TOP OF ZION NATIONAL PARK AND SLOT CANYON OF QUAIL CREEK

After leaving Moab, we spent a week near St. George UT, near Zion National Park. On the west side of the park the Kolob Terrace road leads to the upper northern part of the park and to the Kolob Resevoir. While we both had been to the popular valley part of the park visited by most tourists, neither of us had been on this road. It was well worth the day trip. We did not get to the Kolob Canyon far western part of the park, saving it for the next time!

The views of formations are much different along this road than in the canyon bottom. If this one has a name, I have no idea what it is!

More of the same.

 

 

Finally our climb in the Jeep on the sometimes steep road rewards us with getting into ponderosa country. We had lunch in a convenient pulloff near here.

This view is from Lava Point Lookout at the edge of the Colorado plateau. There were thick lava fields just below us. Here  we are looking at the light colored side canyon feeding Zion Canyon on the far left.

 

Kolob Reservoir is at the end of the road.   There were a few semi-developed RV sites on the lake, but it might be a challenge to drive our motor home up to it. The lake is at over 8000 ft. elevation!

 

ABOUT A MILE FROM OUR RV PARK NEAR HURRICANE UT A TRAIL ALONG A SLOT CANYON FORMED BY QUAIL CREEK MADE FOR A NICE MORNING WALK.

Erosion formed these almost grotesque  formations along the creek

 

Jo negotiated the obstacle in the trail in the foreground after wading across the shallow creek downstream from this pool. One can barely make her out in the shadow  near the fall where the slot part of the canyon  begins. This is the point where I decided not to go as far as did Jo.

 

Sorry about the fuzziness of this telephoto shot of the falls, Jo, and steps cut into the rock to get around the falls.

This is the summer home of Brigham Young in St. George.