Back to Nature! - Day 57

We left Vegas today and headed to Zion National Park. We have not visited Zion since a summer many years ago with David, when it was so hot that all we did was play in the river.

We stopped in St. George, Utah to do a little shopping. Despite our mostly-successful vow not to eat at a chain restaurant, we weakened and did have a meal at a Five Guys there.

Then, we went to Zion where we got the last reserved site available for the weekend at Watchman Campground. We are in D Loop, the furthest from the river and are SO lucky to have got the reservation as the South Campground, which is first-come, first-served, was filled by noon. We set up and then went into the town of Springdale which is at the entrance to the park and did a little more shopping. The town has grown a lot since we were here years ago. It is a pretty little town and we could envision it as a place that David would enjoy living. The photo below shows Watchman Mt. which is behind our tent.

From there, we took a short drive up Rt 89 through the park and took some photos. Then, we took a short bike ride along the Virgin River and then, had a campfire. We worried a bit about how low the temperatures would go.