Total Miles Traveled 3469
We drove to Zion National Park. As we entered the park, we saw Checkerboard Mesa, which is a large conical rock formation that has crisscrossing lines, hence the name. To get to the visitor center, we had to drive through a 1 mile long man made tunnel, and lots of switchbacks. We had to park at the visitor center and take a bus throughout the park. Zion Canyon is narrow with huge rock formations. In many places the canyon walls are gigantic shear cliffs, some of the highest in the world. Most of the formations were named by early Mormon settlers as you can tell from the names: The Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob of course),
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The Great White Throne,
Angels Landing, and The Alter of Sacrifice. We saw cacti in bloom right next to the stream. We were told that they only bloom for 2 weeks in the spring.
We took a 3 mile hike to visit the 3 Emerald Pools. The first was at the bottom of a beautiful waterfall. We climbed high to reach the 3rd pool which lay at the base of a towering shear cliff. It sprinkled several times but kept us cool. Zion is very different from Bryce, but still amazing and hard to describe.
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