Canyonlands National Park is one of 5 National Parks located in Utah. The park is divided into four sections or districts. Island in the Sky is the most popular and it is located on the north end. The Needles district is located on the southeast end, and the two sides do…
Dead Horse Point State Park is located in southeastern Utah between Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. This state park is know for the beautiful view of the Colorado River and the huge bend. You can also see turns in the river like this at Goosenecks State Park or Horseshoe…
If you find yourself near Moab, try checking out a dinosaur trackway. There are some pretty good dinosaur trails we found in the Moab area: Copper Ridge, Mill Canyon, and Poison Spider. The Copper Ridge Dinosaur Trackway is only a 200 yard walk to see some large dino tracks. It is…
Ghost towns can be found all over Utah, mostly the remains of old Utah mining towns that didn't quite last. Sego cropped up in Grand county in 1910 as a coal town and lasted until about 1955 when trains stopped using coal and dried up much of the demand. Sego is…
Our boys next to some of the Sego Canyon Petroglyphs (pictographs, actually). You can see how large some of the images are here. On a recent trip to Moab, we stopped in the small town of Thompson along I-70 near the Utah-Colorado border. Thompson isn't a very wide spot in the…