April 2024 Update

We're fine.  After a week's visit in Las Vegas we traveled up to near Hurricane, UT for a month.  We've been here a week, and we're here getting our semi-annual dental check ups plus visits to Zion and Bryce Natl Parks.  The picture above is from our RV site, and we're looking across I-15 into the Red Cliffs Recreation Area.

Kolob Canyon, Zion Natl Park

First up was an afternoon visit to Kolob Canyon (Zion) where we began to gather info for our visit to Zion.  This section of Zion is about 20 minutes north of us.

Red Cliffs Recreation Area

Next up were two hikes into the Red Cliffs Recreation Area - convenient for us as we can walk to it from the RV park. This works well for us as were working these hikes in between what seems to be almost daily dental appointments.  Afternoon dental appointment - walk Red Cliffs in the morning.  Morning dental appointment - afternoon hike into Red Cliffs. Area is great for walking, mountain biking and horseback riding. There's a campground, old movie set, archeological dig, and dinosaur tracks. The valley that Red Cliffs sits in (and I-15 follows) is a fault area where the area appears to be pulling apart. Red Cliffs is on the western side of the fault, Kolob Canyon (Zion) is in the eastern side.

Zion Canyon, Zion Natl Park

We made to the Zion Canyon area of Zion Natl Park once so far. We're here at a busy time for Zion, but while hiking Red Cliffs we met some volunteers for Zion that gave us invaluable info. We were told to arrive before 8 AM (preferably 7 AM) for max potential parking and ride the shuttle through the Zion Canyon section.  We got there last Monday right at 7 AM, and it worked like a charm. Plenty of parking and the shuttles weren't crowded. 

Zion Lodge area

While not knowing what we were doing, we hopped a shuttle thinking we'd ride it to the Riverwalk shuttle stop and walk some there. Instead we got off at the lodge, ate breakfast at the lodges' breakfast buffet, got back on the shuttle and continued to Riverwalk. That got us to the trail to the Narrows area (Narrows currently closed due to high & fast water). We walked Riverwalk and rode the shuttle back to the visitor center where we ate lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon walking around there.

Entrance to the Narrows, Zion Natl Park

Consequently, we're having a great time - as long as we're out of the dentist chair!  We still plan to visit Bryce Canyon as well as do more hikes in the Zolob & Zion Canyons of Zion Natl Park.  We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for dropping by! David