Desert Destinations

If you love exploring painted sandstone bluffs and hiking with the sun overhead, then desert camping is for you.  These delicate ecosystems are more alive than they seem -- with a little patience, you'll discover plenty of wildlife, beauty, desert flowers, and breathtaking sunsets.

Moab, Utah
By making Moab your home base, you'll have access to Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, some of the most stunning places in the parks system.  Moab offers mountain scenery, fabulous fishing rivers, and terrific biking and hiking trails.  This town is known as the "slickrock capital" because of its incredible mountain biking areas.

Anza-Borrego Desert, California
This area offers superb hiking and biking trails, wilderness areas, and wildlife like golden eagles, deer, marmots, big horn sheep, and coyotes. You'll find colorful badlands, pinion-juniper forests, palm groves, and wildflower washes.

Page, Arizona
Set near the bright blue waters of Lake Powell and the massive Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, the Page region offers outstanding outdoor activities.  You can explore 'color country,' go boating and kayaking on the lake, and see Rainbow Bridge, the world’s largest natural bridge.