Canyonlands is a colorful landscape of sedimentary sandstones eroded into countless canyons, mesas and buttes by the Colorado River and its tributaries.

Polliann waving to the camera!

View points don't get much better than this.

Yes. It's as dangerous as it looks!

Canyons, buttes and mesas as far as the eye can see

See Buddy sitting on the sign? He loved the parks!

Black Canyon is behind us.

Here's the river in Black Canyon

This is a petrified redwood tree stump at Florrisant Fossil Beds National Monument - just west of Pikes's Peak.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Another amazing formation

Erosion has shaped colorful Claron limestones, sandstones and mudstones into thousands of spires, fins, pinnacles and mazes.

These formations are collectively called "hoodoos."

These"hoodoos" stand in horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters along the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in Utah.

The last of the national parks we visited in Utah. Zion NP is located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin and Mojave Desert provinces.

Pretty bridge pathway

A creek along one of our walks

Soaring cliffs surronded us.

Zion is an ancient Hebrew word meaning a place of refuge or sanctuary.

Here you can see just how tall some of the cliffs were. Just as we got back to our vehicle, a couple of deer walked right by us.