Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 30 - Saturday, March 31, 2007

 Flagstaff, AZ to Zion National Park, UT — 248 Miles

Today we left Arizona and headed for the Utah border.  Our destination today is Zion National Park in Utah.  We traveled North out of Flagstaff   

toward Page, AZ.  As we got close to Utah we had to cross over the Glen Canyon Dam.

The construction on the dam began in October of 1956.  By 1959, the Glen Canyon Bridge was completed permitting the trucks to deliver equipment and materials for the dam and the new town of PAGE, ARIZONA.  The crest of the dam is 638 feet above the Colorado River.  We stopped at the beginning of the bridge to take this photo and several others.  After crossing the bridge and rounding a few curves we came to the Utah border where Sylvia snapped this shot as we passed the welcome sign.

Wow what a journey.  The park was built in 1930 – the roads are narrow and in order for the RV to pass through the tunnels they had to close the traffice on the other side which allowed Richard to travel through the middle of the tunnel. I followed with the car – I had to take deep breaths as the tunnel was close to a mile long and so my clostophobia would not get the better of me. I kept saying to myself ..your ok, breath, your ok…. 

The park is breathtaking – Green canyons, red cliffs, and deep blue skies.  The scenery sort of stops you in your tracts. The rocks according to the guide were formed in an environment as varied as sand dunes and shallow sea bottoms.  The sand dunes were the tallest in the world millions of years ago and today these sand dunes are now the majestic cliffs and canyons of sand stone.  Here are a photo taken from our campsite in the park… What a place to behold!

posted by Richard @ 7:56 PM