Utah Hike of the Week: Bountiful Overlook
Directions • From Interstate 15, exit at 400 North in Bountiful and drive east. Stay on the road for about 3.2 miles as it curves to the south and becomes Bountiful Boulevard. At the LDS Temple begin...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Jump-off Canyon in Ogden
Directions » The trailhead is located across the street from St. James the Just Catholic Church near 450 N. Harrison Blvd. in Ogden. About the hike • The beginning of the Jumpoff Canyon trail feels a...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Pine Canyon Conservation Area near Tooele
Directions • From Interstate 80, drive south on State Road 36 for 7.1 miles. Turn east onto Erda Way. After 1 mile, turn south onto Droubay Road and follow it for 2.5 miles. Turn east again onto 2000...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Holbrook Canyon Trail in Bountiful
Directions » The trailhead is located just south of the Bountiful Temple at 640 S. Bountiful Blvd. There is a small parking lot available. About the hike • The trail begins with a steep slope down...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Parrish Canyon Trail in Davis County
Directions • From the trailhead, walk toward the northern trail — but hang an immediate right at the large wooden sign for the trail that slopes east up the mountainside. You will quickly cross paths...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Old Wagon Trail -- Capitol Reef National Park
Directions • From the Capitol Reef National Park visitors center, take the Scenic Drive south for 6.5 miles. The Old Wagon Trail is marked on the west side of the road. Hike • The Old Wagon Trail...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the week: Stansbury Island Interactive Trail
Directions • From Interstate 80, take Grantsville exit 84. At the stop sign, go left and cross two sets of train tracks. Follow the gravel causeway north across the salt-evaporator ponds. Drive 14...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Fremont River Trail in Capitol Reef National Park
Directions • A kiosk marking the trailhead is in the parking lot for the amphitheater in campground loop C. You can also reach the trailhead from any of the campground loops by walking southwest on...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Willow Heights Trail
Directions • The marked trailhead is about an eighth of a mile east of Silver Fork Lodge in Big Cottonwood Canyon, on the north side of the road. Hike • Willow Heights Trail might be a relatively...
View ArticleUtah Hikers tweet soggy trail photos during May
It rained. It rained. It rained. But people still hiked. They even looked like they had fun doing it. Here are some of the Utah hiking photos hikers tweeted during the soggy month of May. Tweet your...
View ArticleHike of the Week: Beus Canyon
Directions • From Interstate 15, take exit 341 towards 31st Street. Turn right on Washington Blvd., then left at 40th Street. Continue on 40th Street, then turn right onto Harrison Blvd. Turn left on...
View Article12 Months of National Parks -- No. 1, Acadia: Small children love nature, but...
<freeform>In touring a dozen national parks this year, the biggest challenge also was the biggest benefit: My daughter Saskia was only 2 when we started. It could be easy to dwell on all...
View Article12 Months of National Parks -- No. 3, Arches: Are national park rules too...
Pointing this out can elicit a fair bit of defensiveness among national park advocates, but I think it’s important to note: National parks have a lot of rules. I have disagreed with some recreation...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Mount Timpanogos via Timpooneke Trail
Directions • From Interstate 15, take exit 284 for Timpanogos Highway and drive east toward American Fork Canyon until the tollbooth. As of 2016, the fee for entering the canyon is $6 for a three-day...
View Article12 months of national parks -- No. 2, Capitol Reef: 'People shouldn't be here'
<freeform> I once took a friend from back east to Capitol Reef. It was her first trip to any desert. We stopped at a scenic pullout and gazed over the beautiful, rocky loneliness. My...
View Article12 Months of National Parks -- No. 4, Canyonlands: The best fun may require a...
One thing I regret as I take my daughter from national park to national park is that she won’t remember any of it. Saskia was 2 when we started, and now she’s 3. She’s learning a lot and having a ton...
View Article12 Months of National Parks -- No. 5, Biscayne: A threatened park claws its...
Coming from Utah, it’s hard to imagine a national park with views of a city skyline. Sure, Zion Canyon may at times feel like Times Square, but our parks still are fundamentally rural. Biscayne...
View Article12 Months of National Parks -- No. 6, Everglades: Please don't spank the gator
People do dumb things with wild animals. That’s a fact of life in national parks. In the 1920s, mule deer fawns began to disappear from Yosemite as visitors “adopted” them as souvenir pets, according...
View Article12 Months of National Parks -- No. 7, Bryce Canyon: The $10 lifetime senior...
Bryce Canyon is the single most impressive thing I have ever seen in a national park. I remember my first trip, when I was in eighth grade. I was from Iowa, and I’d never heard of Bryce Canyon or seen...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Bourbon Lake in the Uinta Mountains
Directions • From Evanston, Wyoming, take the Mirror Lake Scenic Byway (Utah Highway 150) south for 39 miles. If coming from Kamas, take Center Street east until the road becomes Mirror Lake Scenic...
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