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Cyclist on a trail near Canyonlands National Park sign under a clear sky.
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Mountain biker sets new FKT speed record on White Rim Trail

Moab Sun News4 months ago4 months ago

Professional cyclist Hannah Otto claimed the women’s fastest known time (FKT) on Moab’s White Rim Trail on May 2, 2025, completing the demanding 100-mile route in 6 hours, 36 minutes, and 51 seconds. Otto’s achievement on the iconic Canyonlands trail beats the previous women’s record by nearly 15 minutes.

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Restoration projects get started at Canyonlands, Hovenweep

Ali Harford2 years ago2 years ago

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law providing $60,000

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How a government shutdown would affect Utah National Parks

Ali Harford2 years ago2 years ago

Parks in Utah will remain open, according to a statement from the Utah Office of Tourism.

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Moab History: Bates Wilson, the “Father of Canyonlands” and inventor of “Dutch-oven Diplomacy”

Moab Sun News2 years ago2 years ago

Bates Wilson started as a National Park Service employee in the early 1930s.

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How photography shaped the national parks

Ali Harford2 years ago2 years ago

Upcoming lecture will discuss how photography played a crucial role at Arches and Canyonlands

Craig Childs pictured in a winter landscape. He has three mud lines painted on his forehead and one on each cheek.
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Back of Beyond Books brings Craig Childs’ iconic book back to life

Ali Harford3 years ago2 years ago

The book follows Childs’s thoughts and observations of the 1994 winter he spent in Canyonlands National Park. It was published in 1995, but went out of print soon after. 

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Arches National Park timed entry reviews “overwhelmingly positive”

Ali Harford3 years ago2 years ago

The system is the National Park Service’s attempt to address overcrowding in the park.

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A visit with Samantha Metzer, artist for Arches, Canyonlands national parks

Ali Harford3 years ago2 years ago

Samantha Metzner’s favorite piece of art she’s created as the 2022 Community Artist in the Parks is a landscape print depicting ruins at the Hovenweep National Monument. Her art form is a first…

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Science Moab talks to Alba Rodriguez Padilla about geologic movement in Canyonlands

Moab Sun News4 years ago2 years ago

Today’s column features a discussion with geophysicist Alba Rodriguez Padilla from the University of California, Davis. Padilla studies how faults, or fractures in rock, drive the movement of the earth in Canyonlands National…

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Local photographer, Samantha Metzner, chosen for Artist in the Parks program

Ali Harford4 years ago2 years ago

Samantha Metzner is just the second photographer chosen to create original works in the Southeast Utah Group of National Parks since the start of the local Community Artist in the Parks program, which…

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