Carbon County, Utah
Nine Mile Canyon
Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
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Goblin Valley State Park
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."
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Meet the Woman Restoring Native American Peaches to the Southwest
Searching for the precious trees has become Reagan Wytsalucy's calling.
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Pando, the World’s Largest Organism, Is Being Eaten by Deer
Utah's 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones has survived for millennia, but faces threats large and small.
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The Wahweap Hoodoos
Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."
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Springdale, Utah
The Narrows
The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.
Midway, Utah
Homestead Crater
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Richfield, Utah
Pando, the Trembling Giant
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Bryce, Utah
Bryce Canyon
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Moab, Utah
Hole N" the Rock
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Kane, Utah
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Vernal, Utah
Fantasy Canyon
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
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