I’ve always loved the Bears Ears. When I first discovered the canyon country, back in the 70s, I was driving north from the Grand Canyon on old US 160. As I passed though Monument Valley, near the Utah/Arizona border,…
CHARLIE STEEN’S youngest son ‘sets the record straight’ about the Life & Times of Moab’s Most Famous Prospector At the beginning of my first article in The Zephyr about my father, Charlie Steen, and his discovery of the Mi Vida…
THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the place anymore. Some…
“The government is not in the business of taking care of the people or the land, the government is in the business of taking care of the government.” I read this comment on The Friends of Canyon Country Zephyr page…
I appreciate the names of certain places. There are certain place names that to speak them aloud is to mimic the effort of a conjurer who would call up lost worlds or the dead. Arcadia comes to mind. Yorkshire is…
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THE COLORADO RIVER BRIDGE at Moab, Utah. Herb and his parents first passed though Moab on June 1, 1950. It was a blistering hot day, but the Ringers found the shade along the river a refreshing break from the…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles RESTORE GLEN CANYON? OR KEEP IT IN ‘LIQUID STORAGE?’ SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘How to Fight a Fire’ BEFORE & AFTER US 191 AT ARCHES NATIONAL PARK 1940s & TODAY GROUND ZERO with KARA DOHRENWEND…
By April 1st tourist season in Moab is in full swing. With Easter as early as it can get this year the season starts off with a roar during March with a series of smaller weekend events and then the…
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… 1. Cars get dirty everywhere in different ways. This is…