Places barbarapreston Wants to Go

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.