12th May - To Zion National Park

A quick walk in the morning to see more Puebloan ruins not far from the campground. Then we drove to Page – Walmart stop for supplies! Macca’s stop for internet to work out how to get to Zion.

View from the RV park.

We drove out to Zion, admiring the buffalo in a paddock as we went. We arrived about 3pm only to find all the campgrounds were full. We had driven down a crazy windy road with awesome views. We even saw some Desert Bighorn Sheep hanging out on the side of road – but called them mountain goats because much easier to say haha. About five, eyeing us up. Must’ve known we had mac cheese dinner on board and bagels. 

We went through a teeny tiny tunnel. We were a little concerned as vehicles more than 11’4”  high and a certain width (7’8”?) needed to pay an extra $15 and have an escort. That way they could block off the tunnel and the tall or wide vehicle could drive down the middle. The tunnel was built from 1927 – 1930. Obviously they didn’t have huge high tour buses or massive RVs in those days. As it was, we had to wait a few minutes for a huge bus to drive through the tunnel.

As we went along we saw awesome cliffs and towering mountains – the scenery was stunning, so different from anywhere else we’d been. We saw similar colours to Grand Canyon, but with less purple and more red and white. The mountains were a lot smoother and round on top. 

We ended up driving all the way through the part of Zion people can drive through, to Springdale. We went to the closet RV park to Zion out the other side of the National Park, second last spot at $40 a night, but with full hook-ups. Damn the flute festival which happened to be in town that weekend. We enjoyed the sunshine at the park, using the free wi-fi and cooking burgers for tea on the firestand thingy. We were able to skype our parents and my brother and managed to catch up on emails. As we were cooking dinner, we saw some people walking their cat. On a lead. Obviously it lives and travels with them in their RV. Interesting what people do… Will, can we get a cat?? Betsey won’t mind!!