What a glorious day! Kim and I feel blessed to have seen so much beauty in one day! I woke up to a moose wandering the campsite, we hiked back to Hidden Falls in the national park and saw three bears on the way back! Click the link below to
While enroute to Grand Teton National Park from Bryce and Zion National Parks, we took a travel break in the Salt Lake City area. We went to see some of the Salt Lake City area including the Great Salt Lake. It was about a 40 minute drive back to the
We completed our Utah "Big 5" sweep at Zion National Park! It's a beautiful park and one of the most popular. I'm glad we were there fairly early in the season so the crowds weren't so bad. Check out the full article
The areas around Utah's Big 5 National Parks are Dark Sky Country which means they have minimal light pollution and that allows you to get much better views of the night sky. When we were down by Big Bend National Park, TX, we were also in Dark Sky
We hit the 4th of the "Big 5 Utah National Parks" today and Utah hit it out of the park with this one! This park is filled with amazing rock formations that boggle the mind! See our Travels section on our website for more amazing photos! BraysAway Travels
We traveled from Thousand Lakes Campground in Torrey, outside Capitol Reef NP, down to Ruby’s Campground just outside Bryce Canyon NP. We took Utah Scenic route 12 and boy was that a road that lives up to its name! Shortly after we turned on to 12, we began climbing
Utah continues to impress us with its amazing views and crazy geology! We drove the Cathedral Valley Scenic Drive and got what felt like the backstage tour of Capitol Reef! See the details of this and our other stops in our Travel section! BraysAway Travels
Today we headed out for Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite a few miles north of Moab where they’ve discovered many species of dinosaurs’ tracks around what was a watering hole. Pretty cool to see them all congregated there. While we were there, we met a couple who told us about
We've added two more national parks to our travels- Arches and Canyonlands! Arches as the name implies hosts more than 2000 natural arches and Canyonlands as the name suggests is at least in part, a huge series of canyons! Check out our Travels page for more details and
All along this trip while viewing these beautiful places, I have wondered how these monuments, canyons, mesas, buttes and other natural wonders could possibly have been created. We all know about erosion of course and it's easy to just say "erosion" and move on. However, in
Utah continues to wow! We drove Highway 128 Scenic Byway and went up to Dead Horse Point State Park for sunset! I've never seen such varied topography in my life and this region around Moab does not disappoint. There are canyons and arches everywhere and the powerful Colorado
Utah is absolutely incredible! We haven't even seen much of it but I have never seen a place in this country with the wild variety of geography that Utah has! Crazy valleys with huge monuments, meandering valleys, chasms, canyons, buttes, mesas, natural bridges, crazy colored mountains, forests of