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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Bill Haggerty, author of “Discovering the Colorado Plateau: A Guide to the Region’s Hidden Wonders,” thinks that “hidden” in the subtitle really means “less-visited.”
The book purposely avoids the well-traveled public land destinations on the plateau, such as Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Mesa Verde and Capitol Reef national parks. “I made a conscious effort to not write about the big ones,” Haggerty said in a phone interview from his home in Grand Junction, Colorado.
The high desert plateau encompasses 140,000 square miles in chunks of four states – northwest New Mexico, western Colorado, southern and eastern Utah, and northern Arizona. It’s brimming with wondrous treasures, hidden and famous – national parks, national monuments, wilderness areas, a national historical park, millions of acres of national forest, Bureau of Land Management lands and oth
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