Utah is my least favorite state.
Mostly it looks like this:

Sure there are parts which look like this:

Arches national park, so pretty they put it on their license plate.
And it is pretty. But in the end it is rocks. And it is hot, and miserable:

Note how the people not in the shade are dying.
They are not alone, then my car died:

IN arches national park.
I was stuck in the nearest town, Moab:

3 days to fix my car? I did the sensible thing, rented a car and spent the weekend in Colorado/New Mexico.
Rugged, natural beauty? I'll take Yellowstone, thank you.
