Scenic Attractions

Cedar Mountain Plateau

This incredible Island In The Sky has been endowed with the beautiful Dixie National Forest covering hundreds of square miles of diverse terrain with Pine, Spruce and Aspen trees, rolling hills and expansive meadows, lakes and streams, and awesome lava fields surrounded by precipitous reddish cliffs and offering a plethora of beautiful scenic destinations sites.

• Zion Overlook is one of the world's most spectacular panoramas of nature's robes of summer's greens and of fall's brilliant yellows and reds with the dramatic towers of Zion National Park as a backdrop.
• Strawberry Point, a rugged small peninsula on the edge of the plateau where hundreds of feet below you gaze out at a sea of green that laps against the towering wind-carved red cliffs and "hoodoos".
• Cascade Falls, a stream of water that gushes from the side of a mountain and plunges into the rocks and forest below to become the Virgin river.

• Navajo Lake stretches four miles westward from the remnants of its volcanic beginnings and nestles in the forested shoreline of its own long valley.
• Mammoth Cave was created by lava flow millenniums ago and left long tubes as it cooled, that now offer a unique adventure into its black cavern.
• Brian Head Lookout is accessed by a spectacular drive to over 11,000 feet where you can see "forever" over the plateau to the distant mountains and the valleys below.
• Cedar Breaks National Monument is a stunning sight of color and form on the edge of the plateau. [Read more under National Monuments]

Pinewoods Resort is encircled by some of the most spectacular National Parks and Monuments in the world. Driving from thirty-minutes to two-hours takes you to four national parks, four national monuments and a plethora of state parks, wilderness areas, historical sites and other points of interest.

Bryce Canyon
Magnificent Bryce Canyon, just an hour away, will leave you staring in utter amazement into its vast, spectacular panorama of multi-colored stone spires. Dappled in pastel shades of red, orange, cream and gold, the gigantic horseshoe shaped amphitheaters of the Canyon are the dramatic result of millions of years of erosion along the edge of the 9000 ft. high Paunsauguant Plateau.

Zion Canyon
Less than an hour's drive from Pinewoods you can find yourself winding through magnificent Zion National Park -- the oldest National Park in Utah and the most visited. Like a Yosemite made of sandstone, Zion's massive stone towers rise precipitously from the richly forested canyon floor and the sparkling Virgin River.

Grand Canyon North Rim
Superlatives truly fail when trying to describe the views from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, which lies just two hours south of Pinewoods. Created over millions of years of time by the slow, steady carving of the Colorado River and it tributaries, Grand Canyon is one of the world's renowned spectacles with its unmatched winding canyons, spectrum of colors, and unique geological panoramas. The Grand Canyon North Rim is 1200 feet higher than the South Rim, it's 10 miles across the glorious abyss and over 1 mile straight down from the rim to the meandering thin blue line of the Colorado River.

Capitol Reef
Capitol Reef presents unique reef-like sandstone cliffs capped in white domes of stone, which early explorers likened to the U.S. Capitol-thus the name of this park. This hundred-mile-long national park contains the dramatic Waterpocket Fold, which graphically depicts how the earth's surface was layered, folded and then eroded creating numerous "pockets" or basins which during the winter and spring become seasonal ponds.

National Monuments

Cedar Breaks
Cedar Breaks is only 16 miles away from Pinewoods by car and can even be reached in summer by bicycle or in winter by snowmobile or X-C skis. Originally known by local Native American tribes as the "Circle of Painted Cliffs," the fantastic, richly colored cliffs fold and twist along a canyon rim that rises to over 10, 000 feet with amber and purple tinted slopes and spires filling the 2,500 ft. deep main amphitheater.

Rainbow Bridge
The largest known natural bridge in the world, Rainbow Bridge stands 290 feet above the dry stream's bed and spans 275 feet wide. With its deep reddish rock and almost perfect arch below and above, it truly qualifies as a "red rainbow". While considered sacred by many local tribes, it is also known as one of the natural wonders of the world.

Grand Staircase-Escalante
Grand Staircase-Escalante is one of the country's largest national monuments comprising nearly 1.7 million acres of pristine mesas, red rock canyons, sandstone cliffs, natural bridges and arches. Within its borders are major paleontological and archeological sites containing fossils and petrified wood along with remnants of prehistoric dwelling and rock art. A multitude of trails offer hiking, backpacking and mountain biking throughout the monuments.

Pipe Springs
Due to its rare natural spring and expansive grasslands on the Utah-Arizona Border, Pipe Springs became an early pioneer cattle ranch that has now been restored. Along with a dramatic history of Indian skirmishes and survival on the western frontier, it also served as a way station for travelers between St. George and Kanab, Utah

Other Places to Play

The diversity of the recreational activities to be found in the area surrounding Pinewoods Resort is without parallel in the United States. Its awesome terrain includes dense forests and desolate plains, high plateaus and deep canyons, expansive lakes and raging rivers, sweet solitude and the roars of the crowds as you chose from natures full palette of colors and the pleasures of all seasons.

Brian Head
Brian Head a major downhill ski resort located in a verdant valley setting of its own on the edge of the Cedar Mountain Plateau. [30 minute drive]

Cedar City
Cedar City is the Mecca of Classical Theater with its "Tony" award winning Shakespearean Festival as well as contemporary plays throughout the summer and a yearly Renaissance Faire and Highland Games. In addition, Cedar City, has both golf courses and tennis courts available to the public.

Las Vegas
Las Vegas just three hours from Pinewoods, experience the thrill of a big city in world-famous Las Vegas. Twenty-four hour entertainment is available in comedy shows, magic and variety shows, headliners and concerts, casino resorts with various locality shows, dance clubs, and much more.

Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park
A sweeping expanse of coral-colored sand has been blown into a series of beautiful dunes surrounded by sandstone hills and a cedar and pinion pine forest where you can hike, take photos, ride dune buggies, or just lay in the silky, pink sand.

Calf Creek Falls
A short hike takes you through a verdant cliff-walled canyon dotted with Indian Petroglyphs to a lush oasis at the canyons end where turquoise water plunges downward to a misty crystal-clear pool below.

Glen Canyon National Recreational Area
Glen Canyon National Recreational Area includes the Colorado River with all its white water rafting both above and below the huge Glen Canyon Dam. Above the dam is the 180 mile long Lake Powell and below, the incomparable Grand Canyon of Arizona. [less than a two hour drive]

Lake Powell
Lake Powell is a huge man made lake in a beautiful barren land that has more shoreline than our Pacific Coast line and offers incredible sightseeing tours, unsurpassed boating, water skiing and fishing.

Other Scenic and Historical Points of Interest

Anasazi Indian Village State Park
Anasazi Indian Village State Park was believed to have been occupied from A.D. 1050 to 1200 by the Anasazi Indians. Eighty-seven rooms have been painstakingly excavated from the red soil revealing an amazing story of the lives of the Anasazi[the ancient ones], who inhabited this land prior to the Navajo and Hopi, yet who inexplicably disappeared.

Iron Mission State Park
The site of the first iron foundry west of the Mississippi, Iron Mission State Park is now a historical museum, offering a remarkable collection of horse drawn wagons, sleighs, stagecoaches and machinery from that period.

Grafton Ghost Town
An early pioneer settlement, Grafton represents one of the true ghosts towns in Southern Utah and was used in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".

Parowan Gap Petroglyphs
A dramatic display of ancient art chipped from this sandstone passage way by the Indians as they traversed this land for hundreds of years.

Petrified National Forest State Park
A short hike through a the petrified forest is amply rewarded by the awesome display of primal vegetation as you browse among the richly colored remains of trees petrified by millenniums of time.