Regions
The American West, organized by place — each region gathers the parks, towns, drives, and roadside stops that define one corner of the map.
Each colored area marks where a region sits — tap one to explore it.
Big Bear & the Rim of the World
Yuhaaviatam country above the Citrus Belt — the Rim of the World crest from Crestline through Lake Arrowhead to Big Bear, two dams built for oranges on the valley floor, Holcomb Valley's 1860 gold, and San Gorgonio at 11,503 feet.
Bryce Canyon Country
The high-plateau heart of Scenic Byway 12 — Bryce Canyon's hoodoos, the Grand Staircase–Escalante, and the string of towns and parks along one of America's great drives.
Cache Valley & Bear Lake
Utah's green northern corner — the dairy-and-college town of Logan, the Logan Canyon scenic byway, and the turquoise water of Bear Lake.
Capitol Reef Country
Utah's quietest red-rock park and the country around it — Capitol Reef, the Waterpocket Fold, the orchards of Fruita, and the desert towns of Highway 24.
Castle Country & the San Rafael Swell
The empty heart of east-central Utah — the San Rafael Swell, the richest dinosaur quarry on earth, the rock art of Nine Mile Canyon, and the coal town of Price.
Cedar Breaks & Brian Head
The high, cool plateau above Cedar City — Cedar Breaks' wildflower amphitheater, the ski town of Brian Head, and the ancient rock art at Parowan Gap.
Central Utah
The heartland between the Wasatch Front and the red-rock south — pioneer towns along I-15, Cove Fort, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Fish Lake, and the Manti Temple.
Cowboy Country
Nevada's northeast — the Humboldt River corridor along I-80, the buckaroo town of Elko and the Ruby Mountains, and the invisible-gold country of the Carlin Trend, all on land the Western Shoshone never ceded.
Death Valley & the Basin Ranges
The Timbisha homeland the maps call Death Valley — the lowest ground in North America, the Panamint wall above it, Trona's tufa spires, and an opera house in the middle of the Amargosa desert.
Dinosaurland & Flaming Gorge
Utah's far-northeast corner — the dinosaur fossil beds around Vernal and the red-rock canyon country of Flaming Gorge, deep in the Uinta Basin.
Eastern Sierra & Owens Valley
Payahuunadü, the land of flowing water — US-395 under the Sierra escarpment, the Alabama Hills, Manzanar's hard history, Bishop, Mono Lake's tufa towers, and the ghost town of Bodie kept in arrested decay.
Gold Country & the Northern Passes
Highway 49 through the Mother Lode — Coloma, where the Gold Rush began, the living main streets it left behind, Sacramento at the head of US-50, and the emigrant passes at Donner and Tahoe.
Greater Zion
Utah's red-rock southwest corner — Zion National Park and the canyons, ghost towns, and desert parks of Washington County around it.
Joshua Tree & the Southern Deserts
Two deserts meet at Joshua Tree — Mojave high, Colorado low — with Pioneertown's film-set main street, the accidental Salton Sea, Salvation Mountain, and the badlands and dark skies of Anza-Borrego.
Kanab & the Grand Staircase
The red-rock crossroads of southern Utah — the movie-history town of Kanab, the Coral Pink Sand Dunes, and the largest animal sanctuary in the country.
Las Vegas & the Colorado River
Nevada's far south — beyond the neon, the red sandstone of Valley of Fire and Red Rock, the wall of Hoover Dam, and the long blue reach of Lake Mead.
Los Angeles Harbor & the South Bay
Tongva sea country, where ti'ats crossed to Pimu — then the harbor Los Angeles won in Congress and built from nothing, the village it erased at Fish Harbor, and the beach towns that decided who belonged.
Moab & Canyon Country
Utah's red-rock basecamp on the Colorado River — Arches, Canyonlands, and a dense web of overlooks, river roads, and slickrock around the town of Moab.
Monument Valley & the Trail of the Ancients
Utah's remote far southeast — Monument Valley, the San Juan River canyons, and the Ancestral Puebloan country of the Trail of the Ancients.
Navajo & Hopi Country
The Colorado Plateau's tribal heart — Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly, the Hopi mesas, Lake Powell and Antelope Canyon, and the banded ground of the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest, across the homelands of the Diné and Hopi.
Nevada Silver Trails
South-central Nevada's mining country — Tonopah and Goldfield, the ghost town of Rhyolite, Cathedral Gorge's clay spires, and the long straight run of the Extraterrestrial Highway.
Park City & the Wasatch Back
Salt Lake's high-country playground — Park City's ski resorts and silver-mining history, the Mirror Lake Highway into the Uintas, and the Heber Valley.
Red Rock Country & the Central Highlands
Arizona's red-rock center — Sedona's sandstone spires and the green Verde Valley below, the copper ghost town of Jerome on Cleopatra Hill, and the pine-ringed old territorial capital at Prescott.
Reno–Tahoe & the Comstock
Nevada's western edge — Lake Tahoe's east shore, the silver boomtown of Virginia City, and the capital at Carson City, where the Sierra meets the sagebrush.
Riverside & the Citrus Belt
The Citrus Belt from Chino to Redlands — Maara'yam homeland, then the valley the Washington navel rebuilt. Eliza Tibbets's parent orange tree, Riverside's Mission Inn, and the labor the groves ran on.
Route 66 & the Colorado River
The Mother Road and the water border with California — the longest surviving stretch of Route 66 from Seligman through Kingman to Oatman, the Black Mountains switchbacks, and the Colorado River lakes from Lake Havasu down to Yuma.
Route 66 & the Mojave Heartland
Route 66 crosses the Colorado at Needles and runs its emptiest miles — Amboy, the Kelso Depot, Calico's silver hills, and Barstow's Harvey House — through the homeland of the 'Aha Makhav, the People by the River.
Route 66 West: Cajon to the Sea
The Mother Road's last miles — down Cajon Pass into Tovaangar, the Tongva world, past the Wigwam Motel and Pasadena's Colorado Boulevard to the pier at Santa Monica, where the road runs out at the Pacific.
Salt Lake & the Wasatch Front
Utah's capital and the urban corridor along the mountains — Temple Square, the Great Salt Lake, the Cottonwood ski canyons, Ogden, and the Golden Spike.
San Fernando & Santa Clarita Valleys
Tataviam and Tongva country behind the hills — Mission San Fernando at the village of Achoicominga, California's first gold and first oil well, and the Owens Valley water that arrives at the Cascades.
The Grand Canyon & the San Francisco Peaks
Arizona's high volcanic north — the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, the ponderosa city of Flagstaff, the San Francisco Peaks sacred to the Hopi and Diné, and the cinder cones and lava flows that built this country.
The Loneliest Road
US-50 across the middle of Nevada — basin and range, basin and range, from Fallon to Ely, with Great Basin National Park and its bristlecone pines at the far end.
The Mogollon Rim & the White Mountains
The great forested escarpment and the Apache high country — the long wall of the Mogollon Rim, the alpine White Mountains, the plunge of Salt River Canyon, and the Coronado Trail, on the homelands of the Western Apache.
The Sonoran South & the Borderlands
Saguaro desert, silver towns, and the border missions — Tucson under its sky-island ranges, Saguaro National Park, the Spanish missions at San Xavier and Tumacácori, and the mining towns of Tombstone and Bisbee, on Tohono O'odham land near the Mexico line.
The Valley of the Sun
The desert metropolis on the canal builders' ground — Phoenix and its cities, the Superstition Mountains and the old Apache Trail, all laid over the irrigation canals the ancestral Huhugam dug and the Akimel O'odham still farm beside.
Utah Valley
The valley between Utah Lake and Mount Timpanogos — Provo's canyons and waterfalls, Sundance, Timpanogos Cave, and the family attractions of Lehi.