BEAUTIFUL DESTINATIONS

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument begins at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and rises 3500 feet to Bryce Canyon and Escalante River Canyon — and for all the paleontology buffs out there, now might be a great time to visit the iconic Utah site. The striped layers of rock, created over the span of 260 million years, just recently revealed the remains of a plant-eating dinosaur called Akainacephalus johnsoni that lived more than 75 million years ago. (