Corona, New Mexico
'Cowboy Ruckus'
Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.
Places I've been
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Corona, New Mexico
Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.
Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.
Roswell, New Mexico
A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.
New Mexico
One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.
Jensen, Utah
This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Dugway, Utah
The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.
Green River, Utah
Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
Jensen, Utah
Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.
Castle Valley, Utah
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
Moab, Utah
A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.
Thompson Springs, Utah
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.
Moab, Utah
It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Moab, Utah
This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.
Green River, Utah
This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.
Thompson, Utah
A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.
Moab, Utah
A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.