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Featured Utah locations are listed below, and shown on the Utah map - these are the most scenic places in the state, and include arches, canyons, lakes, mountains, ancient ruins and eroded rock formations. Alternatively, see the full listings of all national parks, monuments, recreation areas and historic sites, national forests and state parks in Utah.

NPS Units
ARCHES National Park - many arches and other sandstone formations
BRYCE CANYON National Park - delicately sculptured orange and pink rocks
CANYONLANDS National Park - vast area of remote and spectacular canyon country
CAPITOL REEF National Park - slickrock, steep cliffs and narrow canyons; sandstone of many colors and forms
CEDAR BREAKS National Monument - high multicolored eroded cliff face
DINOSAUR National Monument - many fossilised bones and remote canyons
GLEN CANYON National Recreation Area - spectacular desert region with red rock canyons, centred around Lake Powell
GOLDEN SPIKE National Historical Site - replica steam trains and old railroad grades, in deslotate, uninhabited terrain
HOVENWEEP National Monument - ancient ruins in remote country close to the Colorado border
TIMPANOGOS CAVE National Monument - central attraction of Timpanogos Mountains
NATURAL BRIDGES National Monument - three large natural bridges in canyon country
ZION National Park - huge sandstone cliffs and sheer, narrow canyons

Bryce Canyon National Park
Sunrise Point

Other Major Scenic Places
ANTELOPE ISLAND State Park - stark, mountainous island in the Great Salt Lake
CEDAR MESA and GRAND GULCH - hundreds of Anasazi ruins in the southeast
DEAD HORSE POINT State Park - high promontory overlooking Colorado River canyons
FLAMING GORGE National Recreation Area - dramatic red cliffs above a large artificial lake
GOBLIN VALLEY State Park - thousands of strangely-shaped formations
GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE National Monument - great expanse of scenic wilderness, with narrow canyons and countless rock formations
KODACHROME BASIN State Park - eroded cliffs and narrow spires
MONUMENT VALLEY - world-famous red rock buttes and mesas
MOUNT TIMPANOGOS Region - scenic area of the Wasatch Mountains
RED CANYON - eroded formations near Bryce Canyon
SNOW CANYON State Park - red rocks, white cliffs and black lava

Monument Valley
US 163 approaching Monument Pass

Miscellaneous Locations
Anasazi State Park - museum and a small excavated pueblo
Bear Lake - deep blue lake on the Utah-Idaho border
Canyon Rims Recreation Area - vast wilderness east of Canyonlands
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park - miles of colorful shifting sands
Dark Canyon - wild, lengthy, branched canyon complex with difficult access
Dixie National Forest - large areas of scenic land in the southwest
Escalante State Park - petrified wood and a reservoir
Factory Butte - isolated peak surrounded by desert lands and strange rock formations
Goosenecks State Park - entrenched meanders of the San Juan River
Little Sahara Recreation Area - extensive sand dunes in a remote corner of Utah
Mexican Hat - small settlement at the centre of some dramatic landscapes
Nebo Loop Scenic Byway - winding road through the southern Wasatch Mountains
Paria Rimrocks - colorful strata and strangely shaped rocks
Potash Road - scenic byway beside the Colorado River, west of Moab
Salt Lake Desert - endless stretches of white desert
San Rafael Swell - geologically unusual, little known part of central Utah
Sand Hollow State Park - popular, recently created park featuring red rocks, sand dunes and a reservoir
Valley of the Gods - small scale version of Monument Valley
Wasatch Mountain State Park - Utah's most popular state park; many kinds of recreation, in wooded, hilly surroundings
Many narrow canyons in Utah are described in the Slot Canyon section, including Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River.

Great Salt Lake Desert
Water on the Salt Lake Desert

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