Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (Hoo-doo you love) 🤣

Bryce Canyon National Park is in southwest Utah! Yup another time change! 🤦🏻‍♀️⏰ Stopped off at the visitor center and the aroma of pine trees reminded me of Christmas! 🌲 We are miles & miles from any town, store or anything and as we drove up to Ruby’s Inn RV Park & campground it looks like a Disney World park entrance! 🤣 Next to the lobby are the only 2 places to eat… Cowboy’s Buffet and Steak Room that has packaged meals to pick up or Canyon Diner where we did have lunch one day! (It had fountain Diet Coke 😃). There was a small gift shop, art gallery, general store but across the street a few other shops were still closed for the winter! 😱 Ruby’s Inn is named after Reuben (Ruby)C. Syrett who brought his family to area in 1816 and is still run by generations of the family! After setting up we decided to go to the furthest points in the park for we figured since it was getting late less people would be on the trails. The next few days we biked and hiked the trails and to all the scenic points of the park. Stunning areas for as far as you could see. Believe we saw the edge of the Grand Canyon too off in the distance. Visited the Lodge at Bryce Canyon. Snow even in the outdoor cafe area. The Lodge & cabins were built in the mid 1920’s. This National Historic Landmark is the only one of the Union Pacific Railroad’s original lodges still standing! Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon at all but a collection of giant natural amphitheater’s on the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed rocks. The red, orange, and white colors of the rocks are seen throughout the park. Bryce Canyon National Park is much smaller, and sits at a much higher elevation than Zion NP. The rim at Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 ft. Bryce Canyon was settled by Mormons in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who came 1874. Bryce Canyon was originally designated as a National Monument by President Harding in 1923 and was redesignated as a national park by Congress in 1928. The park covers 35,835 acres and receives substantially fewer visitors than Zion National Park (nearly 4.3 million in 2016) or Grand Canyon National Park (nearly 6 million in 2016), largely due to Bryce’s more remote location. We didn’t see as much wildlife as we thought but we did see chipmunks, Utah’s prairie dog, deer, pronghorns, and violet-green swallows. It snowed 3 inches, 2 days before we got here so there was still some snow on the ground for me to play in! Nights were 30-33* and days were 68-71*. Tomorrow we are headed to Capitol Reef National Park for 5 days of boon-docking & probably no service! We are ready…..everything’s charged and filled up for this next adventure!