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Two Utah State Parks: Kodachrome Basin & Escalante Petrified Forest. US Road Trip 2026: Day 9. PL/EN
Aug 7, 2026 • 7 min read
Two Utah State Parks along state highway UT-12 filled day 9 of our 2026 US road trip. Readers may have never heard of Kodachrome Basin and Escalante Petrified Forest - two Utah state parks that elsewhere in the world would have been declared national parks. Oh, by the way - we did stop at a National Park - Bryce Canyon. See how the trip spoiled us?