Hi there everyone,
Well, we have completed our first full day here, based in Glendale Utah, and today we explored Zion National park. This is one of the many Jewels of the National park system. It cost $25 per car to enter the park, and it was a bargain! We spent from 11:00 AM to 8:30 PM exploring this valley of Sand stone. In order to get around in the busy season, your only option is the shuttle buses, which is really the only way to go as there is a narrative that plays while you are riding from stop to stop to explain what you are seeing in the area.
But the show begins even before you get to the visitor center as you pass by such icon's as Checkerboard mesa which looks just like a checkerboard. Once we got to the visitors center, we checked out the gift shop and then boarded the bus for the tour. There were so many wonderful sites to see, they are too numerous to mention, but some of our favorites were the Temple of Shinawava which is the entry point to the 'Narrows'. We hiked the one mile trail into the mouth of the Narrows, but lacked the preparedness to swim up the river to the Narrows them selves.
As we rode the bus back towards the Visitors center, we stopped at the Weeping Rock. This is an amazing location where you can see water filtering out of the sand stone above. The water pools at the top of the bluff and then filters down through the sand stone and falls out of the area above us.
Our next stop was the Zion lodge. This lodge was rebuilt some years ago after it had burned to the ground because of fire. They have done a wonderful job or restoring it to it's original grandeur.
Tune in tomorrow to see where we explore next.
Happy camping! Eric and Carol
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