After driving from New York to Las Vegas with my brother on a drive-away mission, we rented a car for a few days to explore some of the awesome parks in this part of the country.

Zion was the last of the parks we visited. We knew that this trip would be more of a preview of the parks and that we wouldn’t have time to to fully immerse ourselves the way we would have liked. We considered it to be more of a scouting trip for future adventures. We weren’t disappointed—it is a beautiful area, and so different from the landscape of the northeast US that we call home.

Our only regret is that we didn’t have more time…