![]() The Holey Land (See: Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, Fiery Furnace) It’s called the Grand Staircase, but you could think of it as a peeling painting, a dozen layers on display from Bryce to the Grand Canyon. Over 150 million years the soft-ish stone sediments in these five spots relented in weird, beautiful ways, cutting open a color spectrum of reds, pinks, yellows, grays and whites, all dappled with green. ![]() That’d be like sprinting through the Louvre.) All five of the national parks in Utah are within a sandstone’s throw of it - in fact, you could drive through them all in a single overstimulated afternoon. Something good happened a while back at 38˚ north latitude. ![]() Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, Zion: Five sculptural interpretations of the Colorado Plateau, cut with a big, slow chisel. (That’s not only true (they’re not extinct after all!), it’s a helpful mnemonic for remembering the Utah national parks from east to west)
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