Susan Johnston

In honor of America’s 250th anniversary, this year’s theme for National Public Lands Day is “Caring for our Shared America.” Held annually on the fourth Saturday of September, National Public Lands Day is the largest single day volunteer event for public lands in the United States. This year the volunteer efforts have been expanded to run from September 12 through October 10. Adopt-a-Trail Kanab volunteers celebrated volunteer, Jim Johnston’s, birthday before heading up to repair a trail on...

Offering stunning views of Kanab to the south and multicolored cliffs to the north, Kanab’s most fa­mous in-town trail has a new name and new signs. A few years ago, the Bureau of Land Management was di­rected to remove the name Squaw Trail in respect of the Paiute Culture. The new name is Kanab Trail, a fitting name as this is the most centrally located trail in the Kanab City Trails system. Stretching from town property onto BLM lands, the trail ascends steeply along switchbacks to a...