Wyoming, Utah offer open spaces and natural wonders
While there are plenty of open spaces in California, a few
states to the east offer a glimpse of what the land was like when
the pioneers first headed west. Places such as Yellowstone National
Park
– which touches Wyoming, Montana and Idaho – are home to
abundant wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison and
elk.
Wyoming, Utah offer open spaces and natural wonders
While there are plenty of open spaces in California, a few states to the east offer a glimpse of what the land was like when the pioneers first headed west. Places such as Yellowstone National Park – which touches Wyoming, Montana and Idaho – are home to abundant wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison and elk.
The park was established as the first national park in 1872, and set a precedent for other parks to come, as a place that would be preserved and protected for future generations.
Yellowstone’s uniqueness doesn’t end there. It has more than 10,000 hydrothermal features, including 300 geysers in the park, with Old Faithful being the most famous.
In neighboring Utah, Arches National Monument was established in 1929 to preserve 2,000 natural sand arches near the Moab desert. President Herbert Hoover signed the legislation. The Monument was made into Arches National Park in 1971 with an act of Congress that recognized more than 10,000 years of cultural history among the arches and canyons. The longest of the arches is Landscape Arch, which is 306 feet from base to base.
Both of these parks can be visited throughout the year, and information for planning a trip can be found online at www.nps.gov/yell or www.nps.org/arch.
