Some landscapes feel impressive the moment you pull into a parking lot. Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs asks a little more from you, and that is part of the appeal. The Bureau of Land Management ...

You walk softly and quietly in Buckskin Gulch, not out of reverence but because this long slot canyon is so closed-in, spooky and dark it seems that around the next wild-textured red rock bend you ...

(CNN) — At first glance, the desert landscape of Southern Utah seems like a sweeping, sun-baked canvas — wide open and endless. But tucked deep within its sandstone folds are narrow slivers of magic: ...

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