Bryce Canyon is not actually a canyon (it is an natural amphitheater) so that is a strange name for the national park, but it is one of the most beautiful national parks [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Erik Smith again about his trip to the Four Corners area in the American southwest. Four Corners is the spot where 4 U.S. states meet: Utah, Arizona, [...]

Another photo from the beautiful Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. If you go to Bryce get up early and watch the sun rise over the hoodoos that are the most memorable [...]

One of the best hikes I have ever take was in Bryce Canyon National Park. This park is one of the reason that Americans and foreign visitors alike should visit the National [...]

The Bonneville Salt Flats in northern Utah are very very flat. This is where the land speed records are set, but this was a much less hospitable feature to covered wagons on [...]

This is the famous Mormon Tabernacle which is the home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir but was really constructed so that the Mormon pioneers could hear Brigham Young who is considered the [...]

These are some of the Petroglyphs carved by native American People on land that is now part of the McConkie Ranch outside Vernal, UT. Admission is free but those signs about rattlesnakes [...]

This ferocious dinosaur is one of the exhibits at the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal, Utah. Vernal is the gateway city to Dinosaur National Monument which is what brings [...]

One of the best hikes that I have ever done is hiking up the Virgin River in a slot canyon in Zion National Park. This canyon gets as narrow, in the section [...]

This is a shot looking down into the Hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park very early in the day as the park is filled with the early morning light. It is normally [...]