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White Rim Overlook Trail: The Best Hidden Gem in Canyonlands National Park

Canyonlands National Park, located in Moab, Utah, has some of the most dramatic landscapes in the United States, with massive mesas towering over 1,000 feet above the desert floor below. While there’s lots of overlooks and trails to choose from in Canyonlands, the White Rim Overlook Trail is definitely a hidden gem, taking you along the rim of the canyon to one of the park’s most stunning overlooks. So if you want to experience this incredible hike for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about the White Rim Overlook Trail. 

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Corona Arch Trail: The Best Arch Hike in Moab, Utah

Moab, Utah is renowned for its unique sandstone formations and for its national parks, like the aptly named Arches. But it turns out that one of Moab’s most spectacular arches is not in a national park at all. Corona Arch, which sits on Bureau of Land Management land east of Moab, stands at a whopping 105 feet tall with a 140 foot opening at its base. If you want to stand underneath this spectacular natural feature for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about the Corona Arch Trail. 

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Healy Pass Trail: The Best Larch Hike in Banff National Park

Healy Pass is one of the best trails in Banff National Park, taking you through fields of wildflowers in the summertime or groves of golden larches in the autumn and ending with spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains. If you want to explore this incredible hike for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about the Healy Pass Trail. 

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Lake Agnes Tea House Hike: Everything You Need to Know

Lake Louise is one of the most popular spots in the Canadian Rockies—and for good reason! Its milky blue waters and the dramatic surrounding mountains look like something out of a movie. But one of the coolest things about Lake Louise is a bit hidden—it actually is home to the oldest tea house in all of Canada, complete with steaming pots of chai and hearty soups, tucked way up in the mountains (1,300 feet, to be exact!). So if you want to have one of the most unique experiences in the Canadian Rockies for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about the Lake Agnes Tea House hike. 

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Floe Lake Trail in Kootenay National Park: Everything You Need to Know

The Floe Lake Trail, located in Kootenay National Park, has everything you dream of when you imagine the Canadian Rockies—dramatic mountain peaks, ancient glaciers, and vibrantly blue alpine lakes. And, better yet, it doesn’t see a fraction of the crowds that swarm its more popular neighbor, Banff. So if you want to experience this stunning trail for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about the Floe Lake Trail.

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Cassidy Arch Trail: The Best Hike in Capitol Reef National Park

Capitol Reef National Park is known for its unique rock formations and Cassidy Arch is no exception. In fact, this structure, which towers at 400 feet tall, is one of the only natural sandstone arches in Utah that you can actually walk across the top of! If you want to have this unique bucketlist experience for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about the Cassidy Arch Trail. 

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Temple of the Sun and Moon in Capitol Reef National Park: A Complete Guide

Capitol Reef is one of the least visited national parks in Utah and definitely a hidden gem, with charming historical villages, fascinating ancient petroglyphs, and tons of otherworldly rock formations. The Temple of the Sun and the Moon, two enormous sandstone monoliths that tower over the desert floor below, are just a few of these jaw-dropping formations that are a photographer’s dream come true. If you want to explore this incredible spot for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about the Temple of the Sun and the Moon

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Bentonite Hills in Utah: Everything You Need to Know

The tiny town of Hanksville, Utah has exploded in popularity, due to its unique land features that like like they’re from another planet—or even straight out of Lord of the Rings. For example, the Bentonite Hills here look straight out of Mars—enormous mounds of earth, with dizzying swirls of orange, red, and indigo. If you want to experience these otherworldly features for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about the Bentonite Hills in Hanksville, Utah. 

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2024 Recap: The Year of the Polar Extremes

Since 2020, we’ve written an annual end-of-the-year recap to take stock of the year’s adventures and the highs and lows of traveling whilst running our little corner of the internet. I look forward to writing these recaps, as they force me to evaluate our successes and shortcomings over the past year and dream about what we want to accomplish in the year ahead. 2024 was a BIG year for us—our first complete 365 days as self-employed content creators and full-time travelers, with lots of incredible adventures and some really hard challenges along the way. 

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Moonscape Overlook in Hanksville, Utah: The Complete Guide

Hanksville, Utah has become Instagram-famous, thanks to its otherworldly landscapes. Moonscape Overlook is one of its most unique features—a cliff that overlooks the surrounding canyon, with hills, badlands, and rugged monoliths stretching on the desert floor below. If you want to see this jaw-dropping scenery for yourself, here’s everything you need to know about visiting the Moonscape Overlook.

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