Here we are in South campground of Zion National Park just outside Springdale, Utah. It was another long driving day with less than spectacular scenery. We didn’t leave our boondocking (stopping overnight with no electrical connection, or in other words, no hookups, or off grid) site at the Nevada Northern Railroad Museum until just after 9 am which was just after 8 am their local time.
We took the “scenic” drive rather than just cut across the desert, but other than the mountains we were driving along, it really wasn’t much to boast about. We did go over a couple of passes low enough to be dry instead of snowy, and it was quite pretty through there.
A couple of hours out there was a picnic area ahead, so we pulled in. I wish I had thought to take a couple of pictures. One nice metal mesh table was so overgrown with weeds you couldn’t get near it. Another had one bench missing and the remaining pieces were leaning very precariously! We used our own “facility” since there were none provided, and then moved on. That might be the most “exciting” thing in our day!
About 1 pm we stopped at IHOP in Cedar City, Utah, for breakfast. That was a nice break in our drive. While in Cedar City we also fueled up and then headed south on the I15 interstate to the Kolob Canyon Visitor Center (VC).
Kolob Canyon is part of Zion National Park, and was our first parks stamping location of this trip. You always have to check the dates on the stamps, and yep, it was the 28th, so stamp, stamp in the books. Then Betty noticed it said October instead of March! Oh well. Just another memory in the making. We decided to save the scenic drive through that area for another trip, and drove on down to the main section of the park. The campgrounds fill early, but we got two nice sites next to each other thanks to a great camp host that had once worked for a local TV station in our home area. We are settled in for the night after another “eating out” event of supper at the picnic table. We will do the VC and then tour the park tomorrow, stay another night in this campground, then be off for the next part of the adventure. This is a very popular park, with many hiking opportunities. On Sunday, April 1, the shuttle buses start running, and you have to use them rather than driving your own vehicle in. We are getting in just under the wire.
I have changed the way I’m entering the blog, so haven’t figured out how to do picture captions. So the next few are scenery coming into Zion National Park. Also, if you click to enlarge them, just click the back arrow to get back to the blog.
We’ve had a good day, hope you did too.
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