<p style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.08in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font color="#5f4b32"><font face="calibri, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="3"><span style="background: #fbf0d9;">Late summer and fall monsoons bring flash floods to the slot canyons across southern Utah, and Canyonlands National Park is no exception. With the danger, however, comes a beautiful array of temporary waterfalls. </span></font></font></font></p>

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Experience Canyonlands National Park

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Waterfall-Watching in Monsoon Season

Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

<p style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.08in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font color="#5f4b32"><font face="calibri, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="3"><span style="background: #fbf0d9;">Canyonlands National Park is full of superlative views, but glimpsing the canyons under Mesa Arch is one of the best. Make the short hike here for sunrise for a once-in-a-lifetime snapshot.</span></font></font></font></p>

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Framing Canyon Country with Mesa Arch

Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

<p style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.08in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2;">The Maze District is the most remote and rugged part of the park, but worth the effort if you have the right vehicle. Ordinary cars cannot handle the roads here, but serious mountain bikers, hikers, and 4X4'ers will have a field day. </p>

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Finding Yourself in the Maze

The Maze, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

<p style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.08in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2;">Moab is one of the best national park gateway towns in the West: Picture a vibrant desert outpost full of adobe, souvenir shops, and trails, plus drop-dead scenery in every direction. It is a great home base—or stopping point—for a Canyonlands adventure.</p>

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Truckin' to Moab

Signpost, Moab, Utah.

<p style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.08in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font color="#5f4b32"><font face="calibri, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="3"><span style="background: #fbf0d9;">A distinctive red pillar, Chimney Rock is a great overnight destination in the Maze District, perched above the Colorado River. There are hiking trails in the Maze proper as well as mountain biking and extreme 4X4 trails on its rims.</span></font></font></font></p>

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Backpacking to Chimney Rock

Chimney Rock, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

<p style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.08in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><font color="#5f4b32"><font face="calibri, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="3"><span style="background: #fbf0d9;">Seen here at a distance, the Needles is the southernmost district of Canyonlands National Park, home to a battalion of sandstone towers and a number of rugged trails. From the Island in the Sky Visitor Center, it is 150 miles by road to the Needles, but it is only 15 miles as the crow flies.</span></font></font></font></p>

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Experiencing the Needles

The Needles, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

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