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Moab is fueled by locomotion. Paddling rivers, cycling slickrock, hiking through the world's grandest collection of stone archways--this southeastern Utah destination is a slice of high-energy nirvana. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sandals, […]

Snow is hard to come by in most of the West's summer vacation hot spots, which explains how Debbie and Wiley Scott and their daughters found themselves on the back […]

* Don't get us wrong: there are few things we'd rather do than spend a week skiing with the family in Aspen, Whistler, or the Valley - as in Sun, […]

Seven years after the Yellowstone burn, immense swaths of charred trees are reminders of the swirling firestorms that swept through the park. Yet while time slowly topples and decays these […]

Ski towns in the Rockies are spending the summers marrying their spectacular natural settings with some of the finest music, dance, and drama festivals in the West. The events bring […]

Lumbering out of the trees, the two black bears plopped down in the middle of the highway, like Winnie-the-Pooh taking a well-deserved break. Although we had come to British Columbia […]

For six decades Ben Cone and his father before him have carefully tended their 8,000-acre coastal plain preserve in North Carolina. Periodically they'd set fires to cleanse the mixed hardwood […]

While Utah's predominantly Mormon culture frowns on the consumption of alcoholi beverages, the steady flow of tourists and the immigration of new residents has created demand for beer with bite. […]

Deep in a high-desert canyon filled with contorted cottonwoods, stunted blackbrush, cactuses and melodious canyon wrens, the "Holy Ghost" hovers above a sandy wash. Surrounded by lesser figures, the striking […]

* Winter brings a hush to Zion National Park--and lodging bargains to savvy off-season travelers. In this southwestern Utah park of soaring cliffs and colorful canyons, the Zion in Winter […]

* Utah is a well-known Jurassic graveyard, so it's fitting that the new North American Museum of Ancient Life in Lehi offers the world's largest collection of fossilized dinosaur remains […]

The red rock wonderland of Utah's San Rafael Swell is remote, with no facilities and dusty roads. What are you waiting for? * Why did 18th-century Spanish explorers avoid the […]

Beehive State Bard * "I'm sure they all thought I was mad," Fred C. Adams says. He's recalling the day, 40 years ago, when he tried to convince the city […]

Near Salt Lake City, a destination to delight the senses With their dancing waters and bursts of color, the 55-acre gardens of Thanksgiving Point, 20 minutes south of Salt Lake […]

Sorrel River Ranch Resort is a remote oasis in an otherwise unforgiving landscape. The 17-mile drive from Moab heightens that remoteness, as does the sight of the Fisher Towers--three 2,000-foot-tall […]

This winter, try your skills on the slopes, courses, runs, and rinks that Salt Lake City will reserve for Olympic athletes in 2002 * Climbing from the warmth of Snowbasin […]

* Hunting antiques is one of my favorite sports. My stalking ground in Salt Lake City is a two- by eight-block stretch of downtown just south of Temple Square. There […]

Need a break from the pressures of the season? From Denver to Salt Lake City to Boise, here are 10 great ways to find December fun * We love the […]

At Dead Horse Point State Park in southeastern Utah, you'll see geology in the making Navajo, Kayenta, Wingate, Chinle, Moenkopi. Gazing from the brink of Utah's Dead Horse Point State […]

* In the early days of the 20th century, Maynard Dixon ventured from California to see what remained of the Old West in its waning days. Roaming the arid and […]

* August 3-5. Raspberries are blended, baked, and jammed during Raspberry Days, a three-day toast to the tart treat on the shores of Bear Lake in Garden City, Utah. On […]

* It's hard to believe Thanksgiving Point was once a dust bowl. That was its state before businessman Alan Ashton turned it into a botanical wonderland. The 55-acre garden has […]

* March 4. They twist, they turn, they flip, they try to land upright--on skis. Style counts, too, for competitors at the Intermountain Division Championships Freestyle Aerial Competition at the […]

Guided backcountry tours reveal hidden beauties of a stunning Utah park Though it spans more than 337,500 acres, few people set foot into the heart of Canyon-lands National Park. No […]

* Flipping frantically through the Sundance Film Festival's ticket catalog, I realized I was chasing a dream: Could I really figure out which "indie" film would be the next blockbuster? […]

Imagine a ski resort that averages 450 inches of powder every winter, where there are 1,200 acres of skiing, and where you seldom wait in a lift line. You'd want […]

Nine Mile Canyon in central Utah is a 40-mile-long gallery of precious images They were among America's first plein air artists, toiling under the open sky to chip images of […]

The efforts of field biologists Bob and Kristine Inman to save the endangered species of wolverines from extinction are described.

Tucked 1,100 feet beneath the rim of southern Utah's Cedar Mesa, the Valley of the Gods is easy to miss--especially if you're in a hurry to get from "here" to […]

Thick blankets of fluffy, untracked snow, finely manicured runs, expansive bowls with great pitch, acre after acre of aspen and conifer glades to explore: These descriptions aptly apply to Utah's […]

There was no need, Nicolle Smith assured me, to command Aries, Gaiter, Loathing, and the rest of my sled dogs to "mush" to get them moving. After I double-checked my […]

Autumn may have greeted northern Wyoming with snow and single-digit cold, but the bighorn ram about 50 yards up the mountain from me had other things on his mind besides […]

I find it a good and comforting fact that dog-hauling pickup trucks outnumber SUVs in Dubois, Wyoming, a rugged Rocky Mountain town (pronounced DU-boys) that so far has succeeded in […]

It's the stuff of campfire stories: legends of lost hoards of Spanish gold somewhere in the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah. Throw another log on the fire and you can […]

Not too many years ago game wardens needed to catch poachers in the act to secure a conviction. But today federal agents are turning to forensics work normally associated with […]

The article focuses on the concern related to the extinction of wolf population in Michigan's, Isle Royale National Park due to a shallow genetic pool. Topics discussed include increase in the moose population in recent years which could remake the island's forests by preventing regrowth of balsam fir, a study that would allow bringing in wolves infusing those on the island with a healthy dose of new genes and doctor Rolf Peterson's article on the wolf-moose dynamics on Isle Royale.

The article focuses on the challenges faced in the maintenance backlog and operating cost within a National park system. Topics discussed include franchising for better managment of park system, views Holly Fretwell on U.S National Park Service being an ineffective agency and Fretwell's views on protection of National parks as they constitute a wonderful recreation area.