Canyonlands National Park Guide

Canyonlands is the biggest and wildest of Utah’s parks, a vast maze where the Green and Colorado rivers carve the high desert into canyons within canyons — and most people only see its most accessible district, the Island in the Sky, a mesa that stands like a peninsula 1,000 feet above the surrounding canyons with jaw-dropping overlooks in every direction. Mesa Arch, a low span perched on the very lip of a cliff, frames the sunrise so perfectly it’s a photographer’s pilgrimage. Beyond Island in the Sky lie the Needles and the near-inaccessible Maze — country so rugged it swallows the unprepared.