by Don McGowan | Jul 19, 2020 | July 2020
Between Boulder City and Escalante, Utah the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument includes the middle watershed of the Escalante River’s 90-mile run from the confluence of Birch Creek and Upper Valley Creek on the eastern slopes of the Escalante Mountains...
by Don McGowan | Jul 11, 2020 | July 2020
One of the greatest joys of my life is the knowledge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park I have had the good fortune to accumulate over the past sixty-five years of visiting, and then living, in this awesome landscape, Shaconage. So when Bonnie and I left...
by Don McGowan | Jul 4, 2020 | July 2020
Utah Highway 12, that beautiful All-American Road, connects US 89 west of Bryce Canyon Junction and Utah Highway 24 at Torrey to the northeast. In 1933 the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) completed the section between Boulder CIty and Escalante which had previously...
by Don McGowan | Jun 27, 2020 | June 2020
Rising over 8,000′ in elevation, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon fronts the Kaibab National Forest. Within the North Rim’s footprint the Cape Royal Road and the Point Imperial Road will lead you through amazing forests of mixed conifer and aspen (Populus...
by Don McGowan | Jun 20, 2020 | June 2020
It is just a shade under thirty-six miles from the highest point on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Richland Balsam Mountain to the end of the Parkway at Oconaluftee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is a route that passes through some of the most wonderful vistas...
