The World's Most Beautiful Places
A view of a meander in the Colorado River east of Moab, near Red Cliff Lodge. Parriott Mesa and the Castle Valley can be seen in the distance. Parriot Mesa is named after Dale M. Parriott, who was a Moab settler, and owned a ranch house in Castle Valley. Moab is located in Utah’s red rock country, part of the Colorado Plateau region and gateway to Arches National Park, and Canyonlands.
A view of Split Mountain in Dinosaur National Monument during a summer storm as sunset approaches. Split Mountain is a sharp meander, carved out of the surrounding desert landscape by the Green River, a tributary of the mighty Colorado River. The Green River originates in the Wind River Mountain Range in southeastern Wyoming to the north. Dinosaur National Monument as the name suggests is a world renowned locality for dinosaur fossils, with nearly 800 paleontological sites located in the park. It is known for the Allosaurus, Deinonychus, and Abydosaurus dinosaurs.
Dinosaur National Monument is located on the Utah/Colorado border.
A sign at the Hoover Dam on the border of Arizona and Nevada, acknowledging the nearly 5 years it took the Bureau of Reclamation to construct the dam between its ground breaking in 1931 and its dedication in 1935. Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. When full it is the largest dam by volume in the United States. The dam is currently at the center of concerns about drought and climate change in the desert southwest as the in flow of water from the Colorado River decreases and the volume of water in the dam drops, impacting both power generation, and a water source relied upon for agriculture and domestic consumption by more than 40 million Americans.