From exploring Arizona canyons to Utah buttes and beyond, our national parks columnist shares the most adventurous Southwest ...

In all, visitation grew at four of Utah’s “Mighty 5” parks last year. Zion National Park reclaimed its top spot as Utah’s busiest park in 2024, drawing over 4.9 million visits last year.

Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah was the only park among the five to break a record, tallying 1.42 million visits in 2024 to top its previous record of 1.4 million set in 2021.

in southcentral Utah and ends near Bullfrog Marina on Lake Powell. It winds through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Capitol Reef National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

The Great Salt Lake appears to have been a big draw last year, too. Antelope Island — always a crowd-pleaser — leaped past Snow Canyon to be Utah’s third most-visited state park in 2024, as it ...

More than 3,000 people from across the country responded to the survey, which ranked the Top 100 winter road trips.

One-thousand National Park Service staff were being fired Friday as part of the Trump administration's move to reduce the ...

The Burr Trail Scenic Backway starts in Boulder and twists through parts of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Capitol Reef National ... has been to rural Utah,” Tebbs said.

Members of the “Protect the Dolores” coalition had hoped former President Joe Biden would designate the rugged canyonlands ...

More hikes are located farther down the Scenic Drive and off UT 24. This is a great place to stay if you’re exploring Capitol Reef country. From Torrey, Utah, take UT 24 east for about 11 miles and ...

One of the requests made by the authors of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for the Trump administration, is that ...