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05/12/2026

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05/08/2026

Red rock, four districts, zero guardrails.

This rugged Utah wilderness set the scene for Thelma & Louise and 127 Hours, and it’s just as dramatic in real life.

Home to ancient petroglyphs left by the Ancestral Puebloans, over 337,000 acres of canyon country split by two rivers, and some of the darkest night skies in the nation, this park is as wild as it gets. And if you’ve ever white-knuckled it down Shafer Canyon Road, you know exactly what we mean.

Can you name this national park?

04/30/2026

Artist in Residence Marko Bajzer is turning America’s wild places into orchestral music. The Croatian-American composer visits national parks not just to hike, but to listen and capture hissing fumaroles at Lassen Volcanic NP, loon calls and wolf howls at Voyageurs NP, and even the electrical biodata of ancient bristlecone pines at Great Basin NP as raw material for his series From Sea to Shining Sea.

His path to this work began with a solo cross-country road trip in 2017, where the silence, darkness, and vast open space of the parks sparked the idea to write an orchestral piece for each one.

The performances have been extraordinary. The Reno Philharmonic’s concert became the highest-grossing subscription show in the orchestra’s history. Rochester and Bloomington sold out. His ultimate vision? A body of work that outlives him, inspiring people to love and protect these landscapes for generations to come.

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