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锡安国家公园的秋色，犹他州 Fall colors in Zion National Park, Utah (© pabradyphoto/Getty Images)
锡安国家公园的秋色，犹他州 Fall colors in Zion National Park, Utah (© pabradyphoto/Getty Images)
Zion National Park Turns 100
It's been exactly 100 years since President Woodrow Wilson signed an act to convert Mukuntuweap National Monument into Zion National Park. Fewer than 2,000 people visited back in 1919 due to poor road conditions and lack of trails. These days, the park has the opposite problem—with more than 4 million people coming each year, crowds create long lines for shuttles and clog popular areas such as the Narrows. Part of Zion Canyon, the Narrows can be seen from a paved path. But many people like to experience it up close, hiking in the Virgin River, and it can get crowded at peak times since it's—as the name implies—narrow.
In recent years, Zion has even moved ahead of Yellowstone and Yosemite to become the fourth-most-visited US national park (Great Smoky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, and Rocky Mountain parks are the top three respectively). Also contributing to Zion's popularity is its proximity to other attractions. It's part of the Grand Circle, a region that includes parts of five states and is the most concentrated area of national parks and monuments in the country.
拱门国家公园，犹他州莫阿布 Arches National Park, Moab, Utah (© Whit Richardson/Alamy Stock Photo)
拱门国家公园，犹他州莫阿布 Arches National Park, Moab, Utah (© Whit Richardson/Alamy Stock Photo)
Art in the high desert
The desert doubles as an art studio this week at Arches National Park, as painters from all over congregate for the Red Rock Art Festival. This Moab-based event is a celebration of what the French call painting 'en plein air,' or painting outside. Sounds like a fabulous idea to us (and what a view!). The colorful landscape here at Arches National Park is home to the highest density of natural arches in the world—upwards of 2,000—as well as more pinnacles and dramatically balanced rocks. Combine that with the fiery sunsets, pinyon trees, and splashes of sage and yucca, and we’d say these artists are in for a treat. Lucky for them, October is a pleasant time to visit the harsh, desert landscape.
鱼湖国家森林中的美洲山杨，犹他州 The Pando quaking aspen in Fishlake National Forest, Utah (© Don Paulson/Danita Delimont)
鱼湖国家森林中的美洲山杨，犹他州 The Pando quaking aspen in Fishlake National Forest, Utah (© Don Paulson/Danita Delimont)
Fall comes to the Pando
All is not as it appears to be here at the Pando, in Utah's Fish Lake National Forest. At first glance, visitors likely see a massive grove of quaking aspen trees, their leaves dancing in the wind. But the Pando is not many trees; instead, it's a single organism. Like many aspen groves, each of the 40,000 trees in the Pando are genetically identical stems that sprout from the same root system. First discovered in 1968, the Pando made waves in the scientific world. It's become recognized as one of the heaviest known organisms—weighing 6,000 metric tons—and one of the oldest known living organisms. Scientists estimate it's upwards of 80,000 years old, having endured the last ice age and countless forest fires. It got to be so old partly because most of the organism is protected underground. So, while an individual stem can die, the organism as a whole survives.
It's only recently that human activity has threatened the Pando’s health, with drought, grazing, and fire suppression interfering with its growth. Pando translates as 'I spread out,' in Latin, a reference to the way it extends itself through cloning. But its delicate, fluttering leaves—which turn golden this time of year—have lent it another moniker: the Trembling Giant.
在犹他州峡谷地国家公园中看到的银河 The Milky Way seen from Canyonlands National Park in Utah (© Cavan Images/Offset)
在犹他州峡谷地国家公园中看到的银河 The Milky Way seen from Canyonlands National Park in Utah (© Cavan Images/Offset)
Astrotourism at its finest
Stay in Canyonlands National Park until after sundown so you can appreciate one of the park's most distinct features—a night sky so free of human-generated light that it's been designated a Gold-Tier International Dark Sky park. Here's another way of understanding what that means: When you're in the city you may see up to 500 stars in a moonless night sky, but here in Utah's Canyonlands, you can see more than 15,000. Many of the stars (and planets) sparkle in the Milky Way, our galactic home in the universe. It's a big reason why astrotourists and photographers visit at night, to see the light show above. But for those who follow the sun, daytime is perfect for hiking and camping, wildlife viewing, and discovering rock drawings and peckings left behind by prehistoric peoples.
Today we celebrate 55 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson made Canyonlands a national park—the largest park in all of Utah. Maybe it's coincidence, but as a native-born son of the Lone Star State of Texas, perhaps President Johnson might have had an affinity for a place big enough to see the sprawling night sky.
帕克城，美国犹他州 Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, which begins today (© Patrick Brandenburg/Tandem Stills + Motion)
圣丹斯电影节今天在犹他州开幕，这给滑雪小镇帕克城带来了浮华与魅力。1978年首次举办时，电影节的目标是突出美国制作的电影，吸引电影制作人到犹他州来。罗伯特•雷德福长期以来一直参与这个节日，在第一次活动和之后的几年里担任主席，帮助它成为今天这样的媒体盛会。1984年，雷德福的圣丹斯学院接管了圣丹斯电影节的管理工作，因此得名“圣丹斯”。这个名字来源于他在《虎豹卡西迪与圣丹斯的孩子》(Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)中饰演角色的名字。在圣丹斯电影节41年的历史中，它或许已经成为美国独立纪录片和纪录片的首映式。我们期待着在2019年看看哪些创新的电影成为人们关注的焦点。文/时尚旅游
