its use as a natural pen for calves back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the creek remained relatively unknown as a tourist destination until the formation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, under the Clinton administration.

This is a wonderful, but very hot, hike. Walking between mineral-streaked cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, hikers pass beaver ponds and prehistoric rock art sites en route to the 126-foot-high / 38-meter-high Lower Calf Creek Falls. It is about 4 miles / 6 km to a waterfall, much of it without shade or water. This hike is recommended for spring and fall, but it’s perhaps too strenuous in the summer heat. However, the falls area, once reached, is a delightfully cool, shady haven – well worth the effort.

Anasazi Village State Park

Anasazi Village State Park is located on the site of an Ancestral Puebloan habitation that archaeologists believe was occupied between A.D. 1050 and 1175. This partially excavated and reconstructed village in the heart of Utah’s canyon country consists of almost 100 rooms and was one of the largest Anasazi communities west of the Colorado River. Many artifacts have been uncovered and are on display in the onsite museum.

Admission: $5. Anasazi Village State Park is open daily (8:00 – 18:00) April through October and Monday through Saturday (9:00 – 17:00) during the rest of the year.

Phone: (435) 335 7308 www.stateparks.utah.gov/park/anasazi-state-park-museum

The trailhead for the Calf Creek Falls is at the Calf Creek Recreation area, 14.4 miles / 23 km northeast of Escalante. www.utah.com/hiking/calf-creek-falls-lower

Escalante River

The Escalante River is one of the last completely wild and scenic rivers in the United States. It is a tributary of the Colorado River, formed by the confluence of North and Birch Creeks near the town of Escalante. From there the river flows southeast for approximately 90 miles (140 km). If you were to follow it downstream (kayaking is possible only in the spring of very heavy snow years), you would end up on Lake Powell. The Escalante River was the last river of its size to be discovered in the 48 contiguous US states.

It was first mapped and named by Almon Thompson, a member of the 1872 Colorado River expedition led by John Wesley Powell. Almon Thompson named it after Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Franciscan missionary and the first European explorer of the region. In 1776, Escalante and his Spanish superior Francisco Atanasio Domínguez

left from Santa Fe, New Mexico on an attempt to reach Monterey, California. During this journey, usually referred to as the DominguezEscalante Expedition, Escalante and his companions passed by the Grand Canyon and were the first white men to enter Utah.

The Escalante River draws visitors year-round with its canyoneering potential. During dry months it is a fun river to hike and wade through. During wetter months it offers great tubing, and even kayaking, though the water can be fast and dangerous during periods of heavy rain.

Phone: (928) 608 6200 www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/escalante.htm

Bryce Canyon National Park Graceful spires of pink, yellow, white and orange rock pillars stand like sentinels at the eroding edge of the vast plateau that is Bryce Canyon.

Bryce Canyon is actually not a canyon, but a series of amphitheaters carved by erosion into the eastern face of the Paunsagaunt Plateau. Youthful Bryce sits at the head of the ‘Grand Staircase,’ a series of cliff-steps that descend south about 90 miles to the Grand Canyon and back through 225 million years of geologic time. Here, the pink walls capping Bryce are only about 60 million years old.

The rock in the depths of the Grand Canyon is over a billion years old.

At Bryce, because of the sharp slopes in the amphitheaters and the softness of the young sedimentary rock, the erosion is relatively rapid – about 300 centimeters disappear during the normal lifespan of a human being. Because the different layers of rock have a different hardness, pinnacles erode at different speeds, creating gardens of magical figures. The rock formations contrast sharply with many others of the staircase that descends to the Grand Canyon: instead of massive, ponderous slabs of rock, its pinnacles and spires are almost fragile.

Make sure you experience the sunrise or sunset at one of the many viewpoints within the park. The change of light transforms the scene from grand to breathtaking.

The Paiute people that used to live in this area called these formations the ‘Legend People’. The “Legend People” took many different forms – lizards, birds, other animals. They were once powerful, but did something to anger Coyote. He turned them into rocks: some standing in rows, some sitting down, some holding on to others.

The pillars are also called “hoodoos”. “Hoodoos” may be the corruption of a word brought to this country by the Caribbean and African slave trade of the 1800s. “Voodoo” is translated as spell or witchcraft. It indicates that locals may once have thought of Bryce as a strange and magical place. “Not so”, said the one local, Ebenezer Bryce, who grazed his cattle up here. The only comment attributed to him is that, “It’s a hell of a place to lose a cow.”

One of the ‘endangered’ species (presently protected and breeding like crazy) are the little prairie dogs you’ll see up on the meadow areas by the main road.

They had almost been completely destroyed by local ranchers here in Utah because they dig ground holes that break the legs of running horses and cattle.

They have now re-established a very successful colony of them here in Bryce, as well as outside the park, despite the skepticism of locals.

Bryce Canyon National Park has three dramatically different ecological zones.

It’s a great example of the role elevation plays here in the southwest. For every 330 meters of elevation gained, the temperature cools by 3-5 degrees F. Also, considerably more precipitation falls at even slightly higher elevations. Today, as you drive to the southern end of Bryce and tomorrow, as you drive into some fairly high plateaus, notice the differences in vegetation at different altitudes.

Low lying dry areas have only sparse vegetation, well adapted to extremely warm and dry condi- tions. As you ascend, you move through pinyon and juniper forests, low, scrub-like trees. Higher up the larger evergreens – Douglas Fir and other pines – begin to grow. At over 2600 meters, the lovely white and silver bark aspen begins appearing. And then there are the Bristlecone Pines, trees known to live 3000 or more years. They only reproduce once in their entire lifespan.

Bryce is a long, narrow National Park running from north to south. There are numerous pullouts along the 18 mile long scenic drive to the Rainbow and Yovimpa Point, each one with spectacular vistas. It takes about 30 minutes to drive the road’s length, passing all the major vantage points, such as Bryce Point, Inspiration Point, the Natural Bridge, Paria View, Sunrise Point, Sunset Point and Rainbow Point at the park’s end. Since the overlooks are on the east side of the street, it’s easier to drive south first and then visit the overlooks on the return trip back to the park entrance. If you stop nowhere else, see the stunning Bryce Point.

Bryce Canyon offers a free shuttle from early May through early October. The shuttle begins operation at 8:00, and the last bus leaves Bryce Point at 19:20 and the park Visitor Center at 19:40 (Mountain Daylight Time). Route duration is about 50 minutes, not including stops at facilities and overlooks. The shuttle isn’t mandatory but it can save you time and frustration during the busy summer season.

Bryce Canyon National Park is open all year. Admission is $30 per vehicle or $25 for individuals on motorcycles. www.nps.gov/brca/index.htm

Things To Do & Sights to See Ruby’s Inn

Rainbow and Yovimpa View Point

This lodge has become an attraction by itself; Ruby’s Inn has been around since the early 1900s, run continuously by the same ranching family who originally settled this tract of land. The lodge is home to restaurants, bars, a grocery and a liquor store (a rarity around here) and offers a wide variety of activities ranging from horseback riding to guided ATV rides, also open to non-guests. Call Ruby’s ATV Tours at (435) 834 5232 for information and reservations.

There are three restaurants on the premises: The Cowboy’s Buffet & Steak Room – open year round and reservations are not required. The Canyon Diner features western food and pizza eat in or to go, and is open April to October. Ebenezer’s Barn and Grill located across the street from Ruby’s Inn offers an unforgettable evening of Western Fun, Music and Cowboy food. Open early May to early Oct reservations are recommended and can be booked in advance. Phone: (435) 834 8003. Wednesday through Sunday starting the end of May, Ruby’s also hosts the Bryce Canyon Country Rodeo. The rodeo starts at 7:00 pm and tickets can be purchased at Ruby’s Inn lobby or the Rodeo entrance gate.

Paria View

At Rainbow Point the entirety of the park stretches out before you back to the north. From Rainbow Point area, walk to the southern overlook of Yovimpa Point. Here is one of the places you can get a good look at the sequence of rock layers called the Grand Staircase, whose steps are named for the dominant color of rock. You are standing on the top step known as the Pink Cliffs. Directly below you are the Grey Cliffs. As you look into the distance you can see Molly’s Nipple, which is part of the White Cliffs. Looking down into distant canyons near the horizon, you can just make out some red rock underneath the White Cliffs. This red rock makes up the Vermilion Cliffs. Hidden from view but directly under the towering Vermilion Cliffs are the comparatively diminutive Chocolate Cliffs.

Spending a few minutes at both Rainbow and Yovimpa Points will provide you with a geologic and geographic orientation, and a true appreciation of the unique beauty of this National Park.

Phone: (435) 834 5322 www.nps.gov/brca/planyourvisit/rainbowyovimpa.htm

Bryce Amphitheatre This is the place to watch the sunset. While most of the cliffs and hoodoos of Bryce Canyon do not face the setting sun, Paria View is one exception. Here one prominent and photogenic castle-like hoodoo rises high above the canyon floor to absorb the last rays of the setting sun. Paria is a Paiute word meaning ‘water with elk’ or ‘water with mud’.

The translation varies depending on context

Stretching from Bryce Point to Sunrise Point, Bryce Amphitheatre is a semicircular area of the canyon where the hoodoos, the park’s signature limestone formations, stand like platoons of soldiers or melting sandcastles.

Four overlooks offer some of the parks best views: Sunrise, Sunset, Inspiration and Bryce.

The Rim Trail follows the edge of the canyon, connecting all four overlooks.

and season. www.nps.gov/brca/planyourvisit/paria. htm

Hiking

www.utah.com/bryce-canyon-nationalpark/amphitheater

Helicopter Scenic Flights The views from the rim are great, but the best way to experience Bryce is to hike below the canyon’s rim. We recommend you go from Sunset Point, down Navajo Trail, across on Connecting Trail, and then up Queen s Garden trail to Sunrise Point. The loop is almost 3 mi / 4.8 km, therefore you should allow at least 2 hours for this moderate to strenuous hike. Don’t forget to always carry at least 2 liters of water per person. www.nps.gov/brca/planyourvisit/dayhikes.htm

For a bird’s eye view of Bryce Canyon take a helicopter flight – a once in a lifetime experience. You won’t ever forget that feeling of witnessing one of the most beautiful national parks from the air. Tours are offered in various length and price categories. All flights are narrated and offer breathtaking photography. Contact the flight desk at the Ruby’s Inn for more information.

Phone: (435) 834 8060 www.rubysinn.com/scenic-flights

Bryce View Lodge 2

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Sun, 9 June 2019 – Tues, 11 June 2019

Standard Room Our lodging is nestled at the edge of a pine forest on a high plateau that overlooks the beautiful Bryce Canyon National Park. The Bryce View Lodge offers the finest in Bryce Canyon lodging. Located next to Bryce Canyon National Park on Highway U-63 in Southern Utah, this perfect Bryce Canyon lodging is nestled at the edge of a pine forest on a high plateau that overlooks the beautiful Bryce Canyon National Park.

Our guests enjoy clean, comfortable rooms and full amenities including swimming pools, spas, restaurants and shopping, all located within an easy stroll of Bryce View Lodge. A Bryce Canyon National Park Shuttle stop is conveniently located on-site, offering easy access to and from the park. Bryce Canyon National Park entrance passes are also available. Bryce Canyon horseback rides, wagon rides, rodeo, old fashioned western show and dinner and other Western activities are sure to please you and everyone in your group.

Directions Highway 12 West: • Turn left onto UT-63 S. Turn right onto Center St.

US 89 / Highway 12 East: • Take highway 89 to UT-12 East. Turn right on UT-63.

We’re excited to show off our facilities and we welcome you to Bryce Canyon with a great American Cowboy “Howdy!”

More information: http://bit.ly/2qmj4Nw

Service & Facilities Free Hot Breakfast with Room Rate

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105 Center Street, Bryce Canyon City, UT 84764

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Phone: (435) 834 5180

Check in: Friday, 02 November 2018 02:00 PM

Check out: Tuesday, 06 November 2018 02:00 PM

Bryce Canyon National Park - Zion National Park 2-3.5 Hours

Mon, 10 June 2019

Directions As today’s stretch is rather short you will have time to make a detour to Cedar Breaks National Monument which resembles a miniature Bryce Canyon.

A. Directly to Zion National Park Return to Route 12 and go west. Several miles along, Route 12 will intersect Highway 89; take Highway 89 South to the Mt. Carmel Junction, then continue on Highway 9 West into Zion. Please note: Vehicles wider than 7 feet 10 inches / 2.4 meters (including mirrors) and / or higher than 11 feet 4 inches / 3.4 meters must be escorted through the Zion – Mt. Carmel Tunnel. The fee for this service is $15, which includes two trips for the same vehicle within 7 days from the date of purchase. Escorts are stationed at tunnel entrances; hours are posted seasonally. During the winter months advance arrangements for the tunnel escort are required.

Distance: 84 Mi/ 135 km Travel time: 2 Hrs B. Via Cedar Breaks National Monument If you are traveling during the summer, you can drive through Cedar Breaks National Monument. The route will start out the same way as the direct route to Zion National Park, but instead of driving south on Highway 89 you will travel north for 7 miles / 11 kilometers. Once you reach the town of Panguitch, look for the turnoff for Highway 143. Travel west past Panguitch Lake to Highway 148 (Cedar Breaks Scenic Byway). Follow the scenic byway through Cedar Breaks National Monument. Shortly after exiting the monument the highway will meet UT 14. If you travel east on Highway 14, you will reconnect with AZ 89 at Gravel Pass.

Please note that Cedar Breaks Scenic Byway (Highway 148) is only open during the summer. If you are traveling during the early or late summer, call the monument headquarters to check the status of the road before your visit. Phone: (435) 586 9451

Distance: 125 Mi/ 200 km Travel time: 3.5 hrs

Things To Do & Sights to See Red Canyon

The bizarre orange red sandstone formations, with trails winding through them, make Red Canyon a wonderful extension of the rocks in Bryce. The formations line UT 12 for about 4 miles / 6.4 km on the stretch leading through Dixie National Forest. Although you are forced to drive through Red Canyon when approaching Bryce from the west or departing towards the west, most visitors hurry on without stopping, leaving the areas away from the highway usually quiet and empty.

For a closer look at the unique scenery, walk the 3-mile / 4.8 km Losee Canyon Trail, which provides a look at some of the Red Canyon area “crown jewels”.

The trail travels the bottom of Losee Canyon through a rocky, arid landscape of pine and juniper trees, and visits numerous pink limestone hoodoos and alcoves in the canyon walls. You can receive further information on this as well as other available hikes at the visitor information center, located at the mouth of Red Canyon, or at the Red Canyon Trailhead Kiosk, located a short drive east of the visitor center, which accesses five different trails. In this part of the Dixie National Forest, a winding mountain trail was named for Butch Cassidy.

Hatch

Supposedly, after attending a dance in nearby Panguitch, Butch got into a fight with another fellow. He gave his opponent such a hard blow that he figured he’d better get out of Panguitch right away and was able to shake the sheriff chasing him in Red Canyon. The path he took is now called Cassidy Trail.

Several companies guide horseback trips along the trail.

The Red Canyon Information Center is usually open during the summer (Memorial Day – Labor Day). Please call for hours. Phone: (435) 676 2676. Red Canyon is located along Scenic Byway 12, just 9 miles / 14.5 km northwest of Bryce. As part of Dixie National Forest, rather than a national park or monument, there are no entry fees to drive through or hike in Red Canyon.

Please note that bicycle use and horseback are both allowed here, unlike in national parks.

Phone: (435) 865 3700 www.utah.com/red-canyon

Checkerboard Mesa Located about halfway between Bryce and Zion, just south of the junction of Highway 89 and the Scenic Byway 12, is the small town of Hatch.

Hatch is home to a little over 100 people, and a visit feels like a journey back in time. Check out the historic jail in the Riverside Motel parking lot. For lunch stop at Hatch Station at 177 S Main Street, a western style steak house, where all meat is broiled. For some of the best Mexican food in Utah, stop at the family owned Café Adobe at 16 N Main. Portions here are HUGE and are you sure not to leave hungry.

Canyon Overlook Trail The Canyon Overlook Trail is a gem of a hike in Zion National Park. It’s short, it’s fun, and it takes you to an awesome viewpoint overlooking Zion Canyon and Pine Creek Canyon. The trail is located just east of the Zion – Mt. Carmel Tunnel and best visited on your way into or out of Zion.

The trail starts at the ranger booth and is easy, about 1.0 mi / 1.6 km roundtrip. The windy path travels along Pine Creek Canyon and the Zion – Mt. Carmel Tunnel before it ends at the edge of a cliff, allowing a glorious view. The hike will take about 1 hour, depending on your walking speed.

Right outside Zion National Park, Checkerboard Mesa is an approximately 150 million year old petrified sand dune with a unique geometrical pattern on the surface. The majestic crisscrossed mountain appears as a massive hill towering 900 feet / 275 meters above the Zion – Mt. Carmel Highway (Highway 9) and resembles a giant, extended chess or checkerboard. www.utah.com/zion-national-park/checkerboard-mesa

Things To Do & Sights to See Cedar Breaks National Monument

Cedar Breaks resembles a miniature Bryce Canyon. Some visitors say its brilliant colors even surpass Bryce. The Indians called Cedar Breaks the ‘Circle of Painted Cliffs’. Situated at an elevation of 10,000 feet / 3048 meters, Cedar Breaks is shaped like a giant coliseum dropping 2,000 feet / 610 meters to its floor. Millions of years of uplift and erosion have carved this huge amphitheater. Deep inside the coliseum are stone spires, columns, arches, pinnacles, and intricate canyons in varying shades of red, yellow and purple.

The Dixie National Forest surrounds Cedar Breaks providing lush alpine meadows clustered with ponderosa pines and quaking aspens. During the summer months, the wildflower display is spectacular.

The best way to explore Cedar Breaks is to follow Highway 148 (Cedar Breaks Scenic Byway), easily accessible from Highway 14. Admission is $5. Please note that Highway 148 will remain open until significant snow accumulates, which usually occurs in mid-November, and won’t reopen until late May or early June.

Because of the high elevation, summer daytime temperatures at Cedar Breaks are cool, 60-70 degrees Fahrenheit/15.5-21 degrees Celsius. Afternoon and evening thunderstorms are common. Please check the status of the road before traveling to Cedar Breaks.

Phone: (435) 586 9451 www.nps.gov/cebr/index.htm

Zion National Park Designated in 1919, Zion is Utah’s oldest national park and the state’s most popular park, counting almost 3 Million visitors every single year.

The park’s most prominent feature is Zion Canyon. The road’s fork leading into the canyon is located north of Springdale, just past the Visitor Center. As with many of the areas you see in Utah and northern Arizona, Zion’s stupendous rock walls are mostly sedimentary and shale rock formed originally when swamps and streams, then later seas, flooded this area about 170 million years ago.

The entire region – the 10,000 square mile (26,000 square km) Colorado Plateau – began a northwards uplift or tilt about 65 million years ago, and streams that had been casually meandering along suddenly began cutting downwards steeply towards the southern end. Zion Canyon itself was carved by the northern fork of the Virgin River. By now, some of you must be wondering how such a small stream could carve such a deep canyon. Well, it slowly eroded away the top layers of sandstone and exposed a much softer shale layer beneath.

The shale has been undercut by seeps and springs; as it dissolved, great chunks of sandstone above it fell away, slowly widening the canyon.

One interesting example of this is right along the river and road bed of Zion Canyon, just a few hundred meters from the road’s fork. Look across at the opposite bank. Though at first it looks like the aftermath of an avalanche, notice the amount of vegetation still on the hillside: an unusually wet spring in 1994 ate away at the foot of the steep slope right at the water’s edge and the entire section slumped into the river, completely blocking the water’s flow and also destroying the old road on this side. A powerful example of what one small stream can (eventually) do!

Different humans have inhabited the canyon for thousands of years: first the nomadic ancestors of the ‘Anasazi,’ or ancient Pueblo people, then offshoots of the Shoshone tribes called the Paiutes. The Paiutes were subject to domination both by numerous stronger invaders and the Utes, a dominant, aggressive tribe from northern Utah and Western Colorado. The local Paiutes were fairly weak by the time white explorers and settlers moved into the area in the mid 1800s.

A young Mormon rancher, whose homestead was right in the canyon near present-day Zion Lodge, named this place because its grandeur reminded him of a passage in the Bible about Zion, a place in the mountains “where the Lord’s house shall be established.” He, as well as many of his fellow Mormons in the nearby settlement of Springdale, hoped that this might be that place.

Zion ranges over a thousand meters in elevation and contains over 800 native plant species. Differences in these elevations, as well as abundant springs, creeks, deep side canyons and open plateau areas combine to make this the most diverse biologic area in Utah. Seventy five mammals, including four endangered species, make their homes here.

There is a public transportation system serving the area. From mid-March through the end of November, travel in the 15 mile (24 km) long and half a mile (800 m) deep canyon is limited to pedestrians, bicyclists and shuttle buses.

Guests staying overnight at the Zion Lodge will be issued a special permit and are allowed to drive to the lodge; all others need to use public transportation.

Lodge guests may pick up their permits at the fee station at the entrances to the park. These guests will then proceed to the Lodge to check-in and have their permits validated. Private vehicles parked inside the park without valid permits will be ticketed by the National Park Service.

Parking is available at the visitor center located off Highway 9. Riding the shuttle is free. There are two separate loops: the Zion Canyon Loop and the Springdale Town Loop. The canyon buses run as often as every six minutes during the day making eight stops at trailheads and points of interest in the canyon. The roundtrip travel time on the Canyon Loop is about 90 minutes. The town buses run about every fifteen minutes during the day servicing nine stops in Springdale. At the height of the summer season, bus service begins as early as 5:45 and runs until 23:00.

Zion National Park is open year round. Admission/Ticket prices start from $30 per car and $25 per individual on foot, motorcycle or bicycle and are subject to change. www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm

Things To Do & Sights to See Zion Canyon Scenic Drive

The 6 mile / almost 10 km Floor of the Valley Road, better known as the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive, follows the canyon of the North Fork of the Virgin River (Zion Canyon), and leads past some of the most fantastic rock formations in the world, with colorful sandstone cliffs rising 2,000 to 3,000 feet (600 m – 900 m) from the canyon floor. The seemingly mild Virgin River has almost single handedly created this canyon over a period of 13 million years, with much of the work happening during periods of intense flash flooding.

The Zion Canyon Scenic Drive begins at the south boundary of the park and ends at the Temple of Sinawava. It is only open to private vehicles during the winter month; from mid-March through the end of November it is accessible via the Zion Canyon Shuttle only. The shuttle system has been in place since the year 2000 when traffic congestion in the narrow canyon was recognized as a major problem.

Phone: (435) 772 3256 www.nps.gov/zion/planyourvisit

Court of the Patriarchs

Zion Lodge

This is one of several beautiful lodges built by the Pacific Union Railroad in the 1920s in their attempt to stimulate tourism into then-remote Zion, Bryce and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, the Zion Lodge was destroyed by fire in 1966. That same year, the lodge was re-built in 100 days, quickly restoring the influx of visitors to the area, but sacrificing the hotel’s rustic design. In 1990, the exterior was restored to its original classic appearance.

Zion Lodge is the only ‘in-park’ lodging and offers visitors spectacular views of the park’s rock cliffs. Zion Lodge is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Red Rock Grill at the Zion Lodge is a full service restaurant with an open air terrace. The restaurant is open daily.

Phone: (435) 772 7700 www.zionlodge.com

Emerald Pools

The first viewpoint you will pass heading north on the scenic drive is the Court of the Patriarchs, located 1 ½ miles / 2.4 km north of the Canyon Junction. These three photogenic peaks bear the biblical names of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

They are one of the most recognized landmarks of Zion. If you hike the short trail that leaves from the Court of the Patriarchs Viewpoint, you will get a much better view of the sandstone prophets; you may even catch a glimpse of rock climbers camming their way up Isaac’s sheer face.

Temple of Sinawava/Riverside Walk At the end of the scenic drive and the Zion Canyon shuttle line is the orange-walled natural amphitheatre of the Temple of Sinawava. A 1 mile /1.6 km long trail, the Riverside Walk, will take visitors along the Virgin River to the beginning of the Narrows. This easy trail leads into a spectacular section of the canyon and provides a good sense of its steepness; some places the canyon is only 6 meters wide. Along the walk are interpretative signs discussing this particular ecosystem. This is a good place to hear, and possibly see, the canyon tree frog, plus

Immediately across from Zion Lodge is a half a mile (0.8 km) long trail to the Lower Emerald Pool. The trail is paved and easy to walk. It’s one of Zion’s signature trails. If you wish to continue, you can follow the same trail for another mile to the middle pool and then to the upper pool. Please note that the second part of the trail is unpaved. It’s sandy with some eroded spots.

Especially the 3 mile / 4.8 km roundtrip hike to the upper pool is strenuous. All hikes lead to sparkling waterfalls with the upper pool being the largest. A high waterfall comes in from a towering cliff. During runoff, the waterfall can be very dramatic.

Majestic sights can be seen along the way, including views of Lady Mountain, the Great White Throne, Red Arch Mountain and cliffs in all directions. The lower trail is well suited for young children, baby strollers and people in wheelchairs (with some assistance).

the American dipper and other park wildlife. www.utah.com/zion-national-park/emerald-pools

La Quinta Inn & Suites Zion (Springdale) 1

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Tues, 11 June 2019 – Wed, 12 June 2019

Standard Room Our La Quinta by Wyndham Zion Park-Springdale hotel is located in Zion Canyon less than a mile from the majesty of Zion National Park. We’re nestled in southwest Utah, surrounded by natural beauty near the borders of Nevada and Arizona.

Explore the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Dixie National Forest, or take a day trip into Arizona and tour the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon National Park. Amenities including our seasonal outdoor pool, hot tub, and fitness center round out a truly memorable stay in Springdale.

More information: http://bit.ly/2qmj4Nw

Directions From l-15 North:: • Take l-15 North to Exit 16 (Hurricane/Zion National Park Exit) for Hwy 9. In LaVerkin, turn right at the Maverick. Continue on Hwy 9 to Springdale. The hotel is located on the left side of State Rd. 9.

From l-15 South: • Take l-15 South to Exit 27 (Toquerville/ Hurricane Exit) for Hwy 17. Take State 17 to LaVerkin. Turn left at stoplight at intersection of Hwy 9 & 17. Follow Hwy 9 to Springdale. The hotel is located on the left side of State Rd. 9.

Service & Facilities

Address: 792 Zion Park Boulevard, Springdale, UT 84767

Free Hot Breakfast with Room Rate

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Friday, 02 November 2018 02:00 PM

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Tuesday, 06 November 2018 02:00 PM

Zion National Park - Cedar City

1.5 Hours

Wed, 12 June 2019

Directions As today’s jaunt is very short so there’s plenty of time to enjoy the sights.

A. Directly to Cedar City Depart the Zion National Park area on Highway UT-9 West and follow it to Highway UT-17 North. Highway 17 will connect to the Interstate just north of St. George. Proceed north on I-15 to Cedar City.

Distance: 60 Mi/ 96 km Travel time: 1.5 hrs

Things To Do & Sights to See Springdale

Springdale is the South entrance of Zion National Park. The town was founded

by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s. Today, it mainly caters to visitors. The Zion Canyon Giant Screen Theatre, at 145 Zion Park Boulevard showcases Zion and the Canyonlands. The movie Zion Canyon Treasure of the Gods is well-filmed and serves as an introduction to the beauty of Utah. It’s shown daily (15:00, 16:00 and 17:00). Admission: $10. Phone: (435) 772 2400.

Springdale is also the starting point for Zion Outback Safaris, a back country tour of the national park. Expert guides teach about the geology, history, as well as the wild and plant life of the park while touring in a jeep. The tours depart Monday through Saturday (12:00) and Sunday (13:00). Pick ups can be arranged for various hotels in the Springdale area. Admission: starts at $60. Sunset tours are also available, with departure times depending on the season; the tours depart 2 hours before sunset. Call for exact times. Phone: (866) 946 6494.

Admission: $65.

Kolob Canyon

Kolob may be the lesser known portion of Zion National Park but that doesn’t mean it is not as spectacular as the main canyon. The scenery is stunning and provides visitors with peaceful and serene surroundings unmatched by any other national park in the southwest; the word ‘Kolob’ is from Mormon scripture meaning ‘residence closest to heaven’.

Kolob Canyon is located in the northwest corner of Zion National Park. There are two sections: Kolob Terrace, accessible from the town of Virgin via the Kolob Terrace Road, and the Kolob Canyon area, located south of Cedar City and easily reached from I-15, exit 40. Both sections can proudly boast of their magnificent mountains of red sandstone, however, the two area are as different from each other as they are from Zion Canyon.

Kolob Canyon boasts of having the parks highest peak – Horse Ranch Mountain at 8726 feet / 2660 meters. Within the area is Hurricane Fault where layers of ancient rock are clearly exposed. Kolob Arch is accessible via a 14 mile / 23 km

roundtrip trail. At 310 feet / 94 meters across it is one of the largest freestanding arches in the world. If you want to hike to the arch, you will have to take La Verkin Creek Trail to Kolob Arch Trail. The trailhead is at the Lee Pass Trailhead, located between the Kolob Canyon Visitor Center at the entrance of the canyon and Kolob Canyon Viewpoint. If you are looking for a scenic drive through this remote area we recommend you follow Kolob Terrace Road from Virgin to the reservoir. The drive is a little over 20 miles / 32 km and will lead past the Lava Point Overlook.

There’s a visitor center at the entrance of the canyon area, open daily from 8:00 to 16:30 with extended hours during the summer. Kolob Canyon is open all year. Zion National Park admission is $30 per vehicle or $25 per motorcycle.

Phone: (435) 586 9548 www.nps.gov/zion/planyourvisit/kolob-canyons.htm

Cedar City Tourists discovered Cedar City in the 1920s because of its proximity to scenic areas. The city is sandwiched between mountain ranges covered by Dixie National Forest, while further to the southwest lie the remotest areas of Zion National Park, and to the east Bryce Canyon.

Cedar City, with a population of 29,000, is the largest community in Iron County and is located at the mouth of Coal Creek in south-central Utah. Its elevation is 5,800 feet above sea level, and it lies in a semi-arid part of the state with 10,000-foot mountains to the east and a vast desert area to the west.

Settlement began on November 11, 1851, with the arrival of a group of 35 men from Parowan, 20 miles northward, to establish an iron works. Small cottonwood log houses were built fort-style at the western base of the hill. The settlement was given the name of Fort Cedar because of the abundance of trees which were called cedar trees, although, in reality, they are junipers.

As the log houses were completed, families were brought from Parowan. In the meantime, the wagon boxes served as a temporary fort. Later, a site for the fort was selected nearer the proposed blast furnace, at the present city park, which was to have been a company town but was not developed. Two years later (June 1855), another site, close to the blast furnace and out of the floodplain of Coal Creek, was surveyed and occupied at the suggestion of Brigham Young. This is the present site of Cedar City.

Beginning with the demise of the iron works, in 1858, the town’s economy became agrarian in nature although iron mining continued strongly through World War II and into the 1980s. The coming of the railroad to Cedar City in 1923 exposed Utah’s national parks to the world of tourism, and Cedar City was promoted as the “gateway to the parks.” The railroad also provided an outlet for the products of the iron mines.

Currently, the city’s economy is based on tourism, agriculture, some mining activities, some industrial and space-age complexes, and Southern Utah University with an enrollment of 7,000 students. The college was founded in 1897 and in 1968 the state legislature transformed it into a four-year college of liberal arts and sciences with elementary and secondary teacher education programs. On January 1, 1991, it attained university status and its present name.

Southern Utah University is the home of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, which provides a significant economic and cultural infusion to the area. The professional quality of the plays produced each summer, employing talented professionals from all over the United States, is becoming known around the world. The Festival won the 2000 Tony Award for outstanding regional theatre.

The University also sponsors the Utah Summer Games, a sports festival involving some 50 different sports. Other festivals include the Groovefest American Music Festival, the Neil Simon Festival, The American Southwest Classic Film Festival, The Great American Stampede, the Cedar City Livestock and Heritage Festival, July Jamboree, the Utah Midsummer Renaissance Faire, and the Paiute Restoration Gathering, among others. Cedar City has thus also become known as Festival City, USA. Known as ‘Festival City’, a nickname Cedar City earned as host of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the city attracts visitors from all parts of the United States. The festival received a Tony Award in 2000 for outstanding regional theatre and is widely recognized as one of the best professional theater events in the nation.

Cedar City offers visitors a great home base for exploring the area. Golf, skiing, biking and other outdoor recreational activities abound. In the summer, mountain bikers flock to the Brian Head Peak Activity Centre, for challenging runs and spectacular scenery. www.cedarcity.org

Things To Do & Sights to See Frontier Homestead State Park Museum

This museum tells the story of development of the ‘Iron County’ when in the 1850s Brigham Young, the founder of Salt Lake City and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, sent Mormon missionaries to Cedar City to mine and process iron.

Museum displays include horse-drawn vehicles used from 1850 to 1920 and a collection of pioneer artifacts. An iron industry exhibit features the only known remaining artifact from the original foundry – the town bell. In addition to the permanent collections, changing special exhibits highlight artists from the local region, as well as rarely seen artifacts from the museum’s collections.

Other items of interest include several historic cabins, a large collection of horse-drawn farm equipment, and a replicated pioneer household. Open from Monday through Saturday (9:00 to 17:00). Admission: $3. A picnic area is available.

Address: 635 North Main Street Phone: (435) 586 9290 www.state- parks.utah.gov/parks/frontier-homestead

Parowan Gap

A narrow pass traveled by Native Americans for centuries, the Parowan Gap exhibits petroglyphs these ancient people carved on their way through. In 1849, an exploring party led by Mormon Apostle Parley P. Pratt became the first white men to see the petroglyphs. They drew depictions of the chiseled images in their journals. Archaeologists believe the petroglyphs are the work of several different cultures and are unsure exactly what the designs mean. They speculate the images were part of a hunting ritual or a religious activity.

The petroglyphs, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, are not the only distinct aspect of the Parowan Gap. It is an unusual geologic formation – a classic example of a wind gap, where an ancient river cut a 600-foot-deep notch (183 meters) in the red stone. The Parowan Gap is located along N Gap Road.

To get there drive north on Main Street or follow Interstate 15 N. Take exit 62 to Utah High way 130. Continue north for 13.5 miles / 22 km, then turn east (right turn) and continue for about 2.5 miles / 4 km. www.utah.com/parowan-gap

Utah Shakespearean Festival

The Utah Shakespeare Festival is a theatrical festival that performs works by Shakespeare as their cornerstone. The Festival is held during the summer and fall on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City, and produces Shakespearean plays, as well as contemporary pieces, ranging from dramas such as Ernest Thompson’s ‘On Golden Pond’ to comedies such as Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘H.M.S. Pinafore.’ The Festival stages all of its Shakespeare productions at the Adams Memorial Shakespeare Theatre, a replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. The indoor Randall L. Jones Theatre hosts the contemporary plays.

Held in the courtyard south of the Adams Theatre, the Greenshow, which takes place an hour before the Shakespearean productions start, is a good primer to Shakespeare’s works. The free Greenshow production often includes comedic skits, sword fighting, and musical routines with dancing of the Elizabethan period.

During and before the performance people dressed in period clothing walk around the courtyard (green) selling programs, telling jokes, and offering a selection of treats.

The festival also includes backstage tours, seminars, and ‘The Royal Feaste’, a dinner theatre production where guests eat in the style of renaissance noblemen.

Summer performances are held Monday through Saturday, June 28 through August 28; fall performances are held September 16 through October 16. Evenng performances start at 20:00, following the 19:00 pre-performances. Call ahead for schedule. Tickets start at $23.

Phone: (435) 586 7878 www.bard.org

BW Plus Landmark Inn Cedar City 1

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Wed, 12 June 2019 – Thurs, 13 June 2019

Standard Room Guests of this 100% non-smoking, fully remodeled Park City hotel will enjoy getting some rest and relaxation in after a full day of hitting the slopes or exploring the city. Each guest room at this Park City Best Western features plenty of room to unwind in, cable satellite television with HBO® and free highspeed Internet access. For even more luxury and comfort, poolside rooms, two-room family suites, and suites with hot tubs and kitchenettes are available upon request at this Best Western in Park City.

This Park City hotel’s other amenities also include an indoor heated swimming pool, a relaxing hot tub, a fully equipped exercise facility, a Denny’s restaurant and on-site meeting facilities accommodating up to 150 people for our corporate guests looking for a more productive stay in Park City.

Located in the heart of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, and located just minutes away from Deer Valley, The Canyons and Park City Mountain Resort, the Best Western Plus Landmark Inn offers easy access to a variety of summer and winter activities. Hit some of the best slopes in the world for immaculate Park City skiing, snowboarding and more, with freshly fallen, perfect snow during the winter, or visit during the summer for a variety of thrilling outdoor adventures - like hiking, biking, fishing and camping. The Tanger Factory Outlet Stores, Olympic Sports Park and historic downtown Main Street are also nearby for a more relaxing visit.

For the best Park City lodging deals, look no further. The Best Western Plus Landmark Inn is the place to stay, and our friendly, helpful staff and welcoming accommodations will have you coming back again and again.

Directions From 1-80 E: • Take exit 145 and turn right onto UT-224 S • Take 2nd right onto W Ute Blvd • At the traffic circle, take the 1st exit onto Landmark Dr. The hotel will be on the right.

From 1-80 W: • Take exit 145 and veer right and turn left onto • UT-224 S • Turn right onto W Ute Blvd • At the traffic circle, take the 1st exit onto Landmark Dr. The hotel will be on the right.

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Service & Facilities

Address: 6560 North Landmark Drive Park City, UT 84098

Free Hot Breakfast with Room Rate

Valet parking

Gym

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Friday, 02 November 2018 02:00 PM

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Complimentary Internet access (Wi-Fi) Self parking

Tuesday, 06 November 2018 02:00 PM

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