Zion National Park with many others

 Two million people visit this park every year and they must all be here right now.  There is a small town right outside the park with hotels, restaurants and rock shops, oh my.

To get into the park, you have to ride a shuttle, we bought our tickets weeks ago.

It is pretty but no more so than other places we have been or even the surrounding area and the crowds detract. On the plus side, it is very bike friendly and both days in the park, we put our bikes on the shuttle and rode the seven miles back to the car.......  90% downhill.

It has one of the world’s most famous hikes, the Narrows but it was plagued with the kind of crowds that other places in the park experience.

After two days in the park  we explored the St. George area where we went to a cool desert garden, a farmer’s market, artist community and the Snow Canyon State Park. The park protects a large lava flow and it has lava tubes just like we saw in Hawaii.  Nice day.

Today, we travel 80 miles or so to Bryce Canyon where we stay at the park campground and I fish one day.  After that, on to the Grand Canyon.

Not sure about internet but we will be in touch. I know these posts have spacing issues, it happens when I have to compress the photo files to deal with the spotty internet, sorry.

Susan and Larry