The Grand Canyon continues to be the most popular of our national parks. While millions gaze at its cliffs each year, only 15,000 float through the canyon on the Colorado River. A landmark portrait of the Grand Canyon, this is the only photography book to document this amazing journey from river level. Now this classic is back in print, with an updated preface and introduction and a dozen new photographs. A journal in photos and words, The Hidden...

This book is intended to be a guide to the prospector who would like to go out on the weekend, take in some beautiful scenery, get some exercise, and maybe find some gold. One criteria for including a gold-bearing are in this book was that the author had personally found place gold in the area. Any area rumored to have gold where the author could not find it--irregardless of how reliable the source--did not make it into the book. There is a section...

Includes a broad range of 4WD trails suitable for anyone with a sport utility vehicle, step-by-step directions for trails, ratings for the degree of difficulty and scenic beauty of each 4WD trail listed, driving times and distances for each trail, GPS coordinates for each trail and tips on four-wheel drive techniques.

The Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. The almost inaccessible Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming was a station on the Outlaw Trail well known to Butch Cassidy. To the south, in Utah, was the inhospitable Robbers’...

The 28-mile drive from the visitor center to Devils garden includes side trips to the Windows Section and Delicate Arch Overlook. A direct return to the visitor center is 19 miles. Allow a minimum of two and one-half to three hours driving time for this 46-mile round trip. Pull-outs are provided at numerous points along the route for your convenience if you wish to take photos or enjoy the view.

Zion is a place where even unnamed features are magnficent. Surprises are everywhere. Some loom large, their splendor obvious from afar. Others adorn the landscape with a subtle grace. To explore this land is to witness earth's past and present glory. Zion National Park, located in southern Utah, was first set aside in 1909 as Mukuntuweap National Monument, to preserve dramatic canyons and cliffs caused by erosive forces.