Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah. One of the most incredible places that I've had the pleasure of watching the Milky Way make its nightly march across the sky. At elevations just shy of 11,000 feet, the Bears Ears peaks have a view of the night sky that is hampered much less by atmospheric haze than lower elevation locations. The Bears Ears area has been a place of significance for indigenous people for thousands of years and is home to countless cliff dwelling and rock art sites. Today, the monument is uniquely co-managed by 5 local tribes (the Navajo Nation, Hopi, Ute Mountain Ute, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni, all of which have ancestral ties to the region), the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.
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