Goosenecks State Park, Utah

Peer 1,000 feet down into one of the world's finest examples of an entrenched river meander, where the San Juan River doubles back on itself again and again, winding more than six miles while advancing barely a mile toward Lake Powell. Millions of years of uplift and erosion carved this dramatic gorge near Mexican Hat. Primitive rim-side camping and wide-open, International Dark Sky-certified skies make it a quiet, remote overlook.