We left the motorhome in the RV park near Zion and drove an hour and a half or so up to Bryce. We realized as we drove, that Bryce is at a much higher elevation than Zion judging by the amount of snow along the way and in the park.
The herd of buffalo we drove past contrasted strikingly against the snow.
It is interesting how when you reach the area of the National Park, the landscape changes suddenly as if one flipped a switch. Once again, I will mostly just show you pictures with minimal verbiage in this blog posting.
Good thing we left the motorhome behind, we don’t think it would have fit through here.
I enjoyed seeing the snow on the colored rocks. This is a view that the summer visitors don’t get to see.
This is Natural Bridge. We did not see this the last time we were here because the pull-off was jam-packed with cars and there was no place to park.
Due to traffic such as that, now during the busy season you can no longer drive yourself through either Zion or Bryce. You have to ride on shuttle buses. That does not sound like a lot of fun to me.
As I haven mentioned previously, traveling in winter as we do, we see a lot of “Closed for the Season” signs. However this was one case where the off-season was to our advantage.
Most of the viewpoints are right on the main road. This one required a walk of about a city block. The snow in places, like this one, was higher than my head.
Other place had almost no snow at all.
Well, this marks the end of the scenic part of our trip. The rest of the way will be across the deserts and flatlands of Nevada and Eastern Oregon. Then we will be home and after being gone for four months, we are looking forward to that!
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