Arches National Park
Natural stone arches are scattered across southern Utah's red-rock country. The largest concentration of arches in the world, however, is found near Moab in the 76,000-acre Arches National Park — one of Utah's most popular tourist attractions. 

Glen Canyon Dam National Recreation Area
When plans for Lake Powell were conceived more than 45 years ago, government officials believed that other than a few avid fishermen, recreationalists would seldom use the huge reservoir that would back up behind Glen Canyon Dam. 

Zion National Park
Zion National Park, a spectacular canyon with towering cliffs, amazing sandstone formations, small waterfalls and secluded pools, has become so popular over the past two decades that park officials have turned to shuttle buses to manage the crowds. 

Bryce Canyon National Park
Centuries of wind and water have turned the edge of a southern Utah plateau into one of the most colorful and unique rock spire displays in the world. 

Canyonlands National Park
Canyonlands National Park, a barren desert labyrinth in southeastern Utah, is so incredibly rugged that standing and looking over it can be unsettling. 

Capitol Reef National Park
With its grand cliffs and colorful sandstone formations, Capitol Reef National Park is a paradise for hikers and bikers. And if a relatively easy hike or bike ride is not your desire, the park is also a popular choice for a scenic drive. 

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
A visit to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah's newest national recreation area, is no day trip in a rental car or RV. 

Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
Flaming Gorge Reservoir is a 91-mile-long lake divided almost equally between eastern Utah and southern Wyoming. 

Great Basin National Park
Rising out of the Nevada desert, just over the Utah border along the crest of the Snake Mountain Range, are the majestic peaks of Great Basin National Park. 

Goblin Valley State Park
When cowboys stumbled across Goblin Valley in the late 1800s, they found the rock formations a bit spooky. 

Natural Bridges National Monument
There are still a few places left where solitude reigns supreme. And one of the best is tucked away in Utah's own back yard. 

Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Even though Rainbow Bridge is not one of the "Seven Wonders of the World," many believe it should be. The rock arch is so big, so marvelously carved and so beautifully accented, it's hard to think of it in any other terms than as a "wonder" — natural or otherwise. 

Calf Creek Recreation Area
One of Utah's premier hikes is the Lower Calf Creek Falls, a delightful oasis in the desert landscape of southern Utah. 

Hovenweep National Monument
Solitude and mystery. These are qualities that make a string of ancient Puebloan villages along the Utah-Colorado border special. 

Dead Horse Point
About 2,000 feet below the stone promontory of Dead Horse Point, winds the Colorado River through one of its most famous regions — Goose Neck. 

Dinosaur National Monument
In 1909, Earl Douglass, a staff paleontologist with the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., spotted eight fossilized tail bones exposed on top of a ridge on the arid landscape near Vernal. 

Four Corners Monument
There is only one place in the United States where you can be standing in four states at the same time — Four Corners Monument. 

Kodachrome Basin State Park
Millions of years ago, springs and spouting geysers welled upward in an area not unlike portions of today's Yellowstone National Park. Over time the source of these waters dried up; the sediment-filled spouts solidified, surrounded by a landscape of Entrada sandstone. 

Snow Canyon State Park
It's hard to imagine a person getting lost in natural landscape within minutes of shopping malls, subdivisions and busy downtown streets. But Snow Canyon State Park, 11 miles northwest of St. George, is such a place. 

Nine Mile Canyon
Every year, tens of thousands of visitors brave miles of dusty dirt roads for a glimpse at Nine Mile Canyon rock art. 

Anasazi State Park
Along Scenic Byway U-12 near the town of Boulder in southern Utah are the remnants of a 12th-century Anasazi Indian village. 

Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park
All sand is not alike, and the fine-grained texture of the sand at Coral Pink Sand Dunes in southern Utah makes it particularly appealing. It is a place to play and also a place to ponder. 

Cedar Breaks National Monument
Another of Utah's top tourist attractions is Cedar Breaks National Monument, a miniature Bryce Canyon located 23 miles east of Cedar City on U-148. 

Fremont Indian State Park
While excavating for a new freeway through central Utah, construction workers uncovered a centuries-old Indian village in Clear Creek Canyon.