The Bright Edge: A Guide to the National Parks of the Colorado Plateau - Softcover

Trimble, Stephen

 
9780897340489: The Bright Edge: A Guide to the National Parks of the Colorado Plateau

Synopsis

The Colorado Plateau. Red rock country. The canyonlands. A vast desert parkland of almost unbelievable beauty on the bright edge of the world. The Plateau covers 130,000 square miles of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. This great stony fragment of the Southwest harbors our greatest concentration of national parks and wilderness outside Alaska. Its most famous parks—Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, and Mesa Verde—lure visitors from all over the world.

Trimble's work as a ranger, naturalist, and writer in Plateau parks culminated with The Bright Edge, his "first book with a spine." Since these parks preserve examples of nearly all the region's environments, the book also becomes a guide to the Colorado Plateau itself.

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