Moab, Utah
Moab, Utah is an endless desert playground. The infamous red rock is the the backdrop for mountain biking, canyoneering, hiking, river rafting, motorcycling, and 4X4 adventuring, while serving as the gateway to southern Utah’s expansive network of National Parks, National Monuments, and National Forests. There are only about 5,100 permanent residents in Moab, but the town is a funnel for the 1.9 million people that travel to nearby Arches and Canyonlands National Parks every year and the countless other adventurers who come to the area to explore miles of slickrock, canyons, rivers, and BLM wilderness.
Recent Articles
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Finding the Lost City of the Lukachukais
Lost cities don’t exist. They are confined to the bottoms of oceans and 19th-century jungles. As children, we all eventually give up on looking for buried treasure in backyards, or undiscovered, ancient ruins down the block because at this point humanity has been around long enough to stumble over most of them. Long before I […]
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The Battle for The Bears Ears, Part V: A Personal View
This is the fifth and final installment of a series of articles examining protection of Cedar Mesa and the proposed Bears Ears National Monument. On my first day as a ranger I climbed the Bears Ears. Visible more than 100 miles away from my home in New Mexico, they stood like two beacons above the desert, […]
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The Battle for The Bears Ears, Part IV: The Trouble With Archaeology
This is the fourth installment of a series of articles examining protection of Cedar Mesa and the proposed Bears Ears National Monument. When it comes to protecting the land, archaeology is the problem from hell. Ruins deteriorate and crumble away, vulnerable to animal disturbance, erosion, and weathering. Looters and vandals can destroy sites just as […]
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The Battle for The Bears Ears, Part III: Road Wars
This is the third installment of a series of articles examining protection of Cedar Mesa and the proposed Bears Ears National Monument. On Christmas Day of 1879, George B. Hobbs gazed out over Cedar Mesa to contemplate his fate. Along with three other scouts from the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition, Hobbs found himself without food, on a […]
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The Battle for The Bears Ears, Part II: The End of Obscurity
This is the second installment of a series of articles examining protection of Cedar Mesa and the proposed Bears Ears National Monument. In his 1996 book In Search of the Old Ones, adventure writer David Roberts described stumbling across Moon House, which he called “The most striking Anasazi ruin I had ever seen”: I had […]
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The Battle for The Bears Ears, Part I: The Legislative Landscape
This is the first installment of a series of articles examining protection of Cedar Mesa and the proposed Bears Ears National Monument. On a clear day, the Bears Ears offer nothing but peace. The twin buttes stand eerily silent in the thin air, rippled only by a whispering breeze or the cries of a lazy raven […]
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Patagonia Pulls Out of Outdoor Retailer
On December 28th, Barack Obama designated the Bears Ears region in south-eastern Utah as a national monument. That move was immediately met with strong opposition from Utah politicians including the mayor of Monticello Tim Young, Utah congressmen Jason Chaffetz & Rob Bishop, Senator Orrin Hatch, and Utah Governor Gary Herbert. On Friday, Governor Herbert signed a resolution advising President Trump to overturn […]
Maps
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Bears Ears National Monument Map
Bears Ears National Monument is a new national monument in southeast Utah, named for the centrally located Bears Ears Peaks. President Obama signed the monument into law on December 28th 2016. The national monument has many wilderness study areas and consists primarily of unprotected BLM land, used heavily by everyone from hikers and backpackers to the […]
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Abajo Mountains
The Abajo Mountains are visible from much of southeast Utah. They dominate the skyline of foothill towns like Monticello to the east and Blanding to the south. These remote mountains are filled with stunning scenery, like the conifers and quaking aspens of the valleys and north slopes. For the locals, they are a popular place […]
Featured Mountains in Moab
| Mountain | Approx. Elevation |
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| Moab Slickrock Trail | 4,386 ft (1,337 m) |
| The Portal | 4,767 ft (1,453 m) |
| South Mountain | 11,798 ft (3,596 m) |
| Round Mountain | 6,132 ft (1,869 m) |
| Poison Spider Mesa | 4,692 ft (1,430 m) |
| Mount Tukuhnikivatz | 12,500 ft (3,810 m) |
| Mount Mellenthin | 12,638 ft (3,852 m) |
| La Sal Peak | 11,214 ft (3,418 m) |
| Porcupine Rim | 6,680 ft (2,036 m) |
| Morning Glory Arch | 4,314 ft (1,315 m) |
