Picture a dirt road carved into a cliff face that drops 1,100 feet in just three miles - welcome to Moki Dugway, one of ...

The gnats and mosquitos were out in force that mid-June evening at our campsite, as was the Indian paintbrush, the penstemon, globe mallow and other wildflowers whose names I don’t know. The long ...

CEDAR MESA, Utah — The fight over federal protections for this desert region has reached a critical stage. Republican lawmakers aim to roll out a bill soon, but President Obama could pre-empt them by ...

At Sen. Orrin Hatch’s urging, President Trump reorganizes Bears Ears and Grand Staircase into five monuments; proclamation strips out Cedar Mesa, other key sites. Where Utah once had two large ...

Muley Point • Along the broken sandstone edge of Cedar Mesa, a pair of ravens watched Friday as supporters of Bears Ears National Monument offered gratitude to the landscape, the nearby piñon and ...

Andrew Skurka is a professional backpacker and author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide. Cedar Mesa is an uninhabited 400-square-mile plateau with elevations ranging from 4,500 to 7,000 feet above ...

CEDAR MESA, Utah — It was a balmy March morning, and I was speeding down a glorious stretch of Utah highway alongside soaring red-rock cliffs and the churning Colorado River. I cruised through ...

In the 1890s, cowboy archaeologists dug caves in remote sections of Utah’s Bears Ears. They created Basketmaker and Ancestral Puebloan artifact collections that have been hidden away for over a ...

RIM OF CEDAR MESA, Utah — For centuries, humans have used the red sandstone canyons here as a way to mark their existence. First came archaic hunter-gatherers who worked in Glen Canyon Linear, a crude ...

Under the agreement, Friends of Cedar Mesa will offer a standing reward of up to $2,500 for information that leads to convictions in cases in San Juan County, Utah. “Most people are unaware of the ...

House on Fire Ruins is one of hundreds of archaeological sites Indian tribes hope to protect as part of a proposed Bears Ears National Monument. Brad Branan The Sacramento Bee CEDAR MESA, Utah Hiking ...