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The Atlas Obscura Guide to Utah

155 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Utah


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Goblin Valley State Park

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Story

Meet the Woman Restoring Native American Peaches to the Southwest

Searching for the precious trees has become Reagan Wytsalucy's calling.

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Pando, the World’s Largest Organism, Is Being Eaten by Deer

Utah's 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones has survived for millennia, but faces threats large and small.

geology

The Wahweap Hoodoos

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Unusual Attractions in Utah

Off the Beaten Path

Nine Mile Canyon - the BLM has advised it as “an area of critical environmental concern”

Carbon County, Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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The “Wall Street” section of Zion Narrows in Zion National Park

Springdale, Utah

The Narrows

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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Lew Blank
Sunlight from the dome’s opening plays on the surface of the spring water, reflecting on the rock face inside

Midway, Utah

Homestead Crater

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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Gail Berg
Pando, the Trembling Giant

Richfield, Utah

Pando, the Trembling Giant

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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Kellen Carpenter

Bryce, Utah

Bryce Canyon

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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Moab, Utah

Hole N" the Rock

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Kane, Utah

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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The Goblin (aka The Witch)

Vernal, Utah

Fantasy Canyon

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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Hidden Wonders

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Geology (27) Nature (20) Natural Wonders (17) Rocks (14) Geological Oddities (13) Rock Formations (13)
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Utah Stories

Articles and Podcasts

Turns out the Pacific Ocean and Utah desert have a lot in common.

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How Cold War Spying From Space Connected the Galaxy to Utah

NASA and the private space sector are now turning to technology used for a top-secret 1960s mission.

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Danny Robb
February 27, 2025
  • In the American West, preventing wildfires is becoming all the more crucial. Meet one of the helpers.

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    Why NASA Is Watching Where Idaho’s Parachuting Beavers Landed

    By Danielle Hallock

  • Eggnog, technically, comes from space.

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    Asteroid Collisions, Wandering Spacecraft, and Eggnog

    By Robin George Andrews

  • Pando, called simply The Tree by those who know it best—and love it most—is a single organism that covers an area larger than 100 football fields.

    forests

    Pando As You've Never Seen It Before

    By Amiee Maxwell

  • Iridescent green figeater beetles (Cotinis mutabilis) have long been used as adornments in cultures around the world.

    archaeology

    Were These Beetles Once as Valuable as Gemstones?

    By Shoshi Parks

  • A 171-foot-tall white stain, left by the retreating waters of Lake Powell, looms over a lone human as he strides across a sandstone fin in the heart of Glen Canyon.

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    The Return of Glen Canyon

    By Craig Childs

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    Goblin Valley State Park

    By The Podcast Team

  • The quaking aspen known as Pando is one of the planet’s largest and oldest living organisms.

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    Pando, the World’s Largest Organism, Is Being Eaten by Deer

    By Richard Elton Walton

Lists

From Desert Waterfalls to Wind-Carved Hoodoos: Dive into Utah’s Wild Dreamscapes

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The Mysterious Petroglyphs and Twisted Towers Beyond Utah’s National Parks

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Itinerary

6 Sweet and Savory Snacks Concocted in Utah

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