Arch Canyon Ruins
The ruins in Arch Canyon were a different approach to canyon living as compared to Butler Wash: Arch Canyon’s buildings were built at the bottom of the cliff-like canyon walls. That certainly seemed both safer and much easier for daily chores and gathering food, though […]
Butler Wash Ruins
The Anasazi ruins at the northerly end of Butler Wash were surprising. A casual undulating hike led us to an amazing overlook that showed the huge bowl end of a canyon with multiple arched caves up in the air around its perimeter. Within the caves […]
Edge of the Cedars
Edge of the Cedars State Park had a great museum that explained the know history of the Anasazi people and their thousand year old ruins. If interested in exploring and understanding the ruins of Utah, this museum was a recommended learning experience.
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The flight into Moab was beautiful, coming in low on a small 20 seater plane that guaranteed great views. An orange pink sunset painted the already orange and pink geology flowing underneath with an unearthly glow that came from within the earth. Fresh white powder snow outlined rock formations and […]
Smash Putt is the brainchild of two ex-Burners who “wanted to do something to help keep Seattle weird”. Their solution: take over an old warehouse in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood for a month and turn it into a 21-years-and-older indoor miniature golf course with some twists. The point […]
The Mercer Slough Nature Park is a great place for quick casual kayaking, canoeing, or fishing, located at the northwest side of where major highways I-90 and I-405 meet (yet quietly tucked away from the hubbub). The park encompasses over 320 acres of fresh water wetlands […]
The Newport area of the Oregon coast has a lot to offer, with the amenities and maritime history of the city surrounded on both the north and south sides by scenic forested parks that wander down to the wave-battered rocky shore of the Pacific Ocean. Highway 101 curves around the […]