If you’re an avid reader of The Road Lots Traveled you may remember meeting JUCY in Utah Roadtrip: Part 1. JUCY was our camper-minivan that we picked up in Las Vegas. All the fun of RVing without the clearance restrictions or the anxiousness that comes with driving a big rig. […]
National Parks
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Zion. A land devoted to God. Utopia. To be honest, I hadn’t thought much about Zion. It was the last park at the end of a whirlwind roadtrip. And now the final morning was here. Our day didn’t start as we planned. We partnered with Zion RV & Campground for this journey […]
Nothing can prepare you for a visit to Bryce Canyon National Park. Its scenery is unlike anything you can experience elsewhere on earth. Yet it is incredibly accessible as it is less than four hours from Las Vegas and 90 minutes from its park cousin, Zion National Park. Just outside of […]
Though technically managed by the Bureau of Land Management and not the National Park Service, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was on my list of places to visit in Utah. Although I’m sure all of its nearly 2 million acres are beautiful, I was there for one site in particular: Grosvenor […]
Capitol Reef National Park. That must be somewhere in Hawaii. Or maybe Guam? Or American Samoa? Or at least somewhere off the coast of California? Right? That’s what I thought too, but no. Capitol Reef National Park is in Utah. A reef in the desert. Capitol Reef gets in name […]
If you follow me on social media (@valeriedperry on everything) you probably saw that I was hanging out at Playlist Live in Orlando, Florida a couple weeks ago. While a trip to Florida typically means time with my sister and some other friends, this trip had the bonus of also […]
I knew very little about Canyonlands National Park before this trip. I only knew that it was home to what is probably Utah’s most famous arch outside of Arches National Park: Mesa Arch And I assumed it had a canyon. You know, because it was called Canyonlands. I was expecting […]
Stop #6: Arches National Park The park I was most excited to see in Utah was the one we visited first. There is something majestic and magical about natural arches. We began the day with a glimpse of Delicate Arch in the distance. I said that I wanted to hike […]
A Camper Minivan? I was intrigued when I saw it in an email from Groupon. I’d always wanted to go RVing, but didn’t want to drive a big rig around. But I’d driven a minivan before; this I could handle. Ultimately the Groupon deal dates didn’t work for me, but […]
Mention South Dakota to someone and they’ll likely respond with something about Mt. Rushmore or the Badlands. Or prairie. That’s all I knew about South Dakota. But, as you know, I discovered caves, mountains, and wildlife on my roadtrip. I had intended for the Badlands to be my final stop […]
I’d been near the Badlands before…at night…on Interstate 90. Though just a few minutes from the Interstate, the Badlands are a completely different place…especially in the daytime. Before entering Badlands National Park I made an obligatory stop at Wall Drug. If you’ve ever driven through South Dakota on Interstate 90, […]
Located just 30 miles from Jewel Cave National Monument is the completely different underground world of Wind Cave National Park. Wind Cave became the United States’ seventh National Park in 1903. It was discovered only a few decades earlier in 1881 by Jesse and Tom Bingham. The brothers were on […]