45 Utah
I don't recall my very first visit to Utah. When I was still an infant my family went to Four Corners National Monument. I'm sure that somewhere in my father's vast collection of slides there is a picture of me standing (or more likely, being held by Mom) at Four Corners.
The first trip to Utah that I can recall was when I lived in Montana. We went on a family trip there in the spring; I have very vivid memories of watching flood water rush down a street in Salt Lake City as it went toward the lake. The street was fully sandbagged and had a plywood bridge over it every few blocks. Needless to say, this was very exciting for my 5 or 6 year-old self.
Somewhere in this same time period (possibly on the same trip) my family hit both Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion National Park. Both involve massive amounts of pretty landscapes; the only real difference is that you look up at Zion and look down at Bryce. We also went to Golden Spike National Historic Site where the first transcontinental railroad was completed.
After my junior year of high school, my family went down to Moab, which we used as a base to visit Arches National Park and Monument Valley. It rained while we were in Arches. You know how if it rains in the desert all the plants sprout and bloom immediately. This is totally true, and very cool. Monument Valley, on the other hand, was insanely hot and dry. I drank something like a pitcher of pop when we got back to town.
I don't remember for sure if we went to Canyonlands National Park on the same trip, but given its close proximity to Moab it seems likely that we did. We also went to Dinosaur National Monument on the same trip. My favorite Utah story is from this trip. We stopped to camp at a small RV park, and the old woman behind the counter told us that we were welcome to come back to the main building to watch Karl and the boys. Apparently people in Utah love their basketball, or did then anyway.
My most recent trip to Utah was a visit in Salt Lake City with my friend and high school football teammate Aaron. tigerlily_blue and I stopped there on our way from Atlanta to Tacoma.
Scoreboard
Full Credit - 33: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, Utah
Partial Credit - 7: Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, Idaho
No Credit - 5: South Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, Arkansas
The first trip to Utah that I can recall was when I lived in Montana. We went on a family trip there in the spring; I have very vivid memories of watching flood water rush down a street in Salt Lake City as it went toward the lake. The street was fully sandbagged and had a plywood bridge over it every few blocks. Needless to say, this was very exciting for my 5 or 6 year-old self.
Somewhere in this same time period (possibly on the same trip) my family hit both Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion National Park. Both involve massive amounts of pretty landscapes; the only real difference is that you look up at Zion and look down at Bryce. We also went to Golden Spike National Historic Site where the first transcontinental railroad was completed.
After my junior year of high school, my family went down to Moab, which we used as a base to visit Arches National Park and Monument Valley. It rained while we were in Arches. You know how if it rains in the desert all the plants sprout and bloom immediately. This is totally true, and very cool. Monument Valley, on the other hand, was insanely hot and dry. I drank something like a pitcher of pop when we got back to town.
I don't remember for sure if we went to Canyonlands National Park on the same trip, but given its close proximity to Moab it seems likely that we did. We also went to Dinosaur National Monument on the same trip. My favorite Utah story is from this trip. We stopped to camp at a small RV park, and the old woman behind the counter told us that we were welcome to come back to the main building to watch Karl and the boys. Apparently people in Utah love their basketball, or did then anyway.
My most recent trip to Utah was a visit in Salt Lake City with my friend and high school football teammate Aaron. tigerlily_blue and I stopped there on our way from Atlanta to Tacoma.
Scoreboard
Full Credit - 33: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, Utah
Partial Credit - 7: Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, Idaho
No Credit - 5: South Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, Arkansas