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Today is our 20 year anniversary! Hope the next 20 are as good as the last 20.
We started the day by visiting the Human History Museum back inside Zion Canyon. We were lucky enough to hear a great talk given by a local ranger. His talk was on the building of the mile long tunnel that goes through a sheer cliff, connecting Zion canyon to the eastern entrance of the park. Amazing what they could do in 1930! Next, we decided to visit the other two more remote parts of Zion park.
First, we drove the steep winding road to the top of Kolob Plateau. Unlike Zion Canyon, where there are 10,000 people a day visiting, we only passed a few cars.
The view from Lava Point at the top of the Plateau was spectacular. We could see the backside of the mountains of Zion Canyon as well of a panorama of the surounding landscape. Next, we exited the park again and re-entered it in Kolob Canyon. This short drive was also very uncrowded, with beautiful vistas of pink cliff faces on the other side of the canyon. At the top we took a short hike to a viewpoint where we could see a forest fire burning in the valley. We had to get out of there quickly when a ranger came running down the trail telling us to exit the park so they could land a helicopter in the parking lot to help fight the fire.
From here we continued up north to Cedar City. We expected a quaint mountain village, but instead found a busy small town running along the side of the Highway. Instead of spending the night here, we decide to continue on toward Bryce.
On the way to Bryce we stopped for a quick glimpse of the beautiful Cedar Breaks Monument just before darkness fell.
We continued to Bryce Canyon, driving slowly because of all the deer grazing along the sides of the roads.
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