Thursday, May 5, 2016

5 National Parks tour, aka Scenic overload! (day 1,2)

Bev and I take a tour of Utah's five National Parks.
The NPs are very scenic, but the roads we will ride getting to each NP are almost as jaw-dropping...more so in some cases. We didn't do any hiking in the parks...we only had 5 days to do this ride, to fully explore the parks would take weeks, if not months. So we mostly rode and snapped pics.
The five National Parks (in the order of our visit) are;
1 - Canyonlands
2 - Arches
3 - Capital Reef
4 - Bryce Canyon
5 - Zion
Anyway, here is our 5 NP tour;

We ride toward Moab.....

......but first make a stop at Canyonlands NP.....

Green River overlook.


Grandview overlook.




We exit Canyonlands NP and cross the street to Arches NP......
I'm such a rebel!!
Devils Garden.
Photo ops everywhere...


We leave Arches and ride to Moab where we will stay overnight.
The next morning we ride the excellent SR 128.....
.....to the equally excellent La Sal Loop road.
We're riding toward a snow storm...and soon enough we're riding IN snow... didn't get any pictures of the snow covered road...
After the La Sal Loop we ride the SR 211 to Newspaper Rock...
Then we take a seldom used shortcut to Monticello....and run into more rain, sleet, and snow.
We finally reach our destination for the night, the Stone Lizard Motel in Blanding. They have a very nice garden to sit in and reflect on your day.....
.......including a stone alter but we couldn't find a virgin to sacrifice...
So we just go to bed..
Day 3 and 4 in the next post.

4 comments:

Trobairitz said...

Fun!! Even with the rain and bits of snow.

Sure is some beautiful scenery over there. I always love seeing pictures of the national parks in that area since I haven't been to any of them.

Ken said...

Trobairitz - C'mon out, we'll give you the 5 parks tour! :)

SonjaM said...

Wow, the scenery never ceases to amaze me. I've been there a few times... thanks for the nice pics. It brings back memories of good road trips.

Ken said...

Thanks for reading Sonja. :)