People, Travel, Entertainment, Environment & Real Estate in the Southwest & Rockies VOL 1 ISSUE 2 ����������� ® & ���������� Collin Raye: American Country Western Icon www.livingmagazines.bizwww.livingmagazines.biz Collin Raye: Country Western Icon Oregon: Going Coastal on Highway 101 Zion Mountain Resort Getaway Delicate Arch at Arches National Park by Mark Eddington 2 DESERT & ALPINE LIVING MAGAZINE Welcome to the Enchanting West Oregon’s palette of vivid blues and greens, We trust you’ll enjoy reading about Swanson as well as its coastal clash of surf and turf, are and his commitment to making the museum a From the Publisher especially pleasing. Its sea lions, seafood, wine, home for the finest artwork from pioneer artists and PATTI M. EDDINGTON cheese and jaw-dropping beauty make it all the contemporary painters and sculptors. As you fashion more palatable for visitors. The Oregon Coast and your travel intinerary, you will want to set this place I love my job. its roaring surf proves that being beached is not in stone. Many others I’ve met have livelihoods that are always a bummer. Succulents steaks, seafood and a full menu more labor than love. But my publishing job is no Even so, southern Utah is no place of last resort. of continental fare and fine wines and brews are chore. It gives me the opportunity to travel, enjoy It is hard to top Zion Mountain Resort, a Shangri-La available at The Switchback Grille in Springdale, the adventures and meet new and noteworthy people all my husband and I shanghaied to during a spring charming Utah town just outside the main entrance over the American West. weekend. It has all the adventure and amenities any to Zion National Park. The steak and other food at Before I was a publisher, I served stints as a family could ask or wish for: buffalo, horses, tepees, this restaurant are truly rare. Our meal there was as tourism marketer and a hotel general manager and cabins and American Indians. fine a fare as we’ve had during our travels — in the enjoyed meeting people and introducing them to The resort also has one of the world’s greatest U.S. and abroad. fabulous destinations. While an editor for Utah’s views. To the west stands Zion National Park’s Also of note in this issue: country and western Department of Natural Resources, I logged a lot majestic east entrance. On the east loom the crooner Collin Raye, a multiple Grammy Award- of time outdoors and learned about wildlife and White Cliffs of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Gazing winner who shares some insights about his geology. southwest, the eyes race across splendid vistas philosophy and career that have garnered rave Alpine and Desert Living magazine is an to the Kaibab National Forest, where the Grand reviews from fans and music-industry professionals. outgrowth of those experiences. In each issue, we Canyon’s North Rim has stood since time Not only is Raye a talented performer, but a strive to bring you the topography, cultures, resorts, immemorial. man of a conscience and compassion. For all the animals and experiences that make the West such a If that is not treat enough, we also dish out stories attention and awards he has garnered, he gives diverse and diverting place. on art and food. Springville Art Museum Director back tenfold. He is currently teaming up with Utah In this issue, however, we have really gone the Vern Swanson gives readers a peek of that Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and his wife, Mary Kaye, to extra mile. We are taking readers father West than museum’s prized and nonpareil Western paintings promote “The Power in You,” a theme song aimed we’ve ever ventured before in the magazine — to and other art. Even though the museum is nestled at encouraging young people to become more vocal the Oregon Coast, the land that captivated members in one of the Beehive State’s little historical towns, and enthusiastic about making the world a better of the Lewis and Clark expedition and has charmed it still creates a buzz with art aficionados across the place. Read on, friends, and enjoy the journey! visitors ever since. nation. 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Mark, on occasion, Geologists are caught up in the land’s rapture. Artists — Maynard gets bent about my bent of becoming fleetingly enchanted with Dixon, among others — have had brushes with it and got their everywhere we travel. But Zion Mountain Resort is different. Far strokes from capturing it on canvas. Poets are well-versed in its from a two-week golden wonder, this destination is destined to rugged beauty. And writers Zane Grey, Louis L’Amour and Tony remain dear to my heart. I will be sharing my love for it with others Hillerman have groped for the right words to regale readers about for years to come. Yes, I’m in love with the peace and the lifestyle this paradise found. it offers — a respite from the workaday world along the Wasatch The wild-buffalo herd milling about in the meadow below Front. So how about a peek at this place? Better yet, how about a our cabin added to the frontier ambience. We whiled away the week long stay? Our sojourn there was certainly memorable. morning hours watching newborn calves prancing and pirouetting A Peaceful Place: Our first afternoon at Zion Mountain, a and vying for their mothers’ attention. The scene was certainly an cottontail sat on the patio of our cabin, its ears rotating and attention grabber for bus-loads of camera-toting French, German twitching at attention, seemingly oblivious of the scenery before and British tourists, who dropped by to take snapshots of what him: lush emerald meadows framed by junipers and pinyon pines. they had previously seen only in old Hollywood Westerns. Oh, what a view! As much as Zion Mountain’s buffalo herd is an appetizer, the To the west stands Zion National Park’s majestic east entrance. resort itself is a veritable feast. It is no mere dude ranch, but a On the east loom the White Cliffs of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. 5,000-acre sanctuary surrounded on three sides by forested federal Gazing southwest, the eyes race across splendid vistas to the land. It has become a favorite hangout that tourists and locals Kaibab National Forest, where the Grand Canyon’s North Rim frequent for fun, adventure and accommodations that would be has stood since time immemorial.