by itadmin | Sep 21, 2018 | FALL
Daytripping through the wild horse country of Skull Valley. By Robert Hammer One Sunday morning in late June, three parched and weary men staggered eastward across a sage-covered valley some 40 miles south of the Great Salt Lake. What little water they had found the...
by Darby Doyle | Sep 21, 2018 | Backcountry Chef, FALL
Savory meat pies are all the more delicious with wild game (and stout) Autumn is a pretty magical time in Utah. As the temperatures drop and the leaves change, the air itself seems to invigorate the senses. It’s my favorite time of year to go camping and fly fishing...
by Katherine Pioli | Sep 21, 2018 | FALL
Stansbury Park star parties offer a glimpse into the final frontier When I arrive at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex (also known as SPOC), near Tooele, Denise Larsen and Leslie Fowler, secretary-treasurer and vice-president of the Salt Lake Astronomical Society...
by itadmin | Sep 21, 2018 | FALL
Exploring shades of autumn in the Stansbury Mountains By Levi Rogers They’re hard to see from the Salt Lake Valley, obscured as they are by the more immediate Oquirrh Mountains, but the Stansbury Mountains are a tucked-away little jewel of a mountain range an hour’s...
by ChrisVanocur | Sep 21, 2018 | FALL
Iconic desert sculpture stands tall despite neglect I think that I shall never see a poem as lonely as “The Tree of Utah.” This nearly 90-foot, 900-ton sculpture stands alone, yet proudly, in Utah’s West Desert (about an hour and a half from Salt Lake City). It was...
by Kathleen Curry | Sep 21, 2018 | FALL
The highway to Great Basin National Park is the road less traveled This serene national park is only a four-hour drive from Salt Lake City—it’s also one of the least visited in the entire parks system. More’s the pity, because the austere beauty of Great Basin...
