|  Grand Canyon National Park:
Grand Canyon National Park’s vast and rigorous landscape embraces a spectacular array of geological and historical features. This rugged and remote region, where bold plateaus and multihued cliff's run for distances that defy human perspective, offers some of the best hiking in the world. Expanding over 277 miles in length, averaging 10 miles in width and over 1 mile deep, it is understandable why this great chasm is one of the Seven Natural Wonder of the World. Hiking the canyon offers an incredible chance to explore waterfalls, ruins, inconceivable vistas, and spectacular rock formations. With all the Grand Canyon has to offer, one is sure to have a list of unforgettable memories. Even today, this unspoiled natural area remains a frontier.
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Grand Staircase-Escalante/Glen Canyon:
At 1.7 million acres, Escalante National Monument remains one of the most remote and pristine areas in the lower forty-eight states. Completely surrounded by Canyonlands, Glen Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Lake Powell, Capital Reef, and the Dixie National Forest makes the canyons of Escalante the nucleus of an inexpressible area. Escalante National Monument encompasses alpine highlands, expanses of slickrock, towers, natural bridges, arches, peaks, and slot canyons narrowing down to 1 inch wide! Escalante’s diversity represents a unique combination of historical, geological, archaeological, and biological resources unlike any other place. The Escalante region offers more exploring and endless vistas than one could possibly see in a lifetime. Where every corner offers a new mystery or surprise, Escalante truly is a land of endless eloquence and splendor. After a hike here, one will be able to understand why this was the last place in the lower forty-eight to be mapped.
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Canyonlands National Park:
Canyonlands preserves a vast wilderness of rock in the heart of the Colorado Plateau. Water and gravity have been the prime architects of this land, cutting flat layers of sedimentary rock into hundreds of colorful canyons, mesas, buttes, fins, arches and spires. At center stage are two great canyons, those carved by the Green and Colorado rivers. Surrounding the rivers are vast and very different regions of the park: to the north, Island in the Sky; to the west, the Maze; and to the east, the Needles. Each area offers its own special rewards. Few people were familiar with these remote lands and rivers when the park was established in 1964. Prehistoric Native Americans, cowboys, river explorers and uranium prospectors had dared to enter this rugged corner of southeastern Utah. To a large degree, Canyonlands remains untrammeled today. Its roads are mostly unpaved, its trails primitive, its rivers free-flowing. Throughout its 527 square miles roam desert bighorn sheep, coyotes and other animals native to this land. Canyonlands is wild America.
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Grand Gulch/Cedar Mesa Primitive Area:
Cedar Mesa is a broad plateau located in southeast Utah, stretching north from Monument Valley and the San Juan River to the lofty tableland of Elk Ridge. The canyons of Cedar Mesa offer some of the most outstanding hiking opportunities in the Glen Canyon region, yet most of these gorges have few visitors. All of the canyons are carved out of Cedar Mesa Sandstone, which forms great overhanging cliffs, hoodoos, cavelike alcoves and arches. These geological features made great coverage for Ancient Anasazi to build homes of rock, sticks, and mortar. Ruins from this ancient culture and its mysterious rock art thrive in this primitive area.
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