While this area is heavily used during most of the year, venturing out during off-peak periods allows for a small measure of solitude.
Rocky Mountain Hiking
Utah’s Natural Bridges: Hiking into the 13th century
At the edge of White Canyon in Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah, looking 500 feet down the steep walls of whitish Cedar Mesa sandstone — hiking to the bottom seems an impossibility.
The Tao of the desert: Lessons learned in Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree National Park is home to 50 miles of maintained hiking and horseback riding trails leading through three desert ecosystems, and is a mecca for serious hikers, backpackers and trail riders.
Rowdy Jackson Hole: Big, bad and beautiful
Unlike most Western “resort” towns, there is in Jackson the underlying reality that tourism will never completely wrest control here. Lycra will not replace leather.
The heart of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains: Grand Lake
Grand Lake is one of Colorado’s few natural lakes, and it’s bordered by the much-larger Shadow Mountain and Lake Granby reservoirs.
