Aztec Butte is one of the more unique hikes in the Island in the Sky region of Canyonlands National Park. The trail crosses level grasslands and climbs a steep slope to a dome-shaped butte rising above the mesa. Alcoves along the rim of the butte house Puebloan granaries, which early inhabitants used for storage. A loop around the top of Aztec Butte visits two such… Read more.

Whale Rock is located above Upheaval Dome, a unique natural feature on the western end of a magnificent mesa in Canyonlands National Park known as the Island in the Sky. There are two popular theories for what caused the bizarre dome/crater, but neither explains how a whale of a rock ended up stretched across the mesa nearby. This long sandstone formation looks like a… Read more.