This summer, KUER producer Benjamin Bombard is traveling around Utah looking for places that are … extra. Extreme. He recently visited the hottest place in the state. If you’ve spent any time in Utah, you probably already know where that is.

This summer, KUER producer Benjamin Bombard is traveling around Utah looking for places that are … extra. Extreme. He recently took his family on the road and went looking for the oldest thing in the state, and they found it. It’s a rock formation in northwestern Utah.

This summer, KUER producer Benjamin Bombard is traveling around Utah looking for places that are…extra. Extreme. His first mission: to find the darkest place — above ground — in the state. He just might have found it among the redrock spires of Kodachrome State Park.