Zion National Park

We arrived in Utah Saturday evening. The RV park that we chose is within 13 miles of Zion National Park. We stayed at Zion River Resort RV Park & Campground. This RV campground was very nice and highly recommend it for anyone visiting this area.

We drove into Springdale for dinner and ate at Oscar’s. The food was great and the atmosphere was phenomenal. We ate outside on the patio with a view of the Zion. The white wine margarita wasn’t bad either.

We got an early start on Sunday morning and headed straight for the Narrows Bottom-Up hike. Jeff and I thought how striking the difference was with this trail from what we had done only a few days before. Just a few days earlier, we were hiking in the snow in the Tetons. And, now we were hiking in the Virgin River through canyons in 90 degree weather.
In the Narrows, you navigate in and along a river, crossing from shore to shore through water mid-calf to mid-thigh deep. The river is the trail. The river was a bit cool at first but after a while we got used to the temperature. And, when returning back to the trail, the temperature felt great as the heat really increased by that time. Unfortunately, the hike back was also more congested with a lot more people so there was the additional hassle of going around people while trying to navigate our way through the river.
After the hike, we decided to have lunch at the Zion Park Lodge. After that we attempted the hike to Angel’s Landing. We began the Angel’s Landing 5-mile hike around 2 pm and the heat was at it’s peak. I could not tolerate the heat combined with the extremely tough all uphill hike so we stopped prior to making it half way up and we returned back to the camper. I felt pretty dehydrated even though I drank a lot of water on the way up and back down. After a shower and a nap, we went out for dinner in Springdale.

We wanted to go to Bryce Canyon on Monday but decided instead to stay at Zion since we had not seen everything we wanted the day before. We drove through the east side of the park through the tunnel. We also hiked the Emerald Pools loop after lunch at Oscar’s.
After the hike, we headed back to the camper and I made an appointment for a massage at the RV resort where we were staying. We grilled our dinner at the RV and relaxed for the evening as we planned to begin our journey back home on Tuesday morning.

The trip has been wonderful. My only complaint is that there isn’t more time to do all that we wanted to do. There is so much to see in this beautiful country and simply not enough time to do it all. I hope to bring our daughters out here in a few years when they are a bit older and could appreciate everything a little more than they could now.