Colorado/Utah National Park Roadtrip

I’ve done a few National Park roadtrips that hopefully I’ll get around to sharing someday. Most recent one was one seeing some of the Colorado and Utah parks. Mrs. BruceJender and I flew into Grand Junction, CO and went straight to Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP and stayed in Montrose. Did some of the hikes and stopped at all of the pullouts.



Highly recommend making the trip down to east portal. It’s beautiful down there and got to watch a few folks fly fishing.



After that headed to Mesa Verde NP and did the cliff dwelling tours and a few hikes. We stayed in Cortez, CO.





From there we headed to Utah. We stayed in Moab, which is a great town overall. We started with Canyonlands NP seeing Mesa Arch and the rim trail. Did a few other hikes then ended the day with the Upheaval Dome trail.





Still in Moab we then spent two days in Arches NP. In those two days we did almost every hike under 8 miles. The only thing we weren’t able to do on our list was fiery furnace, since we were unable to get the guided tour tickets.







From Arches we headed to Blue Valley Domes just outside of Capitol Reef NP. My iPhone was able to get some incredible shots of the stars. Maybe the only pictures I’ve gotten on a phone that I will say “do it justice.”