Kodachrome Basin State Park - Cannonland, UT

Bryce Ampitheater

Although southern Utah is rich in beauty, it is remarkably poor in internet access.  Passing through our first little town in the morning, we saw several people trying to grapple with only one bar of service.  We pushed onward searching for the perfect combination of vista and internet.  We found our spot on the Devil’s Backbone, a scary section of Route 12 where it’s a thousand foot sheer drop off on both sides of the road without any guardrails to give you a false sense of security.

By noon we had reached Bryce Canyon.  What Capital Reef had missed in dealing with the new interest in National Parks, Bryce Canyon had figured it out.  A free shuttle bus service. 

I only fell once!

We parked in a huge lot outside the park, rode the bus to Bryce Point, hiked the Rim Trail for about three miles, caught the bus at Sunset Point and rode it back to the parking lot.  We thought we had been to Bryce Canyon before, but it turns out, we never had.  What a gem!  

Because I was unable to get a campsite in the Park, I reserved a site in Kodachrome Basin State Park.  The park is in a little basin with rock pillars sticking up.  Deb was still a few thousand steps short of her goal, so we took out our trail bikes and went for a trail ride.  We got back just in time to put away the chairs before the two minute hail storm hit (and the solar panels survived!)

Our campsite at Kodachrome