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Bryce Canyon National Park

UPDATE | Traveler's View: Utah Politicians Have Inordinate Sway Over Federal Lands

Work for the National Park Service in Utah and you best be prepared to serve the best interests of Utah politicians. Why else, after Park Service staff at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area spent nine years working on the requisite environmental studies and public comment periods to allow ATV use in the NRA, would the agency's regional director issue a directive that all parks in the state open their dirt and paved roads to ATVs without similar studies?

Bryce Canyon National Park Certified As An International Dark Sky Park

The National Park Service and the International Dark-Sky Association have designated Bryce Canyon National Park as an International Dark Sky Park. This certification recognizes the exceptional quality of the park’s night skies and provides added opportunities to enhance visitor experiences through astronomy-based interpretive programming.

Photography In The National Parks: The Geometry Of Nature

If you look hard enough, you'll find mathematics everywhere, even in nature. Photographer Rebecca Latson has photographed that geometry, both manmade and natural, during her national park visits and shows you how to see the obvious (and not-so-obvious) lines, angles, circles, arcs and ellipses to improve your compositions and create beautiful national park photos of your own.

Photography In The National Parks: Is There In Truth No Beauty? Some Random Thoughts About Photographic Honesty

How much does excessive photo editing, altering, or manipulation matter to you when admiring a lovely image on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook? Is it still a pretty photo that entices you to visit a national park? Photographer Rebecca Latson asks those questions of herself, and you, and gives her thoughts on the subject of truth in photography.

Thor's Hammer and Bryce Amphitheater scenery, Bryce Canyon National Park

Thor's Hammer, which can be seen from the Navajo Loop Trail at Bryce Canyon National Park, in Utah, is a textbook example of a hoodoo. Hoodoos, shaped sort of like totem poles, are formed when the softer rock layers are eroded away faster than the more resistant rock layers.

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Natural Bridge and summer rainstorms, Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park, in Utah, is filled with textbook examples of amazing geological features like Natural Bridge, which is not really a bridge, but an arch, formed over time by frost wedging, chemical dissolving of the rock by rainwater, and gravity's insistent tug. 

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The Essential RVing Guide

The Essential RVing Guide to the National Parks

The National Parks RVing Guide, aka the Essential RVing Guide To The National Parks, is the definitive guide for RVers seeking information on campgrounds in the National Park System where they can park their rigs. It's available for free for both iPhones and Android models.

This app is packed with RVing specific details on more than 250 campgrounds in more than 70 parks.

You'll also find stories about RVing in the parks, some tips if you've just recently turned into an RVer, and some planning suggestions. A bonus that wasn't in the previous eBook or PDF versions of this guide are feeds of Traveler content: you'll find our latest stories as well as our most recent podcasts just a click away.

So whether you have an iPhone or an Android, download this app and start exploring the campgrounds in the National Park System where you can park your rig.