From half-mile jaunts to long backcountry routes, these hikes are a quick way to get to know Utah’s largest national park.

At first glance, the desert landscape of Southern Utah seems like a sweeping, sun-baked canvas — wide open and endless. But ...

Arizona is dotted with several petroglyph sites that you can explore through adventurous hiking trails. The state's rugged ...

The Beehive State is the place to go for outdoor adventures in the United States, and the art of Utah's Great Gallery is the ...

Hiking up to our first petroglyph panel, we were struck immediately ... the highest point in Utah. Turn south just before Myton towards Nine Mile Canyon Road. This route is all paved except for a well ...

Bryce Canyon may be grouped into what’s known as Utah’s “Mighty Five,” but the 20-mile-long national park is impressive in its own right. Home to the greatest collection of hoodoos—spire ...

EMERY COUNTY, Utah — A destructive trend that has ... to contact their Price field office. Discovering the petroglyphs of Nine Mile Canyon below: Discovering the petroglyphs of Nine Mile Canyon ...

and petroglyphs (carvings on rock) are not truly decipherable. That, Northern Ute Elder Clifford Duncan once told me, is because they are from the spirit world. The road leading into Nine Mile Canyon ...

Ten feet overhead in a desert canyon in Utah ... friendly 1.2-mile round-trip off Highway 12, starting from the Escalante River Trailhead 14 miles east of Escalante. Ancient petroglyphs—sheep ...

GRAND COUNTY, Utah — Redge Johnson stood at the fork in a rutted dirt road, gazing across an empty desert at a mammoth red rock butte. To the right curved a route that travelers in 4x4s or off ...

In fact, the canyon’s current roadway was built by African American “buffalo soldiers” in 1886. Nine Mile Canyon contains invaluable historic sites and it is unique in Utah’s landscape.