Bryce Canyon Travel Blog

Amazing Earthfest! celebrates America’s public lands, focusing on the Colorado Plateau area. This means Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, and Zion National Park here in Utah. Join their 5th annual festivities this year in Kanab,...

Perfect timing…entrance to all national parks, like Zion, is FREE today! (And through Easter Sunday). What a great way to celebrate Earth Day. Go on, get out there! image: PurpleTulips/Flickr

National Park Week is April 16-24. In celebration of this, entrance to all national parks is FREE that week! So, if the government hasn’t shut down in the meantime, plan to visit your local national park or subsidiary (monuments, etc.) and get a load of all that gorgeous nature for free. Don’t...

Save the dates: April 16-24 once again brings the monster-big, monster-popular Easter Jeep Safari to the slickrock lands around Moab, UT. image: EXTREMEPODS.COM/Flickr What: Jeeps (or any type of off-road trucks) with their crazy big monster tires crawl over slickrock routes throughout the canyon country...

Moab may be known for its mountain biking, but if you’re into road bikes (skinny tires) you can enjoy just as much beauty while you get a workout. And if you’re a serious cyclist, check out the Skinny Tire Festival happening next month, when this road cycling tour kicks off the 2011 year. Cruising...

If you like hiking and want to shout out for it, consider attending or promoting (tweet! blog! text!) the events of Hike the Hill: Trails Advocacy Week, which starts today and runs till next Thursday. Sponsored by the American Hiking Society, this week is all about funding, promoting, and protecting...

Zion National Park has a long history of promoting the arts. Extolled in paintings, words, photographs, sculptures, and more, the Zion Canyon welcomes artists. Continuing that long tradition, Zion yesterday announced its 2011 Artist-in-Residence, sculptor David Purcell. Mr. Purcell will offer a lecture...

Save the dates. If you’ll be in Moab in early February, head to the Moab Community Theater and check out their “funny, sad, provocative and unpredictable…high-energy play”: Vipassana, the Musical. What is Vipassana, you ask? It’s a form of silent meditation meant to wipe...

This coming weekend, the Martin Luther King, Jr., birthday weekend, is 2011′s first free entrance to all national parks. Get away, get outside, bask in some nature, and save a bit of money while you do. Winter can be a great time to visit most parks, as they are less crowded, can offer fun activities...

Lunar mania descends! The “Dark Rangers” (astronomy experts) of Bryce Canyon will present cool activities on Monday night. And I do mean pretty cool. Here’s the skinny: 1) Lunar eclipse! Winter Solstice! Full Moon Hike! Star-gazing! All at once! Wow. You would think seeing stars doesn’t...