
5 Parks, 1,513 Miles, and 15.6 oz of Wild Berry Skittles It felt like we had been planning this trip for months; reader: we had been. When the question of where to go for spring break came up, it was pre-Trail+Hearth. We ruled out Florida, because, well, Florida. We’d done Miami the year before for Ultra, which was its own adventure, and the idea of spring break crowds in Florida held exactly zero appeal. We drew on a different memory: an abbreviated Utah experience after bailing from…
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Picking out a place to stay when visiting Arches and Canyonlands can be a bit overwhelming, especially when you consider the fact that Canyonlands has additional districts that can require hours of driving to reach making day trips more difficult. We’ve broken down this post to cover a few key areas for you. Most visitors…
Springdale is one long strip — hotels, restaurants, e-bike rentals, and gear shops pressed up against the canyon wall, all of it full even in shoulder season. Lines at coffee shops start the day. By late afternoon, most of the park empties out at once, most headed to town, hungry. Know where you’re going, when,…
Moab has a personality and it isn’t subtle. Jeeps and other 4×4 toys roll through the main drag, bikes everywhere, dust on everything. The food scene reflects Moab: approachable, filling, and unpretentious. This isn’t Springdale, where the dining leans upscale and the resort menus do most of the heavy lifting. Moab feeds people who just…
Somewhere on I-5, watching the suburbs of Tacoma give way to actual trees, it occurred to me that we’d been talking about this trip for four years. Olympic National Park- rainforests, wild coastline, mountains- had been sitting on the list through a move, a pandemic, and the general chaos of early parenthood. In the summer…
We made it to the sunrise set, stumbled back to the strip at 11am, ate a cheeseburger at 4pm, and somewhere in that haze decided we were done with EDC. By morning, we checked out and pointed the rental Cadillac towards Zion. We had a Sony a6300, a wide angle we were testing, and waterproof…
We had one night at Bryce and I’d scouted Inspiration Point during the day, in between our various hikes of Queens Garden and the Navajo Loop. I set an alarm I didn’t need. Pre-dawn in March at 8,100 feet means cold that announces itself before you’ve unfolded the tripod. I blew on my hands between…