Salt Lake City to Denver natural parks trip

10 days, 15 natural parks,  2247 miles (~3616 km), between July  8th and 17th 2011)

Day 1

• Flight to Salt Lake City, Drive to Wendover

Day 2

• The Bonneville Salt Flats
• CopperMine
• Bryce canyon

Day 3

• Grand Escalante National Parl
• Willis Creek hike
• Kodacrome state park
• Petrified Forest
• Calf Creek
• Dixie Forest

Day 4

• Capitol Reef (Great Wash hike and drive to end of scenic drive)
• Drove Morton Road and Burr trail on the way to Glen Canyon and took the ferry at Bullfrog and Hall’s crossing
• Natural Bridges

Day 5

• Cannyonlands – The Needles
• Mesa Verde

Day 6

• Arches – Devil’s Garden primitive loop
• Canyonlands – The Island in the Sky

Day 7

• Black Canyon and did the Gunnison hike to the bottom … ufff

Day 8

• Whitewater Rafting in Cache La Poudre
• Rocky Mountain National Park

Day 9

• Cache La Poudre-North Park Scenic and Historic Byway
• Red Feather Lakes
• ElDorado springs state park

Day 10

• Denver

(trip planned and mapped with Microsoft Streets and Trips)