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Mesa Verde National Park is reached by rail travelers via the Denver & 

 Rio Grande Western Railroad from Mancos or Durango stations, or via the 

 Santa Fe Railroad from Gallup, New Mexico. Stage lines connect between 

 these stations and the park. At least three days should be allowed for the 

 side trip, including the time required to travel by stage to the park. Motorists 

 will find roads leading to the park in good condition during the summer 

 months from Denver and Pueblo, Colorado, from Gallup, New Mexico, or 

 from Utah points. Accommodations in the park include tents and cabins at 

 Spruce Tree Camp near the ruins of the Spruce Tree House. Campers will 

 find excellent campsites available. 



ZION AND BRYCE NATIONAL PARKS 



Zion National Park was formed to preserve the vividly colored and 

 fantastically carved sandstone cliffs bordering the deep valley of the Mukun- 

 tuweap River, which has carved three thousand feet into the mountains north 

 of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and south of the Great Salt Lake. The 

 canyon was given the name of Zion by the Mormons who discovered it. 



This chasm is similar in size and shape to Yosemite Valley, yet it 

 resembles in its vivid coloring the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Extraor 

 dinary as are the sandstone carvings, it is the coloring that is most amazing. 

 The gorgeous red of the Vermillion Cliffs is the prevailing tint. For two- 

 thirds of their height these marvelous walls and temples are painted gorgeous 

 reds. Then, above the reds, they rise in startling white. Sometimes the white 

 is surmounted by a cap of vivid red, remains of another red stratum which 

 once overlay all. Other colors are many and brilliant. 



This gorgeously colored valley is reached by a seventy-mile motor trip 

 from Cedar City, Utah, which is on the Union Pacific Railroad. Many 

 travelers take a round trip which includes the visit to the North Rim of the 

 Grand Canyon and to Bryce Canyon, a new national park, smaller than Zion 

 but brilliantly colored and fantastically carved. Bryce and Zion are totally 

 different in every respect. Motorists find both parks easily accessible over 

 roads through southwestern Utah. At both Zion and Bryce canyons are 

 lodges, campsites, and stores offering the usual accommodations found in the 

 parks. A third beautiful canyon, more accurately described as an amphi 

 theater, lying between Bryce and Zion canyons, is Cedar Breaks, which is 

 also developed with adequate tourist accommodations. 



LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK 



In Lassen Volcanic National Park is preserved for public enjoyment the 

 only aggressive and active volcano within the borders of the United States. 

 Here may be studied the phenomena of volcanic activity which played so im 

 portant a part in the formation of this continent. Lassen Peak is the most 

 southerly of the chain of volcanoes which once dominated the Pacific North 

 west. It is located in northern California near the Nevada boundary. 



From time to time this great peak resumes its rumbling and belches forth 

 smoke and ashes and pours out rivers of lava and hot mud, sweeping down 



