Utah Trails

Skip the beaten path and make the most of your visit to southwest Utah with these tips from a local.

Like your life and limbs intact? Then you'd better get skilled before visiting these trails.

Jeep Arch is less than 2 miles from Corona, but feels like it's a million miles from its crowds.

Get on a high ledge, a crumbly cliff, or a knife-edge ridge and your body will recognize the feeling before your brain catches on.

While the crowds hit Arches National Park, take a detour for a taste of sweet fall solitude.

We’re all for tagging summits, but the best way to experience a peak? Hike around it. You’ll see a mountain’s many faces on a single, peak-circling loop. These 14 trips circumnavigate the best of the best.

It's one of the classic day hikes of the United States—and with views like this, it's easy to see why.

A mother-and-son road trip through all five of Utah’s national parks in one week is the perfect way to make up for lost time—or court disaster.

After a lifetime plumbing the backcountry of the Southwest, David Roberts finds himself face to face with mysteries past and present.

Hit these endangered trails to vote with your feet and send a message that protection pays off.

The upside of the year’s shortest days? It’s easier to beat the sun to the trailhead. Summit these east-facing high points for the month’s best sunrise shows.

Destinations Editor Maren Horjus shares four spooky, Halloween-ready tales from her new book, Haunted Hikes

Escape the dog days with these deliciously cool trails.

Utah’s otherworldly redrock canyons may not only be best in the country, but the best on Earth.

The federal government is considering changes to national monuments around the country. Hike these trails to get a ground-level view of what's at stake.

Follow in the footsteps of presidents, pioneers and prospectors on these hikes. Just don’t get snowed in and eat your friends.

Skip the crowds and catch the festivities on the trail.

Concentrated beauty

With two national parks and endless wilderness nearby, this may be America's best-situated adventure town.

In Canyonlands’ backcountry, a family learns that the wonder of our parks belongs to anyone who goes looking for it.

Five Native American tribes band together to protect ancestral lands in southern Utah.

Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Swimming holes, waterfalls, petroglyphs, and an idyllic campsite—all just a few miles deep in Dinosaur National Monument. BY ROSE CONRY

Go for solitude with a DIY holiday celebration outdoors (pack out your tinsel), or go luxe and enjoy one of these festive feasts before tackling some of the country’s finest trails.