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This post will be very similar to the East Coast Trip List/Summary and will have approximately the first 55 words from each post.

Here is the list:

Utah and Colorado Trip Part One - Fort Larned NHS, Larned, KS; Bent's Old Fort NHS, La Junta, CO; and Montrose, CO

Utah and Colorado Trip Part Two - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, UT

Utah and Colorado Trip Part Three - Capitol Reef National Park, Torry, UT

Utah and Colorado Trip Part Four - Colorado NM and Grand Junction, CO

Utah and Colorado Trip Part Five - Moab, UT

Part One - Fort Larned NHS, Larned, KS; Bent's Old Fort NHS, La Junta, CO; and Montrose, CO

For our next trip after the Big Bend Trip, we started out for Southeastern Utah/Western Colorado for a month. This post is focusing on our visits to Fort Larned NHS, in Larned, KS, Bent’s Old Fort NHS, in La Junta, CO, and Montrose, CO

Fort Larned NHS, Larned, KS:

At Fort Larned NHS, we got to visit for about 45 minutes before the park closed and it was wonderful. The park is one of the...

Part Two - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, UT

Our next stay after Montrose, CO was going to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, where we stayed at Escalante, UT for about a week. All said and done we did five hikes: Escalante River to Natural Bridge Trail, Lower Calf Creek Falls Trail, Willis Creek Narrows Trail, Phipps Arch Trail, and Upper Calf Creek Falls Trail...

Part Three - Capitol Reef National Park, Torry, UT

After Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, we went to Capitol Reef National Park for three days. While we were here we got to do three hikes:

1. Cassidy Arch Trail
2. Rim Overlook Trail
3. Chimney Rock Trail

Now, a little history on the name of the park: the name comes from early...

Part Four - Colorado NM and Grand Junction, CO

After Capitol Reef National Park, we went to Grand Junction, CO, where we went to Colorado National Monument four times and went on one bike ride.

Here is a list of all of the hikes/bike rides we did here:

1. Devils Kitchen Trail (Hike)
2. Horsethief Trail via Mary’s Trail (Bike Ride)
3. Monument Canyon Loop Trail via...

Part Five - Moab, UT

Our next stop after Grand Junction, was Moab, UT where we went on two hikes and two bike rides. This post will be the last post from this Utah and Colorado trip (excluding the summary, which will be similar to East Coast Trip List/Summary).

Here is a list of the hikes we did here:

• Grandstaff...