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On The Road After Dark – ljt – Parks in Fall

by WaterGirl|  December 3, 202010:00 pm| 18 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, On The Road After Dark, Parks After Dark, Photo Blogging

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Today, after a pause for our special Election Respite series, and then our Fall Colors series,  this seemed like the perfect post to carry us into Parks After Dark.  We don’t have a lot of these, so if you have any park photos you would like to share, please send them in.  National Parks, State Parks, local parks, all are welcome!  ~WaterGirl

ljt

A few months ago, I shared photos from a whirlwind trip that my daughter and I took through 8 national parks in 8 days. Several folks asked me to share more photos from the trip, and since these were taken in November 2018, they fit for both Parks and Fall Colors.

Thank you WaterGirl and everyone who contributes to these threads. I rarely comment, but I am here for them and appreciate them every day.

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Arches National ParkNovember 1, 2018

The golden leaves were at their peak everywhere we went.

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Capitol Reef National ParkNovember 3, 2018
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Zion National ParkNovember 5, 2018

I think of all the parks we visited, fall was most on display in Zion.

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Zion National ParkNovember 5, 2018
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Zion National ParkNovember 5, 2018

I love the (almost tropical) color of the water.

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Antelope CanyonNovember 6, 2018

We spent about 45 minutes in the Canyon, and I have almost 200 photos. So hard to choose, but I tried to find a couple that are a little different. This one reminds me of the ultrasound photos I have from pregnancy days.

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Antelope CanyonNovember 6, 2018

This is looking up through the ‘roof.’ We were there in the early morning. They say the best time for photos is actually midday, when the sun is shining straight down, but I can’t imagine anything more spectacular than what we saw.

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Grand CanyonNovember 6, 2018

Sunset at the South Rim.

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Bryce CanyonNovember 4, 2018

NOTE TO WATERGIRL: I know the limit is 8, and I didn’t want to include this one as part of the post, but I had to share with someone to see if you see what I see. Even the tiny hand.

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18Comments

  1. 1.

    Wag

    December 3, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Beautiful slot photos! The deep shadow and contrast in the first photo is amazing. The area around Page is really cool. Thanks for sharing.

  2. 2.

    Currants

    December 3, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Thank you! LOVE these photos, all places that have been on my list for too long. One day soon….

  3. 3.

    Benw

    December 3, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Dude this shit is extraordinary. Thank you

  4. 4.

    Torrey

    December 3, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Thank you for these photos! They are incredible.
    And yes on the last one–first thing I noticed about it.

  5. 5.

    Doc Sardonic

    December 3, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    As soon as I looked at the photo I saw it.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 3, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    Just stunning, especially Zion and Antelope!

    (Yes, I also saw the image in the last photo, wee hands and all.)

  7. 7.

    Mary G

    December 3, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    These are spectacular, please send some more of the 200 you have. And yes, it’s a faithful depiction.

  8. 8.

    JanieM

    December 3, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    They’re all great, so it’s hard to choose, but I particularly love #5 — blue water with yellow and green — my favorite color combination.

    #6 and #7 are otherworldly — it’s hard to believe they’re real. And I agree with you that the morning light worked pretty darn well. :-)

    The Grand Canyon shot gives me a terrible attack of nostalgia. I spent two weeks hiking there in 1972 and a few days in 1984. Between ’72 and ’84 the permitting system got much stricter and places were much more in demand. The ’84 trip was on short notice, so we had to take what we could get. What we got was a campsite that let us sleep in the arms of Zarathustra — i.e. below Zoroaster Temple. What wonderful memories that picture evokes!

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    December 3, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    Not to worry, ljt, it’s all good.  Lovely photos, and yes, that last photo.  :: shudder ::

  10. 10.

    susanna

    December 3, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    Incredible pictures and I, too, would love to be entertained by more of your collection.

  11. 11.

    CaseyL

    December 3, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    He was warned not to look back as he left the White House…

    ljt, your photos are amazing.  I have GOT to get to Antelope Canyon; every picture I’ve ever seen is a stunner.

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    eclare

    December 3, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    That last photo, wow.  What a wonderful trip and gorgeous photos!

  13. 13.

    eclare

    December 3, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    @CaseyL: Hehehe….

  14. 14.

    Madeleine

    December 3, 2020 at 11:33 pm

    These are uplifting, and I’d be happy to see more.

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    Dan B

    December 4, 2020 at 12:06 am

    I’ve been to many parks in Utah, and the North Rim of Grand Canyon.  That and Zion were favorites.  At Zion I decided to explore a little road on the west side that went up into the top of the bluffs.  The views back into the heart of the park were unique and there was no one else there.  I hear the Zion is overrun with visitors but there are always places to get away that are memorable or awesome.

    My story is friends of my parents came to Seattle on their way to the Canadian Rockies.  They were going to drive from Vancouver up the Frasier River canyon.  I persuaded them to take the North Cascades Highway.  They planned to return vis the Frasier.  Instead they came back through North Cascades which they declared the favorite part of their entire trip.  North Cascades is the least visited National Park in the lower 48.

    BTW your photos are wonderful!

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    There go two miscreants

    December 4, 2020 at 7:09 am

    Great pictures! The ones from Antelope especially.

    A bunch of my relatives and I were in Zion and Grand Canyon just a few weeks earlier than you! It sure seems like longer ago than two years.

  17. 17.

    Dupe1970

    December 4, 2020 at 9:22 am

    Our National Park system is so amazing. I love Bryce and Arches. Now I want to go back there.

  18. 18.

    Steve from Mendocino

    December 4, 2020 at 11:21 am

    Nice set of photos, Thanks.

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