(Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hikers wind through the brush along the Notch Peak trail. (The Chuckwalla Trail is one of the many hiking, biking and horse trails in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve in St. George. Photo by Nate Carlisle/The Salt Lake Tribune) (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Chuckwalla Trail meets the Halfway Wash Trail in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve in St. George. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Slickrock Trail in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park has three designated viewpoints. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) A cairn marks the Slickrock Trail in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) A kiosk marks the start of Slickrock Trail in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. Hikers are told to watch for bighorn sheep on the trail. (Lindsay Whitehurst | The Salt Lake Tribune) The view from the Carmel Canyon trail in Goblin Valley State Park. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) Deer Creek Lake, seen here on on June 10, 2012, sits at the end of a 3-mile trail on Boulder Mountain in the Dixie National Forest. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) Two elk look down on the trail to Deer Creek Lake on June 10, 2012. Antlers from a third elk are visible, too. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) An elk stands on a ridge overlooking Deer Creek Lake on Boulder Mountain on June 10, 2012. The trail is in the Dixie National Forest. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) A deer stands on the trail to Deer Creek Lake on Boulder Mountain on June 10, 2012. The 3-mile trail winds through meadows and woods filled with wildlife. (Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune) A hiker peers into a vertigo-causing gorge near the summit of Notch Peak. (Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hikers make the final push to the summit of Notch Peak. (Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune) A hiker takes in the panorama from the top of Notch Peak. (Lindsay Whitehurst | The Salt Lake Tribune) This Goblin Valley hike isn’t the traditional, follow-the-trail trek — and that’s what makes it great fun. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) Murphy Point Overlook is in the Island In the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park. It offers a view of the park and vast southeast Utah. (Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) Murphy Point Overlook is in the Island In the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park. The turn of the Green River can be seen from there.