#11: Beyond Utah’s Mighty Five National Parks

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Society & Culture, Nature, Personal Journals, Places & Travel, Science

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The five national parks in Utah are spectacular and draw millions of visitors each year for a good reason. But the public lands surrounding these parks are also packed with natural wonders worth experiencing. You could spend countless days visiting the national monuments, state parks, and tribal parks in southern Utah, gazing at their one-of-a-kind rock formations, hunting for ancient Puebloan ruins, and hiking through pristine landscapes. In this episode, we talk about some of the sites you should consider adding to your itinerary on your next road trip to the Southwest. Some of the places we discuss include: Monument Valley Goosenecks State Park (SP) Valley of the Gods Hovenweep National Monument (NM) Natural Bridges NM Bear Ears NM Goblin Valley SP Dead Horse Point SP Grand Staircase Escalante NM Cedar Breaks NM And more... See all our links here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You kind of take a look at it and think, well, this must not be it because I'm not sure I can fit through that first section.
0:09.0	That's what I like about slot canyons. I have to I have to know the night before how much pizza to eat before I go into those things This is the Dear Bob and Sioux Podcast,
0:34.0	Our Stories of Adventures and Misadventures as we traveled to all of the U.S.
0:38.0	National Parks and Public Lands.
0:40.0	I'm Matt Smith.
0:41.0	And I'm Karen Smith. We are the authors of the Dear Bob and Sioux series of books.
0:46.0	Today we're talking about 10 of our favorite places in southern Utah beyond the mighty five.
0:52.0	The mighty five are the national parks that most
0:54.8	people focus on when planning a trip to Utah and as amazing as these parks are
0:59.7	there's so much more to see and do in southern Utah. We have a long list to share with you of
1:04.2	our favorite places and public lands. Many of them have views and hikes that are
1:08.8	every bit as spectacular as the National Parks, but they're more off the beaten path.
1:14.0	If you're planning a trip to Utah, it's really worth adding some of these places to your itinerary.
1:19.0	To kick things off, we discuss why we wanted to record this episode and shed some light on the lesser known
1:25.0	locations and at the end of the episode we'll answer a question from a listener in our mailbag segment.
1:36.0	I like the subject of this episode.
1:38.0	You do.
1:39.0	Yeah, Utah.
1:40.0	Southern Utah because we love Southern Utah so much and everyone's so focused on the national parks.
1:48.6	They are. And which are fantastic. And we were too, I think when we first went to southern Utah but there is so
1:56.1	much more there other than the national parks so many great places public lands
2:02.1	places parks and that's what we're going to talk about in this
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