Zion National Park, UT
Even from a distance as I approached Zion National Park I could tell it was going to be a special place. The cliffs seem to rise vertically out of the desert, with varying hues from deep reds to almost white. Approaching from the south, there’s a main road that runs straight through the park, passing through two tunnels, and another that branches off of it and is accessible only by shuttlebus to limit the traffic there. Since it was later…