What a beautiful drive along U.S. 89 from Zion NP to Page, AZ. This is all new territory for us and we're winging it as we go along. We drove past Glen Canyon Dam and I quickly looked up the area in our National Parks book and found Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. So we parked at a Walmart nearby, unhitched the car and drove 6 miles back to the Visitors Center. Glad we did. We got our park stamp for both the bridge and the recreation area.
Page is southern Utah and the 1.2 million-acre recreation area lies in the midst of the country's most rugged canyon country. This is the Lake Powell area, the second largest man-made lake in the U.S. with a shoreline of 1,960 miles.
I'm already making plans to come back to visit this area and take the 7-hour boat tour to Rainbow Bridge National Monument to check out one of the world's largest natural bridge.
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| Rainbow Bridge - A picture of a picture |
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| Beautiful rock formations and hoodoos |
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| Glen Canyon Dam |
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Walked to the 3-mile round trip to the hanging gardens
in wind gusts of up to 58 miles per hour - intense |
That's it for today, thanks for stopping in to say hi.
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