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October 30, 2002
News
Specialist Keith McCord reporting
An outdoor
magazine published by National Geographic lists the 50 most
"perfect places," and five of them are in Utah.
Utah's
beautiful scenery certainly received it's fair share of exposure
in the past couple of years, with all the media coverage before,
during and after the Olympics.
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More
Info
Adventure
Magazine
50 Perfect
Places
- Denali
Park Road, AK
- Matanuska
Glacier, AK
- Wood-Tikchik
State Park, AK
- Kenai
Fjords Nat. Park, AK
- Glacier
Bay National Park, AK
- Queen
Charlotte Islands, British Columbia
- Mount
Baker, WA
- Mount
Redoubt, WA
- Mount
Ranier National Park, WA
- Camp
Muir, WA
- Luna
Grove, CA
- Black
Rock Canyon, CA
- Candy
Rock, CA
- Muir
Tree in Yosemite Nat. Park, CA
- Skyline
to the Sea Trail, CA
- Kings
Canyon Nat. Park, CA
- Palisade
Peak, CA
- Boulder
City, NV
- Channel
Islands, CA
- Icefields
Parkway, Alberta
- Lincoln,
MT
- Livingston
Peak, MT
- Granite
Peak, MT
- Wilson,
WY
- Medicine
Bow Mountains, CO
- Longs
Peak, CO
- Gunnison
Gorge Wilderness, CO
- The
Rectory, UT
- The
Maze, UT
- Muley
Point, UT
- San
Juan River, UT
- Great
Sand Dunes Nat. Monument, CO
- Monument
Valley, AZ
- Canyon
de Chelly Nat. Monument, AZ
- Rio
Grande Valley, NM
- 10,000
ft. Above Eloy, AZ
- Organ
Pipe Cactus Nat. Monument, AZ
- Big
Bend Nat. Park, TX
- Voyageurs
Nat. Park, MN
- Superior
Hiking Trail, MN
- Pictured
Rocks National Lakeshore, MI
- St.
John River, ME
- Precipice
Trail, Acadia National Park, ME
- Stonington,
ME
- The
Chin, Mount Mansfield, VT
- Round
Valley Reservoir, NJ
- Dolly
Sods Wilderness, WV
- Chattooga
River, SC/GA
- Big
Bend of the Gulf Coast, FL
- America
(see William Least Heat-Moon's book, Blue
Highways)
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And here's
some more -- in the November issue of National Geographic's
"Adventure" Magazine.
"This
is the Rectory. It's near Moab and Canyonlands. It's a beautiful
precipice as you can see ... very, very beautiful place,"
says Kent Hansen with the Utah Travel Council.
And it's right on the cover of the magazine.
The Rectory is one of the 50 places in the country that outdoor
enthusiasts have ranked as "perfect" places to visit.
"What they did was, they went to professional writers,
photographers, these are all outdoor specialists, tour guides,
outfitters. They said 'what's your perfect place in the United
States?'" Hansen says.
The other
four spots in Utah are:
The Maze
in Canyonlands National Park. The writer who chose this location
wrote: "Just knowing that if you were to fall down in
a slot canyon, it would be months before anyone found you,
and that's scary, but part of the mystique and beauty of the
place."
A photographer
voted for the vista at Muley Point.
- A river
guide likes the characteristics of the San Juan River.
And
of course, Monument Valley makes the list.
"In fact, the writer who talked about that one is from
Belgium, and he talked about growing up watching John Wayne
movies. He was very excited to come over and actually be
there. He said it was like being in a world that he never
dreamed he ever could," Hansen says.
What makes this magazine article a bit more special is that
it came as a complete surprise to Utah tourism officials.
The five locations that were featured, however, were not
a surprise.
"I guess if there was anything that we would want to
tell people beyond what's here, if you like this, there's
a lot more where that came from," Hansen says.
The
interesting thing about this article, of the 50 places that
were chosen by all those writers and photographers, most
of the places were in the west, namely, Utah, Colorado,
Montana and California.
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