From Bryce Canyon to the next stop, Capitol Reef National Park, the drive is 2 hours if you go via Utah 63 and Utah 22 or 2.5 hours if you take Utah 12 the entire way. The final two parks take a ...

Across Utah, it is the state's national parks that seem to draw in the most tourists from around the world. With five national parks, dubbed the Mighty 5, Utah has more national parks than nearly ...

Traffic to Utah’s national parks ramps up in March. In 2023, the number of visitors to Arches tripled from February to March. At Zion, visitation jumped from 133,000 visitors in February to more ...

From the steep, sublime Zion Canyon to the imagination-igniting hoodoos of Bryce, here's how to uncover the best of all five Utah national parks. By Maya Silver. February 7, 2023.

Utah’s Mighty 5 national parks are famous among park lovers. Images of Arches , Bryce and Zion are all over social media, but you don’t hear as much about Capitol Reef and Canyonlands.

Blame our state’s overwhelmingly successful “Mighty Five” campaign, launched in 2013, which aimed to bring more visitors to Utah’s five national parks: Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef ...

Visitors took in the views at any of Utah’s five national parks — almost always next to a swarm of strangers. Those who journeyed to Utah’s “Mighty 5” in 2021 remember these scenes.

Utah's 46 state parks, combined, attracted over 12.9 million visits in 2024, a 7.5% increase over the previous record set in 2023, according to a KSL.com analysis of Utah Division of State Parks data.

As the home of five US national parks, more than 40 state parks, and 15 world-class ski resorts, Utah is an oasis for outdoor enthusiasts.. I've traveled to all 50 US states and all 63 major ...

Utah state parks are all-too-often overlooked. After all, it’s hard to imagine a visit to the state's spellbinding desert landscape without a plan to visit its national parks.

Utah has five national parks — Arches, Canyonlands, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef and Zion. Rep. Eliason said in exchange, the state could keep some of the money the parks generate.