Robert Smithson's 1,500-foot coil of black basalt curls into the pink-tinged shallows of the Great Salt Lake's remote northern shore, reached by a long gravel road past Golden Spike.
Road trips · Utah
Utah road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Utah — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
Up in little Monroe, mineral water bubbles into a row of vintage cast-iron bathtubs perched on a travertine hillside, each one stained orange by decades of soaking — reserve ahead.
A whole desert basin of squat, mushroom-shaped sandstone hoodoos that look like a goblin army frozen mid-march, out in the San Rafael badlands near Hanksville, where you can roam off-trail.
Fifteen miles south of Moab, a 5,000-square-foot, 14-room home one couple spent a dozen years dynamiting out of a solid sandstone cliff, with a kitschy guided tour and a petting zoo out back.
Tucked behind houses in a Salt Lake City neighborhood, a quiet half-acre of one man's stone dreams — a sphinx wearing Joseph Smith's face and boulders engraved with scripture — free and strange.
A free, gloriously oddball yard of metal critters and dinosaurs welded from old car parts and scrap, on Hanksville's main drag — a perfect leg-stretch between Capitol Reef and Goblin Valley.
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