It’s hard to go wrong in southern Utah if you’re in search of the spectacular. Drive east Utah Highway 12, for example, a 130 mile road that starts just north of Zion National Park and ends at the gate to Capitol Reef National Park. Along the way it crosses Grand Escalante Staircase National Monument and Bryce Canyon National Park. The road itself is more spectacular that places in other states that have achieved national park status.
Bryce isn’t particularly large as national parks go. In fact, you could see all the roadside stuff in an afternoon if you hurry. However, what you see from the road is only going to whet your appetite. I took this picture not far from my parked car, standing on the rim of the canyon looking down one of the trails people use to access the canyon floor by either foot or horseback. Several trails lead down into the canyon, accessed from various points along the rim. Another trail more or less follows the rim. The latter is nice for the views and for the fact that you don’t have to climb back out of the canyon.
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Helen Schleckser
THANK YOU for publishing this. We have booked our first trip there for mid-May and cannot wait to see the scapes.
clark
Thanks for the pics,We are going there some day soon.
Jon Vermilye
Ron – you might want to check the color space for your Bryce Canyon image. It appears to be ProPhoto RGB. Unless the viewer’s Web Browser understands color space (Firefox & Explorer don’t) the wonderful red colors of the canyon appear rather dull. On my Mac the image looks great in Safari, but the reds turn brown in Firefox. If you convert the image to sRGB it should work with any browser…