The thing about a road trip through Utah and Wyoming is that every time you come around another bend, you gasp. It’s one incredible view after another. And even when it’s not slick-rock canyons or red-hued hoodoos or acres of siliceous sinter, it’s miles and miles and miles of sagebrush with a mountain in the distance. It’s a landscape like nothing in the Northeast.
We went to four National Parks (Bryce, Zion, Grand Teton and Yellowstone), and one National Historic Site (Golden Spike), and stayed in or traveled through at least six National Forests (Ashley, Bridger-Teton, Cache, Dixie, Targhee, Uinta-Wasatch). With each one I thought “This is why we pay taxes; I’m getting my tax dollars back in spades”. Great swaths of scenic land have been preserved so that you and I and a lot of elk can visit.
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| Bryce Canyon |
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| Bryce Canyon |
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| Bryce Canyon |
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| Zion |
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| Slick rock canyon, off Scenic By-Way 12 |
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| Moor (and cold child), off Scenic By-Way 12 |
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| Firehole Canyon, Flaming Gorge |
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| Old Faithful |
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| Excelsior Geyser |
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| Thermal runoff into the Firehole River |
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| Porcelain Basin |
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| Gardner River |
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| Gardner River (that green squiggle through the middle) |
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| Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone |
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| Dead trees |
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| Jenny Lake |
Part 1, The Hut, is
here.
Part 2, The Campsites, is
here.
Part 3, On Food And Cooking, is
here.
Part 4, The Assignment, is
here.
Part 5, The Animals, is
here.
Hey! Love the freezing child.
ReplyDeleteAny hot springs along the way?
Liz