A cool-blue snowstorm approaches the distant shadow of Balanced Rock, as viewed from the top of the Fiery Furnace fins yesterday evening in Arches National Park. We woke up to two (more!) inches of powder this morning.
Photo: National Park Service
One of the most #spectacular areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has to be the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah, which spans nearly 1.9 million acres of America’s public lands. From its awe-inspiring Grand Staircase of cliffs and terraces, across the rugged Kaiparowits Plateau, to the wonders of the Escalante River Canyons, the Monument’s size, resources, and remote character provide extraordinary opportunities for geologists, paleontologists, archeologists, historians, and biologists in scientific research, education, and exploration.
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM
Sometimes there are no words to describe the view in our national parks. This photo from Arches National Park is no exception.
Photo: Jacob W. Frank
A waning sun and a waxing moon at Arches National Park. Does it get any better than this?
Photo: Jacob W. Frank
Monitor Butte sails through frosty clouds and over an icy sandstone sea at sunset, just beyond the Canyonlands National Park boundary.
Photo: National Park Service
Canyonlands invites you to explore a wilderness of countless canyons and fantastically formed buttes carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries. Rivers divide the park into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and the rivers themselves. These areas share a primitive desert atmosphere, but each offers different opportunities for sightseeing and adventure.
Photo: National Park Service
How about some trivia today. What famous, yet brief, chase scene was filmed in this area of Arches National Park?
Photo: Stephen Campbell
Visit Arches National Park in Utah and discover a landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures unlike any other in the world. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins and giant balanced rocks. This red rock wonderland will amaze you with its formations, refresh you with its trails, and inspire you with its sunsets.
Courthouse Towers are pictured above.
Photo: National Park Service
Encompassing over 1.2 million acres, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area offers unparalleled opportunities for water-based & backcountry recreation. The recreation area stretches for hundreds of miles from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah, encompassing scenic vistas, geologic wonders, and a vast panorama of human history.
Photo: National Park Service
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