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“Stepping out onto any lookout, you are invited to connect with an amazing example of some of the most unusual terrain on this planet, making you feel as though you are stepping foot on the edge of another world.”

Book:A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip

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“Unkar Delta at Mile 73 The layers of brick red sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone of the Dox formation deposited a billion years ago, erode easily, giving the landscape an open, rolling character very different that the narrow, limestone walled canyon upstream, both in lithology and color, fully fitting Van Dyke’s description of “raspberry-red color, tempered with a what-not of mauve, heliotrope, and violet.” Sediments flowing in from the west formed deltas, floodplains, and tidal flats, which indurated into these fine-grained sedimentary rocks thinly laid deposits of a restful sea, lined with shadows as precise as the staves of a musical score, ribboned layers, an elegant alteration of quiet siltings and delicious lappings, crinkled water compressed, solidified, lithified.”

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“We never fell ill, not once during one year in the U.S. national parks--perhaps proof of the therapeutic properties of our natural world.”

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“Most don't enter through a gated entrance as is done at so many other national parks, but through invisible passageways by sea.”

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Book:A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip

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“Capitol Reed is filled with geology that takes shape, color, and dimension to a level beyond comprehension.”

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“Carlsbad Caverns National Park is best described as living artwork.”

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“My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice.”

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“I had not been prepared for my employer’s approach to vehicular navigation, which was a simple case of being unable to tell the difference between a very large, multi-windowed van that could accommodate a mobile disco and a Formula One racer.”

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