Zion National Park again

We visited Zion National Park again, in the late afternoon and evening, and took several hundred more photos. Here are a bunch of the nice ones.

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Jenn & David

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Heading through the mile-long tunnel:

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

A couple of the tunnel windows:

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

A fun game we play when visiting parks is to look for and pick up garbage. Because people suck, and we want to leave our parks better than we found them. This is my haul from one viewpoint:

Garbage

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

We had dinner at a Thai restaurant just outside the park:

Jenn at Thai restaurant

Thai restaurant

Thai restaurant

Thai restaurant

We’ve seen a couple of restaurants that have checkboxes for tips. I wish every restaurant would do this; it’s so much more convenient:

Thai restaurant

(Bringing an ApplePay terminal to the table is even nicer. Better yet, how about paying a living wage and getting rid of tipping, but this is an improvement over having to do the math.)

Back into the park:

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Back through the tunnel:

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

The smaller tunnel:

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Jenn & David

Cactus

Cactus

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

We visited Zion National Park in Utah. A couple of times, actually. For this first visit, we drove through the park, then took shuttle buses along the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive (cars are not allowed along that road most of the year).

The road changes color as you enter the park:

The road changes color in the park

Zion sign:

Zion sign

Interesting rock patterns:

Interesting rock patterns

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

A short tunnel:

Small tunnel

Tunnel exit

Rocks

Rocks

The second tunnel is 1.1 miles long, with no lights inside, other than a few windows into the canyon:

Long tunnel

Long tunnel

Long tunnel

Long tunnel

A glimpse of the canyon out one of the windows as we pass by:

View from long tunnel window

Long tunnel

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

We stopped for lunch just outside the park:

Lunch

Then walked to the visitor center:

Walking to visitor center

Unusual to have a walk-through entrance station (in addition to the usual drive-through one):

Walking to visitor center

The visitor center:

Walking to visitor center

We don’t have to pay to enter each of the parks, thanks to our America the Beautiful annual pass, but we more than make up for that in buying postcards and other goodies at the park stores:

Park store

Park store

On the shuttle bus:

On the shuttle bus

Hey look, more rocks:

Rocks

Rocks

Shuttle buses

Rocks

River:

River

Rocks and river

Jenn & David

Rocks and river

Jenn

Rocks

Rocks and river

Posing rock squirrel:

Rock squirrel

Rocks and river

Jenn

Rocks

We took shuttle buses back down the canyon, getting off several times:

On the shuttle bus

On the shuttle bus

Rocks

Rocks

Bridge

Rocks

We opted to walk along a trail between two shuttle stops:

Trail

Rocks

Rocks

Rocks

Shuttle bus

There is a second part of Zion National Park: Kolob Canyons. We drove up there:

Kolob Canyons

Kolob Canyons

Kolob Canyons

Kolob Canyons

Kolob Canyons

Kolob Canyons

Kolob Canyons

Kolob Canyons

Jenn & David

We enjoyed our visit to Zion, and as mentioned, we went back a second time. Stay tuned for another post about that.