Zion National Park, Utah

We parked the motorhome in an RV park in Springdale, Utah, just 1/2 mile outside of the entrance to Zion National Park.


The RV park sat right at the base of a massive rock wall that is so typical of the Zion landscape. This made any time spent in the RV, pretty enjoyable.


We have visited Zion in years past, but since we have gotten so darn old, we don’t remember that much of what we have seen in the past.


We spent a day and a half in the park absorbing the beauty. There was some snow which gave the landscape even more interest. There is not a lot I can tell you about Zion that is not better communicated by just showing you pictures.


For your information, I took almost 400 pictures. I have just spent a torturous hour picking out the much smaller number I am going to show you here. So here we go.



This big horn sheep was already most of the way across the road when we came along and he refused to turn around and pose for me. Sorry about the end that is facing into the camera…



Melting snow resulted in frozen waterfalls here.

This is called “The Checkerboard.” It has both vertical and horizontal lines, giving it a checkerboard look.





More waterfalls here.







Some of the waterfalls come from so high up that I can barely get the top and the bottom of the fall both in the same picture.



We walked a mile back to the Narrows…or at least to the spot where the path to the most beautiful part of the Narrows stops being on dry ground and involves walking up the river to get there.


The water is very cold this time of year and we didn’t have boots. I would have liked to see that part of the canyon, but not by wading in ice water. It is a pretty path to get to that point.

I enjoy seeing things like this cactus growing out of the side of the rock wall.

We were pleasantly surprised to see petroglyphs on a huge rock very near the road. This spot is not really marked with signs, so we missed this in the past.


Unfortunately, other people have scratched graffiti into the rock around these original carvings. The good part is that the actual petroglyphs have not been damaged…yet.











This is what sunset looks like on the rock walls of Zion. I took these from our motorhome in the RV park one evening.



That white line is a jet contrail, not a plane crashing into the mountains…so there you are. That’s my pictures for today. If you need more, I have about 275 other pictures of Zion. It’s an amazing place. Hope you enjoyed the ride through the park.


Tomorrow is a visit to Bryce Canyon National Park.