Western travel: Stories, tips, guidance to places of interest for travelers in the western United States and Canada.
My new novel, ‘Tail of the Lizard,’ takes you face to face with JFK’s assassin amid a subsequent conspiracy. […]
This is the first in a three-part series about summer travel in the Canadian Rockies By Craig Davis, Craigslegztravels.com When anyone is planning a trip to the Canadian Rockies, they usually say they’re going to […]
A fast-paced tour of three of Utah’s national parks — Arches, Bryce Canyon, Zion — reveals a colorful kaleidoscope in the state’s varying geology and rock formations. […]
Visitors to Arches National Park in Utah are drawn to the 2,000 arches but discover there is much more to see amid towering rock formations. […]
The east side of Zion National Park is an other-worldy realm of slickrock formations etched by eons of weathering, highlighted by the Checkerboard Mesa. It is an intriguing flip-side to popular Zion Canyon. […]
Bryce Canyon National Park is a whimsical place where eons of erosion have created an arena-like amphitheater filled with humanoid-like hoodoos. […]
Traveling before Memorial Day and after Labor Day is a way to avoid peak crowds, summer heat at national parks and popular destinations. That was reinforced while visiting Utah’s biggest attractions. […]
Robert Redford’s Sundance Mountain Ski Resort is a refreshing alternative to the glitzy Utah ski resorts, and it’s cheaper to ski, too. […]
The Avenue of the Giants, a 32-mile drive through the redwood forest in northern California, is an unforgettable pathway to viewing the largest stand of old-growth redwoods in the world. […]
A canceled flight that led to an unplanned road trip from Phoenix to San Diego provided an eye-opening journey through a wide range of desert terrain. Throw in the quirky Space Age Lodge and an army of wind turbines, and the trip had an otherworldly feel. […]
Edmonton is well known for the Great Gretzky and the champion Oilers of the 1980s. It took Vern “Dry Hole” Hunter to pave the way by imploring his crew to “drill one more meter” and spark the oil boom in western Canada. There’s more to modern Edmonton, including a surprising Brazilian steakhouse. […]
Surprising discovery in the woods at Snowmass Ski Area, but the Hunter S. Thompson shrine remains elusive after an exhaustive search. […]
The images in the surroundings leave an indelible impression like a masterpiece on a wall. That may be why New Mexico is the land of artists. Because art is everywhere in the land. […]
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