Hundreds of thousands of Utah travelers zoom past the Parowan Gap in Iron County on their way to St. George, Zion National Park, Las Vegas or Southern California. Many even look to the west off ...

While Stonehenge, in the U.K., famously frames the setting sun on the winter solstice — the year's shortest, darkest day — there are scores of lesser-known monuments that are celestially aligned.

Millions of years ago, a river cut a 600-foot notch into the Red Hills of Iron County. That cut, now known as the Parowan Gap, is believed to have the most concentrated collections of petroglyphs in ...

Before there was an Interstate 15, before there was an Old Highway 91, and long before there were truck stops and information centers for tourists, there was the Parowan Gap. “The Parowan Gap is like ...

The 2nd annual Ride the Gap bike challenge was held in Parowan on Saturday with an estimated 200 riders peddling the course. The event is a joint effort by Parowan City and organizer SpinGeeks and ...

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SALT LAKE CITY ” The Bureau of Land Management has backed off offering oil and gas drilling leases at Parowan Gap, one of Utah’s most notable petroglyph sites. BLM officials had included the region, ...

Set in a beautiful valley at the base of the high, forested Markagunt Plateau, Parowan, Utah, provides access to year-round recreation and scenic splendor just three hours' drive from Las Vegas. The ...

Richard Friedland "Some people call the White Shaman mural the oldest illuminated manuscript of the new world," explains Bryan Bayles, whose passion is rock art. Bayles, the curator of anthropology ...

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