Small Roadtrip in Utah this week-end. The goal was to visit two national parks, Zion and Bryce Canyon.
This was my first time in Utah. God it is beautiful. southern Utah, the part located on the Colorado plateau is really another world.

Le Colorado plateau (green on the map), is a big one (130000 square miles, 330000km²). It consists of southern Utah, Northern Arizona, South-western Colorado and north-western New Mexico.

The number of national parks in this area is impressive: Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Mesa Verde, Zion and Bryce Canyon, not to mention all the other ones that are not National parks like the Monument valley (a Navajo tribal park) or Canyon de chilly, Glen Canyon, natural bridges, etc...