Beautiful place to visit with sightseeing in Utah
Written: Jul 13 '06
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Pros: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!
Cons: I had hard time to find restrooms.
The Bottom Line: It is good place to go for camping, visiting, and sightseeing.
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| knjshk's Full Review: Bryce Canyon National Park |
In the southeast part of Utah, there is a beautiful place to visit with sightseeing; its name is Bryce Canyon National Park. There are many national parks in Utah, but each national park has a highlight, and I want you to know a good point of Bryce Canyon National Park.
Before Entering the Park
Before you enter the park, there is a little town where you can get foods (restaurants and grocery store is there), and gifts for your family and friends. In the gift shops, there are many stones and ores. You can choose your favorite stones from them, and make your corrections. They sell commodities such as coasters, clocks, and so on. They also sell cowboy hats and toy weapons, which kids like. Before visiting the gift shops, there is place to ride horses. You need to check the time before you ride and then pay for it. (There are two courses, a one hour course and a one and half to two hour course.)
Across the street from the horseback riding area, there is a place where you can stay, which has several tepees that are used for sleeping in.
After you enter the park gate, you can see two tunnels that made of stone. These tunnels appear suddenly, so if you want to take picture of them, you should prepare for it.
In the Park
There is a trail that you can walk to the bottom of the canyon. A parking lot is near the starting point of the trail, so you can park your car there. By the starting point, there are fences to keep visitors out from the precipice. However, as you walk on further, there are no longer any fences, so you need to be careful. It is more dangerous to walk without fences, but I think fences will spoil the beautiful scene. The trail from start to finish has a big altitude change, so many people had backpack, drinks, wore casual clothes, and so on. It is tourist attraction, but if you want to walk the trail, you should prepare for it.
Also, if you do not want to walk the trail, you have the choice to go by horseback. At the top of the red stones, there are several people riding horses single file. Seeing this reminded me of a western movie. It was a beautiful sight, but very far away from me, so I could not take picture of it.
While you are walking the trail, you can see animals. I saw a family of chipmunks. They were not scared of people, and came close to us. However, they have a disease that is bad for humans, so we were told not to touch them even though they came to us and looked cute. I also saw several deer from the van. There were stayed beside the road. There was no space to park the car, so if you wanted to stop to take pictures, you had to be sure to watch for vehicles on the road.
At the top of the trail, there as a strong cold wind. However, if you go down to the bottom, the stone walls protect you from the wind, which is comfortable. At the very bottom area, there were many trees and flowers that made me feel relaxed. When I went there, there was a little bit of rain. It may have been because of the rain, that I could smell the trees. This is a smell which is not smelt very often in the big city, and I usually don’t realize it, so I thought it was “Cool!!”
On the trail, there was a place that I could not pass because of a landslide and big stones that blocked the road. This particular landslide happened in May 2006, and it was still blocking the road, so I could not pass it either.
Bryce Point
This is the highlight of this park. When you go to Bryce point, you can see beautiful scenery almost 360 degrees!! From this point, you can see forests, red stones, and white sand or soil. From the bottom to the sky, there are many stones standing that looked like bed of nails. If you stand just next to the fence, you can see the wide, beautiful scenery. It will feel so good!!!!
Bryce Canyon National Park is my most recent vacation place, and has become my favorite. If you have a chance to come to Utah, or Nevada, you should visit to the Bryce Canyon National Park!!
Recommended:
Yes
Best time to go: September-November
Recommended for: Familes
Review Topic: Hiking & Trails
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