Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon, Arizona 86023Filed Under: Camping, Cultural, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Paddling, Skiing
The Grand Canyon is more than a great chasm carved over millennia through the rocks of the Colorado Plateau. It is more than an awe-inspiring view. It is more than a pleasuring ground for those who ex ...
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Gunnison, Colorado 81230Filed Under: Camping, Climbing, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Skiing
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison's unique and spectacular landscape was formed slowly by the action of water and rock scouring down through hard Proterozoic crystalline rock. No other canyon in North ...
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Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
Baker City, Oregon 97814Filed Under: Camping, Cultural, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting, Paddling, Skiing
Hells Canyon was designated a national recreation area in 1975. The 652,500 acre canyon has a maximum depth of 7,900 ft making it the deepest gorge in North America. Major attractions are the Snake R ...
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Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon, Utah 84717Filed Under: Camping, Hiking, Horseback, Skiing
At Bryce Canyon National Park, erosion has shaped colorful Claron limestones, sandstones, and mudstones into thousands of spires, fins, pinnacles, and mazes. Collectively called "hoodoos," these col ...
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Ruby Canyon - Black Ridge Recreation Management Area
Grand Junction, Colorado 81506Filed Under: Camping, Cultural, Cycling, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting, Paddling
The Colorado River runs though Ruby Canyon into Utah. Rafting is the primary recreational activity. The canyon is very scenic, but is generally accessible only by river. Directions ---------- F ...
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Canyon De Chelly National Monument
Chinle, Arizona 86503Filed Under: Camping, Hiking, Horseback
At the base of sheer red cliffs and in canyon wall caves are ruins of Indian villages built between AD 350 and 1300. Canyon de Chelly National Monument offers visitors the chance to learn about Southw ...
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Black Hills National Forest
Custer, South Dakota 57730Filed Under: Camping, Climbing, Cultural, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting
The name "Black Hills" comes from the Lakota words Paha Sapa, which mean "hills that are black". Seen from a distance, these pine-covered hills, rising several thousand feet above ...
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Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
Three Rivers, California 93271Filed Under: Camping, Climbing, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback, Skiing
LAND OF GIANTS These parks are home to giants: immense mountains, deep canyons, and huge trees. Thanks to their huge elevational range, 1,500' to 14,491', these parks protect stunningly diverse ha ...
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City of Rocks National Reserve
Almo, Idaho 83312Filed Under: Camping, Climbing, Cycling, Hiking, Horseback, Hunting, Skiing
"We encamped at the city of the rocks, a noted place from the granite rocks rising abruptly out of the ground," wrote James Wilkins in 1849. "They are in a romantic valley clustered tog ...
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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Silver City, New Mexico 88061Filed Under: Camping, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the people of the Mogollon culture who lived in the Gila Wilderness from the 1280s through the early 1300s. The surrou ...
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