I am visiting the Southern Utah area in early October and would love to learn of any good jeep or other photo tours available for the Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef or other areas.

Is the ski lift running at Brian Head? Is it photographically worth going up the lift? Additionally is the Bryce Canyon Wildlife Park worth visiting? I want photos of animals that are not obviously in fenced or caged enclosures.

I was quite disappointed in the Kenai Peninsula Wildlife Park in Alaska. It was rough to get pictures of the animals without showing fences in the foreground or background. Equally disappointing, from a photographer's point of view was the tags that many of the animals wore on their ears. Actually, the San Diego Zoo provides better photo ops than that wildlife center. I will admit however, that the reason for the Kenai Park is primarily to provide a safe refuge for injured wildlife that cannot be reintegrated back into the wild; not to provide photo ops for tourists.