Entering Utah and Zion National Park

Nature is the art of God.   

West entrance Zion National Park

Leaving Las Vegas without any serious planning added a little uncertainly to our adventure.  Now I know many, many folks take off all the time without any idea of where they are going to end up that night or the next.  I usually like an idea and especially with a trailer and with Duchess.  Not every place will accommodate us.

We didn’t pull out until noon-ish but that was Nevada time.  By crossing over into Utah we would lose an hour but we only had about 120 miles to go. We knew where two Wal-marts were and thanks to a blog we follow, we also knew they allowed RV overnight parking.   Don’t you think that was a good start?

The terrain on Nevada I-15 was very different than what we had become accustomed to over the last few months hanging around Arizona and the flat deserts.  At times it seemed jaw dropping beautiful and especially as we dropped into St. George.  Oh my!! 

We arrived at the Wal-Mart early enough to park the motorhome and trailer and take off in the Jeep to check out  a few possible places to stay.  Most everything was pretty close together so it was an easy task.  I'm always amazed at how different a place looks online or on an advertisement than what it really looks like when you visit.  However, we did find an empty pull-thru site but discovered it was only good for the one night.  The next morning we had to change sites and the morning after that we had to change sites again.  Ugh!




It was kind of like musical chairs only it was RVs.  The manager of this park sure worked hard to accommodate us.   These people were absolutely, and I do mean absolutely, fantastic.  The problem was that there was a Tri-State ATV Jamboree in town and the place was packed with ATVs.  For us it was kind of exciting to find that out.

Once we’d moved on our second day we decided to take a little trip to Zion National Park.  We had another jaw-dropping experience in viewing the beauty of this park!  We wanted to go before the storm hit over the weekend.  The shuttle doesn’t start running until the 1st of April which meant we could drive past the lodge to the end of the lower road.  At places it was hard to find parking spots.  The place was packed with cars. 

WOW!  What else can I say about Zion just WOW, WOW, WOW.  Next we plan on viewing the upper level of the park.  This day it was only the lower level.  The road signs indicated it was the scenic route.  We'll see about that.

Sand Hollow State Park was beautiful too.  We did a drive-by to check it out.  The park was pretty empty at the time but it’s full over the weekend.

Can you imagine moving three times in three days and all in the same park? That’s what we had to do.  However, check out the size of this RV site.  Our park in Las Vegas would probably have turned this into four sites!!  You'll definitely hear more about our moves in a day or two.

We finished the day off with a meal in St. George at Cracker Barrel!!  I love their catfish!!  St. George is another very pretty town with a lot of red cliffs in the background.  We have discovered many snowbirds come to this area as the weather is normally pleasant during the winter.  However, we've also discovered that it is probably quite early in the year to plan on spending much time in other  areas of Utah unless you don't mind cooler (or is it colder?) temperatures and even a little snow.  Thus, we're not sure what our plans are but that does seem to be the norm.  What we do know is that it's colder north and warmer south.

‘Tis life on the road.