by Don McGowan | Jan 8, 2021 | January 2021
East of the eastern entrance of Capitol Reef National Park Utah Highway 24 passes through an area of low Bentonite hills beyond which lies the sandstone uplift of the Caineville Reef. Not nearly as spectacular as its tortured and rocky sibling to the west, the...
by Don McGowan | Jan 2, 2021 | January 2021, Uncategorized
As the autumn in the Southern Appalachians began to shed its foliage and the temperature ranges between day and night began to stretch themselves toward extremes, the valleys of Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County found themselves regularly filled with tidal...
by Don McGowan | Dec 26, 2020 | December 2020, Uncategorized
Over the course of the past several years Capitol Reef National Park has become one of my favorite public lands from among the many that we share. It is a wonderful amalgam of human and natural history in one of the most beautiful settings the Colorado Plateau has to...
by Don McGowan | Dec 18, 2020 | December 2020, Uncategorized
Northeastward from Newfound Gap the Appalachian Trail rises around the southeastern face of Mount Ambler, while US 441, Newfound Gap Road, wraps around the western slopes of the mountain before descending into the valley where West Prong of the Little Pigeon forms on...
by Don McGowan | Dec 13, 2020 | December 2020
Seventy million years ago the northwestern corner of New Mexico, south of what is now the fossil fuel mecca of Farmington was the delta of a river which flowed eastward into an inland sea that covered most of what is now the Enchanted State. Somewhere in geologic time...
by Don McGowan | Dec 5, 2020 | December 2020
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is a sacred, special place. Located along the northeastern border of Arizona and southeastern Utah, and wholly within the Navajo (Dine) Nation, it is a land of massive sandstone buttes and mesas enfolding five square miles of lithic...
