Southwest backcountry

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Southwest Backcountry designed to be an informative source for those who enjoy camping, hiking, exploration and appreciate the beauty and history of the west. This site was established to be an informational source depicting images, maps and information about this country’s National Parks & Monuments, National Forests & Wilderness Areas, Ghost Towns & Anasazi Ruins as well as the State Parks and other protected landmarks in Southwestern Utah , Northern Arizona, South Eastern Nevada and the western states

I have highlighted these sites

Places of Interest

•Arches National Park , UT
•Anasazi State Park Museum, UT
•Anasazi Trail (Santa Clara River Preserve), UT
•Antelope Canyon, AZ
•Area 51, NV
•Ash Hot Springs, NV
•Apple Valley, UT
•Angel Canyon, UT
•Antelope Island State Park, UT
•Baker Archaeological Site, NV
•Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness, AZ
•Beaver Dam Wilderness Pioneer Ruins, AZ
•Big Ledge Ruins, UT
•Black Mountain Petroglyph Site, UT
•Buckhorn Wash Pictograph Panel, UT
•Natural Bridges National Monument, UT
•Natural Bridges National Monument – Dinosaur Petroglyph’s
•Bristlecone Loop Trail, UT
•Brian Head, UT
•Blanding, UT – Anasazi Indian Ruins
•Bloomington Cave, UT
•Bloomington Petroglyph Park, UT
•Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
•Buffalo Road Pioneer Ruins. Las Vegas, NV
•Butch Cassidy’s Boyhood Home, UT
•Butler Wash Anasazi Ruins, UT
•Bodie Ghost Town State Historic Park, CA
•Calico Early Man Site, CA
•Calico Mine & Ghost Town, CA
•Capitol Reef National Park, UT
•Capitol Reef National Park, Petroglyph Pullout, UT
•Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, AZ
•Casto Canyon Trail. UT
•Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV
•Cats Claw Canyon Petroglyph’s & Pictograph, AZ
•Cave Valley, UT
•Cannan Gap Petroglyphs, UT
•Canyonlands National Park, UT
•Cedar Breaks National Monument, UT
•Cedar Breaks National Monument Campground, UT
•China Ranch Date Farm, NV
•The Chuckwalla Trail, UT
•Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, UT
•Coconino National Forest, AZ
•Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, UT
•C Trail, UT
•Cove Fort, UT
•Crawdad Canyon Petroglyphs, UT
•The Colorado Scenic Byway (Hwy 128) , UT
•Cottonwood Wash/ Buckhorn Wash, UT
•Death Valley National Park, CA
•Delicate Arch Trail, UT
•Delamar Ghost Town, NV
•Dinosaur Tracksites and Fossil Trails, UT
•Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, UT
•Dixie National Forest, UT
•Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, UT
•Eldorado Canyon, NV
•Elk Meadows Ski and Summer Resort, UT
•Enterprise Reservoir, UT
•Falling Man Petroglyph Site, NV
•Fire Cave – Windstone Arch, NV
•Fremont Indian State Park, UT
•Frisco Ghost Town Site, UT
•Fishlake National Forest, UT
•Fort Harmony, UT
•Fort Pierce Ruins, UT
•Fort Ruby, NV
•Glen Canyon Dam, AZ
•Gordon’s Panel, also known as Shaman’s Gallery, AZ
•Goblin Valley State Park, UT
•Gold Butte Ghost Town, NV
•GoldField, NV
•Gold Springs Ghost Town, NV
•Grafton Ghost Town ,UT
•Grand Canyon – South Rim, AZ
•Great Basin Desert, NV
•Gunlock State Park, UT
•Halfway Stage Station Ruins, UT
•Hamilton Fort, UT
•Hite, UT
•Hobgoblin’s Playground, NV
•Horseshoe Bend – Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, AZ
•Huntsman Pioneer Ruins, Kanes Springs Ranch, NV
•Ice Cave – Dixie National Forest, UT
•Jensen Lime Kiln, UT
•Johnson Ghost Town – Gun Smoke Stage Set, UT
•John G Clark Memorial Cross, NV
•Kane Creek Petroglyphs – Moab, UT
•Kaibab National Forest, AZ
•Kanarraville Lower Falls, UT
•Keyhole Canyon Petroglyphs, NV
•Kodachrome Basin State Park , UT
•Kalob Canyon (Zion National Park), UT
•The Kolob Reservoir Road – Zion National Park, UT
•Lake Hemet, CA
•Lake Mead National Recreation Area, NV
•Las Vegas, NV
•Lee’s Ferry (also Lees Ferry or Lee Ferry), AZ
•Lehman Caves – Great Basin N.P, NV
•Little Black Mountian Petroglyph Site, UT
•Little Pinto Ghost Town, UT
•Logandale Trails System, NV

•Lone Rock – Glen Canyon N.R.A, AZ
•The Lost City Reconstruction, NV
•Mammoth Cave, UT
•Merchant Valley, UT
•Meteor Crater, AZ
•Middle Fork Taylor Creek, UT
•Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail head, UT
•Moccasin Mountain Dinosaur Track Site, AZ
•Mojave Desert. AZ
•Montezuma Castle National Monument, AZ
•Montezuma’s Well Ruins, AZ
•The Moqui Cave, UT
•Mountain Meadow Massacre Site, UT
•Moon Flower Petroglyph’s – Moab, UT
•Monument Valley Tribal Park, UT
•Nampaweap Petroglyphs, AZ
•Navajo Loop Trail, UT
•Navajo National Monument , AZ
•Nelson Ghost Town, NV
•Newhouse Ghost Town Site, UT
•Newspaper Rock Petroglyph’s, UT
•New Harmony Pioneer Lime Kiln Ruins, UT
•North Rim of the Grand Canyon, AZ
•Oak Grove Campground- Dixie NF, UT
•Old Iron Town Ruins, UT
•Old Town Paria Ghost Town & Movie Set
•Old Town Temecula, CA
•Paria Toadstools, UT
•Parowan Front WMA Pioneer Ruins, UT
•Parowan Gap Dinosaur Tracks & Remains, UT
•Parowan Gap Petroglyph’s, UT
•Parowan Gap Caves, UT
•Pa’rus Trail – Zion National Park, UT
•Pinto Ghost Town, UT
•Pioche, Nevada – A Living Ghost Town, NV
•Pioneer Park, UT
•Potash Road Petroglyph’s – Moab, UT
•Power Line Road Petroglyph’s, NV
•Racetrack Playa, CA
•Rachel, NV – Extraterrestrial Highway
•Range Creek Canyon, UT
•Red Cliffs Recreation Area, UT
•Red Cliffs Recreation Area – Anasazi Ruins & Dinosaur Tracks
•Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, NV
•Rhyolite Ghost Town, NV
•Rock Corral Recreation Area, UT
•Santa Fe Saloon, Goldfield, NV
•San Rafael Swell, UT
•Scenic Byway 12, UT
•St. Thomas Ghost Town, NV
•Saguaro National Park, AZ
•The Great Salt Lake, UT
•Sand Hollow State Park, UT
•Sedona, AZ
•Shauntie Ghost Town, UT
•Silver Reef Mine & Ghost Town, UT
•Slickhorn Canyon Ruins, UT
•Snow Canyon State Park, UT
•Snow Canyon – Lava Tubes, UT
•South Camp Mining Ruins, UT
•Strawberry Point, UT
•Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
•Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, AZ
•Teakettle Junction, CA
•Techatticup Ghost Town, NV
•The Moon , UT
•The Wave – North Coyote Buttes, UT
•Three Peaks Recreation Area, UT
•Tombstone, AZ
•Tuba City Dinosaur Hunting Grounds, AZ
•Tushar Mountains, UT
•Tuweep and Toroweap, UT
•Tuzugoot National Monument, AZ
•Ubehebe Crater, CA
•Valley of Fire State Park – Altatl Rock Petroglyphs, NV
•Valley of Fire State Park, Mouse’s Tank & Petroglyph Gallery Trail, NV
•Valley of Fire State Park Elephant Rock & Poodle Rock, Nevada
•Valley of Fire -The Cabins/ Anasazi Petroglyph’s, NV
•Valley of Fire State Park -White Domes Trail, NV
•The Virgin River
•The Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area, AZ

•Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, AZ
•Warner Canyon, UT
•Warner Valley Dinosaur Tracks, UT
•Washington City Dinosaur Tracksite, UT
•Westwater Anasazi Ruins. UT
•Wilson Arch, UT
•Wupatki National Monument, AZ
•Yankee Meadows, Dixie National Forest , UT
•Zion National Park, UT

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Thank You

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Comments

[Nancy Dutcher]

Great web site
I love your website... I am amazed at all the places of beauty and things past that you have been... Wish I could go to all of them. This site is beautiful and very informative.. Glad I met you..

[Hiking The Southwest]

Looking forward to a long relationship with you and your husband in Monticello