Western states are big. It’s one thing to note on a map; it’s another to drive. As I headed southwest from Salt Lake City, Utah unfolded more open, more arid, more spare. The mountains in northern Utah are bluish, topped with lots of white snow. They become more layered further south, red and rocky with… Read More Utah to New Mexico: Road Trip, Part 3
Northern Utah lies nestled at the base of the Wasatch Mountains, which form the western edge of the Rockies. The area includes Salt Lake City, the state capital, and Provo, home of Brigham Young University. This post contains affiliate links. For more information, click here. At the height of Spring, it is carpeted with glorious tulips.… Read More Northern Utah: Road Trip, Part 2
It was hard to believe we were in the desert. With its lush trees and flowing waters, Utah’s Zion National Park looked more like Maine’s 2,000-miles-away Acadia than Nevada’s two-hours-away Valley of Fire, where we’d hiked the day before on the first stop of our side trip from Las Vegas. But the towering walls of… Read More Zion National Park in Utah