Across
- 2. A national park featuring a gorge of the Colorado River
- 4. A national park located in New Mexico featuring caverns known for its calcite formations and large limestone chamber
- 7. A large area of flat land with few trees
- 12. A national park in Utah featuring more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches
- 14. A national monument known as “one of the emptiest spaces in a state famous for its emptiness’
- 15. A deep, narrow valley with steep sides
- 17. A large natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level
- 18. The activity of going for long walks, especially in the country or woods
- 20. A national park featuring sands dunes composed of white gypsum crystals
- 21. An elongate depression of the earth’s surface usually between ranges, hills, or mountains
- 22. A salt encrusted flat area resulting from evaporation of a former body of water
- 23. A large flat area of land that is higher than other areas of land that surround it
- 25. A large natural stream of flowing water
- 26. A narrow valley between hills or mountains
Down
- 1. A land or climate having little or no rain
- 2. A national park located in Colorado featuring massive sand dunes
- 3. A large or small depression in the surface of the land or in the ocean floor
- 5. A national park located in Utah located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert
- 6. The activity of spending a vacation living in a camp, tent, or camping
- 8. A national park in Nevada featuring a large basin
- 9. Arid land with usually sparse vegetation
- 10. A national monument in California that partially surrounds the Mojave National Preserve
- 11. A region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes
- 13. A geological feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock
- 14. A national park in Texas featuring a large bend in the Rio Grande
- 16. A nation park named for its large deposits of petrified wood
- 17. A national park located in Colorado which name comes from Spanish for ‘green table”
- 19. A national park is known for its deadly desert valley
- 24. An isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides