Blogs from Zion National Park, Utah, United States, North America - page 6

From Salt Lake City we headed southwest with plans to visit three Utah national parks: Capitol Reef, Bryce and Zion. They are all about rocks in different shapes, sizes and colors. Southwestern Utah has the nickname Color Country, and that is not in vain. Already before reaching the first national Park, Capitol Reef, we started seeing orange and red rocky hills coloring the scenery. Our first stop, Capitol Reef National Park, was the most peaceful of the three. We set up our camp again at the bargain price of 10 dollars a night for a tent site, then set off to see what the park had to offer. The park has several orchards where visitors can freely pick fruit to eat. Being hungry, we started by sampling peaches, apples and pears. The fruit were not really ... read more

Départ à 8h45, 30 220 miles au compteur. Arrêt juste après Boulder pour faire quelques photos. Arrêt a Escalante pour prendre de l'essence, 9,358 gallons pour 36,49$ et 30 291 miles. Nous continuons jusqu'a Bryce Canon que nous visitons grace à la navette gratuite et qui est plus beau en vrai qu'en photos. Nous allons ensuite au Zion National Park où nous utilisons également la navette gratuite pour visiter le site. A chaque fois 25$ par voiture (de 2 ou 9 personnes) et une heure et demi pour les visites. Nous arrivons finalement à Hurricane à 20h30 au Rodeway Inn. Première impression bonne, mais impossible de se connecter à Internet, donc impossible de faire le blog de la journée, et aucune aide du personnel. Nous avons parcouru 223 miles = 358,81 kms... read more

We know you all have a certain expectation of what crazy thing are we going to do next, or where we are going next, so this year Anthony plan our vacation to a WARMER destination than our last years week in the back country of Montana, where we wore all of our clothes the entire week to keep warm. After all we don't want to let you down. So we headed to Utah - Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. Bordered by Las Vegas 3 hours one way and Salt Lake City 3 hours the other way. Warmer? We awoke yesterday morning to 38 degree temps - and me without the first boggin, gloves, earmuffs or parka! However, after putting on what I did have and managing to get something to eat we found that it ... read more

Day 8 was just a travel day. Mi Hyon once again drove a couple hours while I took a 30 minute nap, that always helps me stay sharp when driving and ready for the Garmin to mess us up! For the second time this trip, our Garmin GPS sent us off course. This time it was fairly easy to tell that it was wrong, since it wanted us to drive up a dirt mountain pass. The local Deputy showed up to ask if we were lost and let me know it would be a really bad idea to drive up the mountain pass w/ an RV...I thanked him for the advice, but kind of knew that anyway. Of course there was no where to turn around and I can't back up with a car attached. So ... read more

Nach einem langen Aufenthalt in Joes Valley wollten wir wieder ein wenig was von der Landschaft hier sehen. Da Thomas seinen Mietwagen in Las Vegas zurück geben musste und wir die Nationalparks von Utah noch sehen wollten schwangen wir uns also ins Mutterschiff und cruisen die Interstate 12, ein "Scenic Byway" entlang. Durch super-einsame Landschaften, absolute Wild-West-Käffer wie Fremont oder Torrey, den Dixie National Forest und über den 3000m hohen Boulder-Pass erreichten wir das Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument. In diesem Park kann man tagelang wandern gehen oder mit seinem Allrad-Fahrzeug rumheizen. Wir machten nichts davon, sondern fuhren nur schön brav auf der einzigen größeren Straße durch. Nach endlosen Meilen fuhren wir durch die Tore des Bryce Canyon National Park, in dem zahllose Felsnadeln, sog. "Hoodoos" eine sehr markante Landschaft bilden. Piet und ich steue ... read more