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Los Angeles to Moab (and maybe beyond)

This is another road trip launching out of Los Angeles, but taking you through a very different landscape than the beach-dotted one associated with California. If you love a good dramatic desert landscape, this one is for you. Once you’re out of California, the Mojave National Preserve will offer plenty of photo-worthy places to pull over and take out the camera. The drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is roughly five hours, and Las Vegas will be a welcome burst back into civilization after a few quiet hours in the desert. After you’ve spent as much time as you can handle in Las Vegas, it’s back on the road through more desert landscape as you make your way to Moab, but first, a stop at the Grand Canyon. When you finally land in Moab, you can either stay in the quirky small town full of boutiques and delicious food trucks, or you can camp in Arches National Park. Whether or not you sleep there, visit it, as its deep red natural structures are something else. If you have it in you to keep driving after this, you’re just a five and a half hour drive to Denver, Colorado.