Around the year 1,000 A.D., Native Americans known as the Fremont, gathered on a hilltop in what is now Fremont Indian State Park and Museum in Central Utah. More than 100 structures dot the ridgeline and the people decorated the area with more than 690 rock art panels. Life wasn’t easy here though as each [...]

Two years after the dam was erected across Strawberry River, Starvation State Park in Utah was established. The dam created a 3,495 surface acre reservoir as part of the Central Utah Water Project. This gorgeous reservoir, nestled among arid hills and sandstone bluffs, offers marvelous fishing, boating and water sport activities, as well as amazing [...]

Though it may seem that Utah has a less-than-dynamic cultural milieu, occasionally a place or an event will challenge that sentiment. Such is the case with the Sri Sri Radha Krishna temple located right off of Main Street in Spanish Fork, Utah. Year-round the beautiful Rajasthani-style temple hosts a slew of events, catering not only [...]

The southwest is known for its abundance of slot canyons: narrow, water-worn gorges that are far deeper than they are wide. One of the most famous, The Narrows, lies in Utah’s spectacular Zion National Park, while nearby Arizona’s Antelope Canyon may be the most-photographed. But you don’t have to travel far within Utah to find [...]

On the southeast corner of the marvelous San Rafael Swell in central Utah lies Goblin Valley State Park. Hidden here is an otherworldly valley and photographer’s paradise, filled with mushroom-shaped and goblin-topped hoodoos, sandstone boulders rounded and perched atop narrow pedestals. Goblin Valley is located in a remote spot in the desert, tucked between the [...]

In southeast Utah, huddled high up on the Colorado Plateau, there’s an elevated swath of land known as Cedar Mesa. This high desert is rife with cliffs and canyons, and contains a concentration of ancient Native American sites—the cliff dwellings of the Ancient Puebloans, the Anasazi. Cedar Mesa recently made headlines as one of two [...]

The warm waters and sandy beaches of Yuba State Park are what draw people from all over the West to visit. With great hiking, fantastic off-road ATV trails, biking, fishing and camping and boat-in camping, this park is very popular with outdoor enthusiasts and water recreationists. Two boat ramps, one at Yuba State Park and [...]

Rainbow Bridge National Monument in the Southwest U.S. is unquestionably one of the sites you should see while visiting. An extraordinary natural wonder sitting astride Bridge Canyon on Utah’s southern border, this portal is a gateway to a maze of canyons to the north. This great arc of sandstone is the world’s largest natural bridge [...]

Sundance Ski Resort, nestled at the base of Mt. Timpanogos in the Wasach Mountains of Utah, was created by actor/entrepreneur Robert Redford. The view from the summit of neighboring Uinta Peaks rivals the view from any resort in the West. With 450 acres of ski terrain, it is rather small compared to many ski resorts, [...]

According to many, the West was won by the miners and the railroad men. The Western Mining and Railroad Museum tells the history of the railroad, of mining in the West and of the lifestyles of the multiethnic immigrants who came into the area between 1880 and about 1936 to work the rails and the [...]