Utah is an absolutely incredible place. We’ve spent the last week or so discovering some of its State and National Parks. As mentioned previously, we used Dead Horse Point State Park as our base for the first few days, from there visiting Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. We then hit the road and headed towards Bryce Canyon, passing through Capitol Reef and staying overnight outside Bryce at Cannonville, so that we could get in early for a first-come-first-serve camping spot.
Our stay in Bryce went very well: after a couple of days we got up really early – packed and on the road at 6:45am, after 2 nights of camping! – to get another first-come-first-serve spot in Zion National Park, an hour and a half’s drive away. It’s monsoon season in this part of the world, so we’ve had rain in the afternoons at Dead Horse Point, had a few spots of rain in Bryce Canyon and been thoroughly drenched in Zion. But we’re still smiling, thankfully.
Here’s a quick rundown of the…