State of Wilderness

Author: keely

  • Bryce Canyon National Park: Submission or Serendipity?

    By the time we got to Bryce Canyon that Sunday night in July, I was really darn sick.  We were also extremely hungry.  We had driven pretty hard to try to make it to our place to sleep for the night, and hadn’t time to stop for food.  We had driven past a Subway in…

  • Lower Calf Creek Falls

    Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Boulder UT Details:  moderate hike, 5-7 miles round trip, takes average of 3-4 hours for most people to complete.  Park at the Calf Creek Campground and follow the signs.  $3 use fee required. Highlight:  you can swim in the water when you get there.  It’s cold, though! We got to…

  • Goodbye Moab, Hello Scenic Byway 12: Utah Adventures

    At the last minute of our vacation planning this summer, we had switched which hotel we were going to stay at in Moab, on the basis of dog friendliness. The hotel we chose, the Kokopelli Lodge, I would recommend as a motel with character and friendly owners. It also boasted a small garden area, where…

  • The Supermoon of Moab

    Yes, I am still telling stories of our summer vacation. This is a place for us to hold on to them so they won’t disappear from our memory. When we were in the planning stages of our vacation, Jason didn’t even want to go back to Moab, and especially not Arches National Park. It was…