Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

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

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

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

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A replica that won't float away.

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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.