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With the biggest, most beautiful and most
pristine landscapes in North America, UTAH has something for everyone:
from brilliantly colored canyons, across endless desert plains, to thickly
wooded and snow-covered mountains. This unmatched range of terrain, almost
all of which is public land, makes Utah the place to come for outdoor
pursuits, whether your tastes run to hiking, off-track mountain biking,
whitewater rafting or skiing.
Southern Utah has more national parks than anywhere else in the US; in
fact it has often been suggested that the entire area should become one
vast national park. The most accessible parts - such as Zion and Bryce
Canyon - are by far the most visited, but lesser-known parks like
Arches National Park
and
Canyonlands National Park are every bit as dramatic. Huge tracts of this empty
desert, in which beautiful pre-Columbian pictographs and Ancestral
Puebloan ruins lie hidden, are all but unexplored; seeing them in safety
requires a good degree of advance planning and self-sufficiency. |
