Zion National Park is a canyon of contrasts. Towering sandstone walls glow amber at sunrise. Rivers carve emerald green corridors across desert rock. Hidden slot canyons whisper the promise of a ...

Lay your eyes on a desert canyon, and there's a good chance you will be seduced by the spellbinding way that the bands of sun-kissed rock, often in shades of red and pink and sandy gold, rise all ...

(CNN) — At first glance, the desert landscape of Southern Utah seems like a sweeping, sun-baked canvas — wide open and endless. But tucked deep within its sandstone folds are narrow slivers of magic: ...

The sounds of a slow swish and churn bounce off the coarse walls as you shift your shoulders to wedge between another narrow slice of canyon. Small cuppings and carved-away hollows above the sandy ...

Back in the day, I would avidly read about box canyons and “slot canyons” in western stories by Zane Grey, Louis L’Amour and Elmore Leonard, and these niche wilderness zones play well as scenes for ...