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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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Day
Hikes
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Paria Canyon - Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness:
Before highways and railways, before pioneers, even before Columbus.....the land
we know as the United States was truly a vast wilderness. To protect these last
remaining areas, in 1984 Congress created the Paria Canyon - Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.
Paria Canyon's outstanding scenery, desert wildlife, colorful history, and opportunities
for primitive recreation will remain free from the influence of man and are protected
in this condition for future generations. Its 112,500 acres beckon adventurers who
yearn for solitude, scenic splendor, and the chance to explore one of the longest
and deepest slot canyons in the world.
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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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Yosemite National Park:
Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States,
is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 747,956 acres, you can also
find; deep valleys, majestic meadows, ancient giant sequoias, rivers, granite domes,
an infinite wilderness area, and much, much more. Within the Parks 1,169 square
miles you will discover; hundreds of wildlife species, thousands of Yosemite plants,
two wild and scenic rivers, the Tuolumne and Merced rivers. The park has an elevation
range from 2,000 to 13,114 feet (610 to 4,000 m) above sea level and contains five
major vegetative life zones. With over 800 miles of trails waiting to be explored,
this is truly a hiker's paradise.
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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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