When we first started thinking of these travels to some of the mid west national parks we thought that included Arches National Park along with Yellowstone and Glacier. However, when people asked us where we were going and we mentioned Arches they always said what about Zion and then Bryce Canyon. So some research followed and now we intend to visit each of the five national parks in the State of Utah. Firstly we visited Zion National Park which is in the South W...

We left Yellowstone via the South Entrance on Monday morning and just a few miles down the road is the boundary of Grand Teton National Park. It was definitely our shortest travelling day by far - less than sixty miles! Grand Teton National Park is about as far different from Yellowstone as is possible. It is not a geothermal area nor does it have great canyons. Instead there are lakes and mountains - a continuation of the Rocky Mountains. There are twelve glacie...