Only about 10 miles from Page, AZ and Kane County, Utah, there is a world of towering purple walls, one of the rarest yet most striking colors in nature.

The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a 112,500-acre land of red rock amphitheaters, wooded terraces, sandstone arches, and precariously hanging natural gardens. The main feature is the Vermilion Cliffs, a 3,000-foot escarpment that dominates the surrounding wilderness with its slopes featuring scattered boulders, rugged arroyos, and stark rock faces.

It is a great hiking area for those who like slot canyon hiking and enjoy solitude. For photographers, Coyote Buttes is the ultimate destination with its almost contrived scenery of nature-carved fragile rock sculptures and colorful swirling sandstone strips, domes, fins, aprons, and corridors.

Arches National Park Zion National Park Monument Valley Great Salt Lake Canyonlands National Park Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Homestead Crater Bear Lake Capitol Reef National Park Bryce Canyon National Park Mount Timpanogos Goosenecks State Park Grand Canyon North Rim Mesa Verde National Park Cedar Breaks National Monument Natural Bridges National Monument Heber City - Heber Valley Historic Railroad Dinosaur National Monument Dead Horse Point Golden Spike National Historic Site Timpanogos Cave National Monument Hovenweep National Monument Flaming Gorge Dixie National Forest Paria Canyon, Utah

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