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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 […]

Megan’s Take Today was a travel day from Page AZ to Hurricane UT. En route, we stopped at a rock shop called Nature’s Showcase in Kanab UT for treasures. I could have spent all day looking at the various rocks and art, but I managed to get almost an hour from Phil as he wrangled […]

Phil’s Take Megan is taking the day off, so it’s just me posting today. Today was partly a travel day and partly to see Horseshoe Bend and Glen Canyon Dam in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The travel from the campground in Grand Canyon took us past parts of Grand Canyon we didn’t get a […]

Megan’s Take Phil and I agreed that 1.5 days (2 nights) probably would have been enough to see the Grand Canyon National Park with young children, since there are a lot of trails we wouldn’t do with them. We have 2.5 days (3 nights) here, though, so we made the most of the morning. We […]

Megan’s Take Grand Canyon National Park is busier and more overwhelming than the other places we’ve been in terms of logistics, but of course, it’s beautiful! We started an early hike on the South Kaibab trail to Ooh Aah Point. It was 0.9 miles down, which was fairly easy with the exception of some steep […]

Megan’s Take Today started with a 17-mile scenic drive in Monument Valley at 7 am. I knew it was a must-see, but Phil had to talk me into it. I was worried about rough roads tearing up the truck or leaving us stranded. It turned out that road conditions were really not that bad along […]