Photos: Zion National Park

June 13th, 2005

The next stop after the Grand Canyon was Zion National Park. The main attraction to the park is a canyon. Unlike the Grand Canyon, most of the attractions here occur at water level, so you're constantly looking up. This makes it many times more difficult to get a good pictures, so there's just a few pictures here. However, of the places we stopped this is where I would most like to go back and spend more time. There were many hiking trails I would have liked to done given more time.






Zion's roads are traditionally red, as the first roads were made from red rocks (imagine that, given all the red rock in the area). Some of the roads are under construction, and not yet refinished with the top layer of red stuff.


A tunnel. Not *the* tunnel, but one of them. *The* tunnel is rather long, and goes thru the rock mountainside for quite a long ways. Kinda neat.


The water level was very high from all the snow runoff, thankfully from the heavy snows this past winter. This here is the "North Fork Virgin River". Typically this is shallow enough to allow falking through the river.


We saw 3 deer, managed to catch a shotpicture of one of them.


Here is a decent view of the "Zion Canyon". However, this is but a small part of the canyon.


Me, in Zion Canyon


Some flowers. Yup. Not sure what kind, but they certainly are flowers.


Zion is almos tlike 2 parks in one. The north east part of the park is barely attached to the rest of the park. Here you find the Kolob Canyons (yes, plural). We only drove through quickly for sunset.


A panoramic view of the Kolob Canyons.