Hiking and backpacking in the West

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Utah Hiking in Canyonlands National Park - Three distinctive districts. Hiking Trails in the Manti - La Sal National Forest - in-depth descriptions including the Fish Creek and Huntington Canyon National Recreation Trails. Hiking in Wasatch-Cache National Forest - Detailed descriptions on a bunch of paths that make up the thousand miles of hiking in these Utah Mountains. Zion National Park - Trails for everyone - Easy walks, multiple-days backpacking trips, and three ways to hike the Narrows. With maps. Land of the Rainbow Sky - Rainbow Bridge Trail, Utah - dynamite backpacking on one of the most spectacular yet overlooked trails of the canyon country southwest. Great Western Trail - Planned to become a continuous corridor stretching from Mexico to Canada, and traversing some of the most spectacular scenery in the West. Arizona In the Presence of the Divine - Antelope Canyon, Arizona - a place where light and sandstone come together as perhaps they do nowhere else on this planet.

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