• National Monuments

• Cedar Breaks
• Dinosaur
• Escalante
• Hovenweep
• Natural Bridges
• Timpanogos Cave
• More


• National Parks
• Arches
• Bryce Canyon
• Canyonlands
• Capitol Reef
• Zion


• State Parks (45 parks)


• Wild Places
• BLM areas
• Coral Pink Sand Dunes SP
• Dead Horse Pnt (Wild River)
• Dirty Devil River (Wild River)
• Goblin Valley
• Henry Mountains
• Little Sahara Sand Dunes
• National Forests
• San Rafael Swell (Desert Area)
• Utah's Great Basin
• Utah's Rock Art Sites
• Utah's Rocky Mountains
• Wilderness Areas


• Other Good Links
• Utah
• Canyonlands and Vacinity
• ExploreUtah.com
• Moab and Vacinity
• Utah Travel and Adventure Page
• Arizona
• Antelope Canyon
• Buckskin Gulch
• Canyon DeChelley, AZ
• Grand Canyon NP, AZ
• Monument Valley, AZ
• Paria River Gorge
• Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area
• California
• Death Valley NP
• Mammoth Lakes
• Mono Lake
• Yosemite NP
• Colorado
• Mesa Verde NP, CO
• Rocky Mountain NP
• Montana
• Glacier National Park, MT
• Grizzly Discovery Center, MT
• Nevada
• Great Basin NP, NV
• Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, NV
• Lake Tahoe
• Valley of Fire SP, NV
• New Mexico
  • Chaco Canyon NM
• Washington
  • Resources for Washington's Photo Opps
• Wyoming
  • Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
  • Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

• Annual Eagle migration Stop
  (Jan-Feb) - various places throughout UT
  Contact UT division of Wildlife
• Annual Snow Geese Migration Stop
  Feb or March - Delta, UT
• Antelope Island, UT
• Bear River Bird Refuge>
• Bosque Del Apache Nat Wildlife Preserve, NM
• Clear Lake Waterfowl Mgmt Area
• Farmington Bay Wildlife Refuge
• Fish Springs Wildlife Refuge
  
• Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
• Great Salt Lake
• Great Salt Lake Birding Trails
• Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve (formerly Layton Wetlands)
• Hawk Watch International
• Mathesen Preserve
• National Bison Range, MT
• Ouray Wildlife Refuge
• Pariette Wetlands, UT
• Tracy Aviary, SLC, UT
• Utah's Wildlife Viewing Places
• Utah's Watchable Wildlife Areas
• Utah's Watchable Wildlife Events
• Viewing Wildlife in Colorado
• Where to Find Birds in Utah (from www.birding.com)
• Where to Find Birds in Utah (from www.utahbirds.org)
• Wildlife Facts Sheet
• Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

• Best Viewing Times
• February
• Around Las Vegas, NV, the Joshua Trees are in bloom
• Late Feb-Mid March
• Anza-Borrego SP, CA
• Death Valley NP
• Channel Islands NP
• Check the Desert WildFlower Watch from desertusa.com for weekly updates.
• Late Mar-April
• Arizona's Sonoran Desert
• California's Carrizo Plains
• California's High desert areas
• Joshua Tree NP
• Mojave Nature Preserve
• Texas Hill Country
• April
• Northern Arizona - asters, cactus, poppies, primrose, tamarisk, yucca
• Southwestern Utah (Zion, Escalante, Paria Wilderness)
• Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve , CA (2nd-3rd week in April)
• best time is late morning to early afternoon because the flowers need warmth
  to open but the wind comes up in the afternoon
• Call the Theodore Payne Wildflower Research Center in Sun Valley CA at
  818-768-1802 or the Poppy Reserve at 800-777-0369 for more info
• In California's Southern Coast Ranges you'll see poppies and lupine
• Tehachapi Range, CA
• Sierra Nevada foothills
• Peak bloom on California's North Coast
• May
• St. George Area: a special, rare flower called the "Dwarf Bear Claw Poppy"
• South-Central Utah
  • Canyonlands NP (Fishhook Cactus)
  • Arches NP and Moab area
  • Capitol Reef (find flowers such as globemallow, prickly pear cactus,
    primrose, claret cup, yucca, mule's ears)
• Yosemite Valley
• Sierra Mntns, at the 2000-5000 ft locations
• California's North Coast and Klamath ranges look for redbud and dogwood
• Yellowstone - the May bloomers are: Shooting Star, Larkspur, Pasque, Yellow Bell, Bluebell, Clematis, Mountain Strawberry, Glacier Lily, Monkeyflower, Balsamroot, pond lilies, and more!
• June
• Central Utah and higher regions in the South
  • Bryce Canyon NP(sego lily, primrose, scarlet gilia, penstemon, flax, columbine
  • Coral Pink Sand Dunes SP (mule's ears, and a flower that only grows here, the Welsch's Milkweed
• Great Basin NP, NV
• Colorado's LaPlata Mntns
• Places in CA
• Rhododendrons and Azaleas are in bloom in redwood regions
• Depending on snow pack, high elevations in Southern CA
• Modoc Plateau, Klamath and Siskiyou Ranges in Norhtern CA
• July - August
• Colorado's Mountains such as Yankee Boy Basin near Ouray (need 4x4 to get there)
• Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
• High country of the Sierra and Cascade Ranges will continue blooming into August
• Utah's Mountains
• Uintah Mountains
• Mount Nebo and Mount Timpanogos
• Wasatch Mntns (Especially Albion Basin, Alta)
• Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: golden columbine, lupine, paintbrush, pond lillies, geranium, Harebell, Yellow Bell


• Other Good Flower Places
• Aiken Canyon, Colorado, a TNC preserve
• Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, NM
• CA Wildflower Page
• DesertUsa Wildflower Watch
• National Bison Range, MT   (The wide open spaces provide a place to view
    wildFLOWERS, too)
• National Wildflower Research Page
• What's Up and Blooming in Zion NP Now(In season, Click on the "What's Up and Blooming" Link)


• Wildflower Hotlines
• Arizona's Desert Botanical Garden
• California
• Call the Theodore Payne Wildflower Research Center in Sun Valley CA at
  818-768-1802
  They track the Carrizo Plains
• Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve
• Colorado
• Crested Butte's Anual Wildflower Festival
• Rocky Mntn National Park
  These conditions are representative of the rest of the state
• Texas
• Texas Wildflower and Fall Foliage hotline
• LadyBird Johnson Wildflower Center
• Washington
• Mount Ranier National Park (a good barometer for the rest of the state)

Miscellaneous Hotspots Info Links

• Forest Service Cabins
• Great Outdoor Recreation Pages
• L.L. Bean's Park Search
• National Park Service  (United States)
• National Watchable Wildlife Program

Trip Reports
Most of these are written by us, there are some links

• Road Trips

Where to get a shower!
One of camping's little pleasures is a shower after a few days in the wilderness.
Here are a few places to get one:

• Utah Statewide Camping Areas
• Bryce Canyon NP
• at Sunrise Point by museum and general store
• at Ruby's Inn campground just outside the park
• Canyonlands
• Needles Outpost
• Coral Pink Sand Dunes SP, Goblin Valley SP, Kodachrome Basin SP,
  Snow Canyon SP
• Showers in campground, unlimited water, free if camping, nominal fee if not
  
• Moab area
• Here is a nice, comprehensive table containing BLM Campgrounds on the East side of the State and their amenities (ie. showers!)
• Lazy Lizard Int'l Hostel, 1213 South Highway 191, Moab, Utah, 84532, (801)259-6057
• Lee's Ferry, AZ
• Gas Station - Showers
• Page, AZ
• Page / Lake Powell Campground
• Yellowstone NP
• Canyon, Grant Village and Lake Village campgrounds
• Zion NP
• campground right outside park in Springdale )