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The Desert Southwest

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Not all of the places in this list lie within desert areas.

• Introduction

• Alamogordo, New Mexico

• Alpine, Texas

• Anasazi Heritage Centre, near Dolores, Colorado

• Anticline Canyonlands Overlook (BLM), Utah

• Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California

• Arches National Park, Utah

• Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico

• Baja California (actually in Mexico, not California)

• Bicentennial Highway - Utah State Highway 95

• Big Bend National Park, Texas

• Bishop, California

• Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado

• Blanding, Utah

• BLM Canyonlands Overlooks (Needles and Anticline Overlooks), Utah

• Borrego Springs, California

• Boulder (Hoover) Dam, Arizona and Nevada

• Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

• Butterfield Trail (very brief mention)

• California State Highway 168/Nevada State Highway 266 - photograph (39KB)

• California Trail (very brief mention)

• Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona

• Canyonlands BLM Overlooks (Needles and Anticline Overlooks), Utah

• Canyonlands National Park, Utah

• Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

• Carlsbad, New Mexico

• Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

• Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah

• Cedar City, Utah

• Charleston Peak, Nevada

• Chihuahua Trail (very brief mention)

• Chihuahuan Desert, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas

• Chisholm Trail, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas (brief mention)

• Chisum Trail, New Mexico (very brief mention)

• City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico

• Coconino Plateau, Arizona

• Colorado Desert, California

• Colorado Plateau

• Colorado River

• Colorado River Bridge, Page, Arizona (very brief mention)

• Cortez, Colorado

• Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah

• Dixie (Utah's Dixie)

• Dixie National Forest, Southwestern Utah

• Edge Of The Cedars State Park, Utah (near Blanding in southeastern Utah)

• El Camino Del Rio - the River Road - Farm Road 170 between Lajitas and Presidio, Texas (very brief mention)

• Farmington, New Mexico

• Flagstaff, Arizona

• Four Corners, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah

• Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico

• Gila Desert, Arizona and California

• Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona

• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona and Utah

• Goblin Valley State Park, Utah (northeast of Capitol Reef National Park)

• Goosenecks State Park, Utah

• Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona - General

• Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona - North Rim

• Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona - South Rim - Including the East Rim Drive/Desert View Drive and the West Rim Drive/Hermits Rest Road

• Grand Staircase, Arizona and Utah

• Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah

• Great Basin

• Great Basin Desert

• Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas

• Hell's Backbone Road, Utah

• Hoover (Boulder) Dam, Arizona and Nevada

• Hovenweep National Monument, Colorado and Utah (a series of widely separated pueblo ruins in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah)

• Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada

• Hurricane, Utah

• Interstate 15

• Island In The Sky District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

• Joshua Tree National Park, California

• Kaibab Plateau, Arizona

• Kyle Canyon, Mount Charleston Area, Nevada

• La Sal Mountains, Utah

• Lajitas, Texas

• Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona and Nevada

• Lake Powell, Arizona and Utah

• Las Vegas, Nevada - First Night Accommodation

• Lee Canyon, Mount Charleston Area, Nevada

• Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico

• Llano Estacado, New Mexico and Texas

• London Bridge, Lave Havasu City, Arizona (very brief mention)

• Lower California (actually in Mexico, not California)

• Manti - La Sal National Forest, Utah

• Marathon, Texas

• Marfa, Texas

• Maze District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

• Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

• Moab, Utah

• Mogollon Rim, Arizona (southeast of Flagstaff)

• Mojave Desert, California, Nevada and Utah

• Mojave National Preserve, California

• Moki Dugway, Utah (very brief mention)

• Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve, California

• Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona

• Monticello, Utah

• Monument Valley, Arizona and Utah

• Mormon Trail (very brief mention)

• Mount Charleston Area, Nevada

• Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah

• Navajo National Monument, Arizona (three separate sets of pueblo cliff dwelling ruins in northeastern Arizona)

• Needles Canyonlands Overlook (BLM), Utah

• Needles District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

• Nevada State Highway 266/California State Highway 168 - photograph (39KB)

• Newspaper Rock, Utah

• Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona

• Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

• Page, Arizona - Colorado River Bridge (very brief mention)

• Painted Desert, Arizona

• Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (east of Flagstaff)

• Pipe Spring National Monument, Arizona (northwestern Arizona)

• Presidio, Texas

• Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Utah (very brief mention)

• Red Canyon, Utah

• Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada - near Las Vegas

• Red Rock Crossing, Arizona

• Rio Grande/US64 Bridge, West of Taos, New Mexico (very brief mention)

• River Road - El Camino Del Rio - Farm Road 170 between Lajitas and Presidio, Texas (very brief mention)

• Roswell, New Mexico

• Route 66

• Saguaro National Park, Arizona

• Salton Sea, California

• Santa Fe Trail, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma

• Sedona, Arizona

• Slickrock Trail, Utah (very brief mention)

• Sonoran Desert, Arizona and California

• Spring Mountains, Nevada

• Springdale, Utah

• St George, Utah

• Study Butte, Texas

• Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Arizona

• Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada

• Torrey, Utah

• Utah State Highway 12

• Utah State Highway 95 - The Bicentennial Highway

• Utah State Highway 128

• Utah State Highway 279

• Utah's Dixie

• Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada - near Las Vegas

• Valley Of The Gods, Utah (near Blanding in southeastern Utah)

• Walnut Canyon National Monument, Arizona

• White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

• Wupatki National Monument, Arizona

• Zion National Park, Utah

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