America's Great Outdoors
Sometimes there are no words to describe the view in our national parks. This photo from Arches National Park is no exception.Photo: Jacob W. Frank 

Sometimes there are no words to describe the view in our national parks. This photo from Arches National Park is no exception.

Photo: Jacob W. Frank 

A waning sun and a waxing moon at Arches National Park. Does it get any better than this? Photo: Jacob W. Frank

A waning sun and a waxing moon at Arches National Park. Does it get any better than this? 

Photo: Jacob W. Frank

Monitor Butte sails through frosty clouds and over an icy sandstone sea at sunset, just beyond the Canyonlands National Park boundary.Photo: National Park Service 

Monitor Butte sails through frosty clouds and over an icy sandstone sea at sunset, just beyond the Canyonlands National Park boundary.

Photo: National Park Service 

The final sunrise from Zion National Park in 2012.Photo: National Park Service 

The final sunrise from Zion National Park in 2012.

Photo: National Park Service 

Canyonlands invites you to explore a wilderness of countless canyons and fantastically formed buttes carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries. Rivers divide the park into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and the rivers themselves. These areas share a primitive desert atmosphere, but each offers different opportunities for sightseeing and adventure.Photo: National Park Service 

Canyonlands invites you to explore a wilderness of countless canyons and fantastically formed buttes carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries. Rivers divide the park into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and the rivers themselves. These areas share a primitive desert atmosphere, but each offers different opportunities for sightseeing and adventure.

Photo: National Park Service 

How about some trivia today. What famous, yet brief, chase scene was filmed in this area of Arches National Park?Photo: Stephen Campbell 

How about some trivia today. What famous, yet brief, chase scene was filmed in this area of Arches National Park?

Photo: Stephen Campbell 

Visit Arches National Park in Utah and discover a landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures unlike any other in the world. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins and giant balanced rocks. This red rock wonderland will amaze you with its formations, refresh you with its trails, and inspire you with its sunsets.Courthouse Towers are pictured above.Photo: National Park Service 

Visit Arches National Park in Utah and discover a landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures unlike any other in the world. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins and giant balanced rocks. This red rock wonderland will amaze you with its formations, refresh you with its trails, and inspire you with its sunsets.

Courthouse Towers are pictured above.

Photo: National Park Service 

Encompassing over 1.2 million acres, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area offers unparalleled opportunities for water-based & backcountry recreation. The recreation area stretches for hundreds of miles from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah, encompassing scenic vistas, geologic wonders, and a vast panorama of human history.Photo: National Park Service 

Encompassing over 1.2 million acres, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area offers unparalleled opportunities for water-based & backcountry recreation. The recreation area stretches for hundreds of miles from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah, encompassing scenic vistas, geologic wonders, and a vast panorama of human history.

Photo: National Park Service 

Bryce Canyon National Park, famous for its worldly unique geology, consists of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The erosional force of frost-wedging and the dissolving power of rainwater have shaped the colorful limestone rock of the Claron Formation into bizarre shapes, including slot canyons, windows, fins, and spires called “hoodoos.”Photo: Anand Rane 

Bryce Canyon National Park, famous for its worldly unique geology, consists of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The erosional force of frost-wedging and the dissolving power of rainwater have shaped the colorful limestone rock of the Claron Formation into bizarre shapes, including slot canyons, windows, fins, and spires called “hoodoos.”

Photo: Anand Rane 

The full “blue” Moon was in full display over many public lands this weekend, but we just had to share this one amazing from Zion National Park. What a picture!Photo: National Park Service 

The full “blue” Moon was in full display over many public lands this weekend, but we just had to share this one amazing from Zion National Park. What a picture!

Photo: National Park Service