Month: June 2025

Megan’s Take Today we said goodbye to the Hurricane/Zion area and headed northeast to Bryce UT. It was difficult to make solid plans for the day, because the threat of thunderstorms loomed all afternoon on my weather app. BUT it actually cleared, and we had blue skies and sunshine most of the day. We settled […]

Megan’s Take Yesterday was a busy day in Zion. After the Watchman Trail, which Emilia did such a great job on, the kids and I turned in their Junior Ranger packet at the Zion visitor center, attended a ranger talk, went to the nature center, and walked down the Pa’rus trail and back. (I did […]

Phil’s Take Megan is sitting this one out today, so you’ll have to settle with just my commentary on today’s activities. This was an early morning again, because Zion has parking issues if you don’t get there early. The kids both needed to be woken up and Emmett especially was not happy about it. We […]

Megan’s Take We slept in until 7:30 am today, which we really needed. I could tell a difference in the kids, because they were very peppy on our morning hike at Snow Canyon State Park. We saw lava tubes, petrified dunes, cool rocks, and a small slot canyon. We did a combination of trails (Petrified […]

Megan’s Take We had Zion National Park on the agenda for today. We managed to get up and out before 7 am this morning so that we could get a parking spot at the visitor center. The alternative is to park in the town of Springdale and take a town shuttle into the park, but […]

Megan’s Take We couldn’t get ourselves going early enough to go to Zion National Park today, so we decided to stay in the St. George area. We hiked the Red Reef trail in Red Cliffs National Conservation Area. The views were beautiful, but our little hikers were whinier than usual. (I think they just wanted […]