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Christmas Tree – This is the Place – Salt Lake City, Utah

Christmas Tree - This is the Place - Salt Lake City, Utah

A decorated Christmas tree with lights covered in snow at This is the Place Heritage Park in the Wasatch Foothills above Salt Lake City, Utah.  The park is an open-air museum featuring historic buildings and documents the arrival of the Mormon (LDS) pioneers in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley July 24, 1847.

Desert Meander of the Colorado River – Moab, Utah

Desert Meander of the Colorado River - Moab, Utah

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.