Nairn Falls, Nairn Falls Provincial Park, September 2025 Situated along the Green River, Nairn Falls is a popular destination between Whistler and Pemberton, British Columbia, notable for its frothy, multi-tiered drop through a narrow gorge. Nairn Falls Provincial Park is easily accessible from the Sea to Sky Highway (Route 99), though the parking area fills …
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Harpers Corner Trail, Dinosaur National Monument, June 2022 Following a pinyon- and juniper-studded ridgeline out to its terminus, the Harpers Corner Trail features stunning panoramic vistas high above canyon country in Colorado/Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument. The landscape below, cut and eroded by the Green and Yampa Rivers, spans millions of years of geologic time, from …
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Mitten Park Trail, Dinosaur National Monument, June 2022 Situated just north of Echo Park on the Colorado side of Dinosaur National Monument, a sudden break in the cream-colored Weber sandstone produces a multi-hued swirl of color—a peculiar twisting formation where the horizontal shelves suddenly thrust upward into vertical stripes, culminating in one of the area’s …
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Steamboat Rock, Dinosaur National Monument, June 2022 Roughly straddling the border between Utah and Colorado, Echo Park Road extends 12 miles and connects the paved Harpers Corner Road with its namesake Echo Park—a hidden flat near the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument. Here travelers will find a campground and …
Sound of Silence Trail, Dinosaur National Monument, June 2022 Like Canyonlands or Capitol Reef in southern Utah, Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado features nearly two dozen sedimentary rock layers that span the Permian through Cretaceous periods (66-300 million years ago). The view from Cub Creek Road at the trailhead for the Sound of …
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Jones Hole Trail, Dinosaur National Monument, June 2022 Although most famous for its prehistoric fossils, Dinosaur National Monument in northeast Utah and northwest Colorado covers more than 200,000 acres of canyon country that rivals the “Mighty Five” national parks farther south. Here the Green and Yampa Rivers—and their various tributaries—have carved a labyrinth of snaking …
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Utah’s Canyonlands National Park is sliced into three quadrants by the deep cuts of the Colorado River and the Green River: Island in the Sky, Needles, and The Maze. Yet due to the deep incisions formed by the two rivers, very few roadside overlooks, or even backcountry trails, offer a glimpse of either. An exception …
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