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National Parks Canyonlands National Park, Utah Canyonlands
National Park is the largest and most magnificent of Utah's
national parks. Canyonlands is a bewildering tangle of canyons,
plateaus, fissures, faults, pierced by arches and caverns, and
penetrated by only a handful of dead-end roads. The 527 square
miles of the park are just the core of a much larger wilderness
that stretches to the horizon in every direction. Canyonlands
National Park focuses on the Y-shaped confluence of the Green
and Colorado rivers, buried deep in the desert forty miles
southwest of Moab. With no road down to the rivers, the park
therefore splits into three different sections. The Needles,
east of the Colorado, is a red-rock wonderland of sandstone
pinnacles and hidden meadows that's a favorite with hikers. The
Maze, west of the rivers, is a labyrinth of tortuous canyons.
The Island in the Sky offers astonishing views across the whole
park and beyond, with several over