During the summer, Navajo families still live and farm the bottoms of Canyon de Chelly, Canyon del Muerto and Monument Canyon, all of which make up Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona.
Rocky Mountain Hiking
Hiking Colorado’s Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness
While this area is heavily used during most of the year, venturing out during off-peak periods allows for a small measure of solitude.
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.
