Above is this weeks free desktop. Back one more time to a truly amazing park featured many times, this is Zion National Park in southwest Utah. Zion NP was established in 1909 and features amazing, breathtaking sandstone cliffs among the highest in the world. The park is basically divided into three sections, not just by the variations in what you will see in each, but also by the need to access each section from a different route. The upper section is Kolob Canyon, a beautiful area which is very lightly developed and offers some very intriguing day hikes and access to backcountry possibilities. The central section is the Upper and Lower Kolob Plateau which is the least developed of the three and very easy to overlook as it requires a bit of searching just to find it (this section offers some great views and contains trailheads to backcountry exploration). Lastly, Zion Canyon is the main, highly developed section where the majority of visitors go when experiencing this park (and for good reason too, it's really beautiful here). Because of the volume of visitors, main portion of Zion Canyon is accessed only through a shuttle service, which I found to be both enjoyable and a pain as it did free me up from the task of driving in this section of the park, but you also need to carry everything you think you'll need. Now, this weeks picture is from the Zion Canyon section, on the Canyon Overlook trail. This was taken looking westard at about the halfway mark of this simple 1 mile round trip hike which ends at a amazing canyon view. Zion is a real treasure of America's park system, and with the layout and volume of things to experience, you'll just get a glimpse of what it has to offer unless you plan a multi-day visit here.