The National Parks of Utah

In one sense, all the same; in another sense, all different. Each is a part of the great Colorado Plateau... yet each has its own distinct landscape. Upon seeing this landscape for the first time, a 19th-century traveler wrote in amazement, “There are scenes of magnificent disorder... scenes of savage grandeur beyond all description. Frenzied elements have strewed such bewildering spectacles of mighty shapes that southern Utah must always be that land sought by explorers of the strange and marvelous.”