Canyonlands National Park

Canyonlands is even more beautiful than Arches in my opinion. Arches seems to be the more well known and popular park, however. Maybe because of its name or because it's close proximity to Moab.

This park is gorgeous. Beautiful rock canyons of every color, weaving in and out like a vast winding river. The Colorado River does flow through the bottom supposedly, but we couldn't see it.

We hiked about 2 miles on the cliffs. It was more like climbing rocks along a cliff edge with abundant opportunity for photo shoots. Doug was frequently getting very close to the cliff edge. It made me nervous; I had to turn and not look. After being there for awhile I adapted and I was getting closer to the edge than I thought I would. We walked and we walked and we got some great pictures. I didn't want to turn around and head back to the van, but we hadn't brought water with us because we thought it was just a single overlook viewpoint.

Heading back, there was a rainbow through the Canyon. I've never seen a rainbow that was at a lower elevation than me. It was also especially wide, with each color of the rainbow uniquely predominant. Of all the places, we've been so far this was my favorite.Read more