I have to give huge props to Ian regarding this trip. He took researching the best Utah has to offer seriously and laid out an amazing outline for our trip. It had a great "skeleton" of top notch places to stay and he listed everything under the sun between them so according to our moods we could do as little or as much as we wanted.
Full of zest on our first day and energized from our morning and early afternoon adventures, we decided to add Kolob Canyon ~ the Northwest section of Zion ~ to our itinerary. This lesser known, marginally (in comparison) visited section of Zion is not connected by road, though there are long trails between the two.
Our hour long detour (the five mile scenic drive plus our hike) provided us with a preview for some of the sweeping panorama views of Zion.
It was truly a spectacular sight!
The green of the trees next to the red rock against that blue sky...
We thoroughly enjoyed the one mile Timber Creek Overlook Trail.
The end provided a lovely vantage point to sit and reflect upon the amazing handiwork of our creator.
And I couldn't have been better suited than to be there with my partner in life.
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| thankful to have found and married someone who believes this quote as much as me! [Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.] ~ John Lubbock |
Our first photos in Kolob Canyon were at 2:16 and we took our last driving out of that section of part at 2:57. What a fabulous way to spend 40 minutes of our day...four amazing sites and we hadn't gotten to where we would lay our heads for the night yet!
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