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...Smoky Mountains contrasts schoolkids collecting pennies for the effort with logging companies bankrolling ads and "frantically cutting the old-growth forests ... to extract everything they could before the land was closed to them." Speaking to critics this summer, Burns said, "If there were no national parks, [the Grand Canyon] would be a gated community...
...Founded in the early 1980s, Best Friends sits on several thousand acres roughly halfway between the better-known destinations of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon - although it has become fairly well known itself, since it became the subject of the National Geographic Channel series Dogtown, and since it took in fighting dogs owned by professional football player Michael Vick, who was sentenced in 2007 to 23 months in jail for his role in a dogfighting ring. Visitors can take dogs - and potbellied pigs! - for walks, feed horses or tend to rabbits. You can stop...
...fact-finding missions or trade delegations. This year several lawmakers will spend their time stumping for (or against) President Obama's health-care plan. Once that's all done, though, many take actual vacations: Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva plans to spend four days in a cabin near the Grand Canyon. There he will "read a book that is pointless and have no phone service," he says. "Perfect...
...over the same ground, seeing some of the same natural wonders, but traveling rapidly above it all, not so worried about insurgent tribes here as much as in Afghanistan. This was, after all, a working vacation, with the President taking his wife and daughters to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, in between a couple of town-hall meetings to beat the drum for national medical reforms. (See the top 10 Health Care Reform players...
...Captain. Lake Powell, a 186-mile-long reservoir in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, spans the border of Utah and Arizona and offers fishing, beaches and dramatic views of the red rocks. The major activity here, of course, is boating. The Great Lake Powell Water Adventure gets you two nights' lodging for two (either at a hotel or an RV/campground), breakfast and full-day use of a 19-foot power boat to explore canyons and alcoves. Rates start at $515 for two nights, through October 31. If you'd prefer to leave the skippering to someone else, try the Rainbow...