Top 10 Must-See Destinations on a Western Road Trip
Top 10 Must-See Destinations on a Western Road Trip
Top 10 Must-See Destinations on a Western Road Trip
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For this list, we’ll be looking at some of the most stunning, unique and picturesque natural destinations in Western America that you need to check out on your next road trip.
#10: Monument Valley
Utah and Arizona
#9: Valley of Fire State Park
Nevada
#8: Sequoia National Park
California
#7: Horseshoe Bend
Arizona
#6: Jackson Hole
Wyoming
#5: Lake Tahoe
California and Nevada
#4: Upper Antelope Canyon
Arizona
#3, #2, #1 . . .??
Don’t forget Devil’s Tower
As a professional photographer these last 35+ years, I have visited each one of these (and many, many others). If your list is in order, you are missing it badly.
1) No Yosemite on here ? Really ?
2) Monument Valley is one of the most breathtaking spots I have ever visited. It is NO WAY below Sequoia or Valley of Fire. Not even close. It would be #3 on my list.
3) You also leave off Death Valley, Bryce and Arches , but include "Lake Tahoe" ?? Huh ??
Just finished my roadtrip, great video 👍👍👍
Someone told me to check out carlsbad caverns. So we stopped. Without doing any research. We thought it would be this tiny hike to see some bats….. but it just kept going deeper and deeper. We saw the famous black hole. Honestly glad we stopped to see it. Absolutely amazing. And seeing the bats come out at night. If anyone reading this goes. If you get there early enough they have guided tours deeper into the cave. Wish id have known about it.
If you’re at horseshoe bend spare an extra hour and drive 10 minutes away to Antelope Canyon. It’s on reservation land, and requires a guided tour by a tribe member, but it was easily the best $54 I spent on my trip. Go to the upper canyon in summer, but choose the lower canyon in fall/winter/spring. You’ll get better light exposure in the canyons during those seasons and AMAZING photos.
Maybe do a list specifically for the Northwestern US? I would suggest places like Crater Lake, Columbia River Gorge, Cape Kiwanda, Olympic Ntl Park, Redwood, Craters of the Moon, Glacier, Beartooth Pass, etc.?
Pfft. This misses so much. If you have the time, there are some great loops you can do out west. Rocky Mountain in CO, 4 corners area, Utah has a ton of great parks. You can also hit death valley, Sequoia, the coast road in CA, Yosemite and Lassen as you drive up through Oregon, hit crater lake, then up into Washington to hit Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier and Olympic. There are also some really good state parks to hit along the coast out there. North Cascades is nice, but you need to get off the road and hike for a few days to really see it. Not a very good park to just drive through. Then Glacier up in Montana is one of my favorites, and then head down to Yellowstone and hit Grand Teton as you head back down to CO. There is also just some great scenery… the big open spaces of America.
You could easily take horseshoe bend off the lists. It’s considered part of the Grand Canyon I think? Plus as stated many times over, Yosemite is left off the list somehow? A side note, horseshoe bend is cool but it only worth about a 20 minute look. It’s packed with tourists, and if you don’t go to antelope canyon it’s a whole lots of nothing around
YOSEMITE!!
Sequoia but not Yosemite? WOW
Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mt. Rainier, Olympic National Park, Glacier National park all rank above these…
monument valley at number 10? the fuck
This list is laughable. They are all nice destinations, but to not have, Yosemite, Yellowstone,
Arches National Parks is ludicrous, to me at least.
How can Yosemite not be on this list?
When u live 45 min away from Zion national park 😂
No Yellowstone, Yosemite, or Glacier National Park? Is this your version of the “B” list for parks? MUST BE!
Grand Canyon sucks. Yellowstone is #1 spot in all of America. Yosemite is up there too. I fart in the general direction of this list.
How about "Kodachrome Canyon" just outside of Amarillo, Tejas? A micro-Grand Canyon just off the Interstate and full of critters up-close and personal. Roadrunners, Coyotes, Bears, Raccoons, Possums, Deer and more visited my tent. Too skittish to come close are Prong-Horn Antelope you can see just about dawn out on the grassland above the canyon. I had a big owl talk to me all night.
Another one missing is Wind River Canyon in Wyoming on the state road into Yellowstone. You might not see another vehicle on the road for 150 miles or more, and it makes the leisurely four hour drive enchanting. Give yourself 6 hours to drive and stop and take pictures, it’s worth it!
The Vermillion Cliffs on BLM land probably has some of the best landscapes I’ve ever seen.
I watched this to try to get out of Arizona. Y’all just gave me a bunch of reasons to stay.
Amazing 😉
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Great video! Found some new places to add to my must see bucket list… Amazing that there are some nut jobs who believe that the Grand Canyon was carved by the fairy tale Great Flood…..
Wow, photoshop much? Horseshoe Bend is beautiful, but it isn’t neon colored. I call BS on several of the other photos too.
Please don’t play the music in the back ground when talking.
None of your picks is in Colorado??!
Well I’m gonna start packing my bags 💼
How long would it take to visit all of them in a single road trip?
First, you PSed your video too much.
Second: you missed way many places in the West: Yosemite, Olympic, Crater Lake, Arches…….
Awesome videos ! 👍
Very well put together video with an awesome list showing beautiful places to travel to!
Rocky Mountain, anyone? Yellowstone? Yosemite? There are just too many to name. I’m very glad I live in the West 😉
Where is Bryce Canyon?
Definitely skewed/biased towards the Southwest (I got no problem with that as its probably my favorite region), but others may be like "Wait, why are 4 of the 10 in Northern Arizona??)
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I love the Western us I’d love to see the Beauty and the scenery I want to see all these places all these places are gorgeous
I live in Arizona so I’ve seen most of these
After 10 seconds I heard mojo video…. I clicked away…. so much good stuff here on YT. Mojo is crap! Do your self a favor and click away…..
Heads-up:
Be careful to police in Utah. They’re hiding everywhere if they see your license plate is not Utah or they have a bad prejudice thought (a bad intention) then they just give you ticket even you’re innocent. They know you’re not going to be able to contest in court in a small town like Panguitch. They just victimize you by using their authority. I got one and I saw many polices were hiding there after I got this ticket.
This police accused me for speeding in Panguitch town. But he issued this ticket about 7/8miles miles from town on 89 freeway which is 65miles/hour. It’s about 1miles from 12- freeway. I didn’t see him following me from Panguitch but just recently at the point he issued this ticket.
If he followed me for 7miles? It’s a big question mark why he didn’t call "back up" or put siren to catch me on 89 highway? Why he tailgate me for 7/8 miles away from town to the point he issued this ticket? It’s kind of weird.
Some people said Utah highway 191-6 is also famous for this dirty practices.
Remember: Utah highway 89, Utah highway 191. Avoid staying in small towns in Utah.
I couldn’t argue to police officer at that time. But for sure I was innocent. As a 60 years old visitor I had no motives for racing 55miles/hour in town at 35miles/hour sign. As a visitor, slower is better BC I love to see the scenery.
Don’t invite people to your state if you’re not welcome to visitors and have bad intention to put visitors like me to be victimized by your state’s broken system. I should deal with this case while I visited Utah. Utah Tourism is a trap.
How to deal with this case?
That saturation on all the photos it’s soooo ugly. I have been to most of these parks, sunset, sunrise and high noon with no clouds but didn’t look like the overblown and heavily saturated pics…
Horseshoe Bend is wayyyyyyy overrated. There are 100 better things to see than Instagram Bend
Where’s Yosemite!?!?
This lists are always subjective. There is no way to objectively measure one destination vs another. My list would having included Glacier National Park, the Million Dollar Highway, scenic highway 12 from Torrey Utah to Bryce , and Bryce Canyon National Park.
Havasu falls 😍😍
No Yosemite? Wow
Missing Bryce Canyon and Arches Park…both are amazing as well
Pro tip: DO NOT go to Horseshoe Bend at sunset. Instagram crowds and tourists have caused such havoc with their careless behavior. We saw people perching their children and dogs on cliffs to get the perfect shot, bus loads of seniors with shopping bags tied around their shoes stumble around, people laying down on the edge and dangling their feet – all within inches of an unforgiving fall down below. BUT! If you want a much more wholesome, anxiety-free experience, show up for sunrise. There’s barely any people and there’s a lot less hectic behavior out and about.
I think the narrator thought this video was aimed at children with how she was speaking!!!!
No Oregon or Washington on list makes it fake
Jackson WY is numbers 1 thru 5 imo lol