Road Trip - Bryce Canyon

Canyonlands National Park, Utah to Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

After Canyonlands National Park, it was a 6 hour drive to Bryce Canyon National Park. By the time we neared Bryce Canyon, it was already past 8pm and the sun was setting. We followed the direction given by Google Maps and the GPS. We found ourselves driving onto unpaved roads in the middle of the Dixie National Forest.

Wrong Route which landed us in the middle of the forest

The map above shows the route we were directed to go to Ruby's Inn where we were staying for the night. It was pitch black all around us and the dirt road was narrow. We checked our phone connection and it was a dead zone. I wondered what we were going to do if our car broke down right there. It was pretty scary thought because we were about 4km in the middle of the forest before we decided that something was wrong and turned back. It would have taken Justin at least an hour to walk with just a lousy powered torchlight to the nearest house and the rest of us left in the car waiting for him to come back :( ARGH!!! We went to the nearest motel and the guy finally gave us the right direction to Ruby's Inn as shown in the map below.

Right route which brought us to our hotel

Ruby's Inn was the only accommodation available outside Bryce Canyon National Park. They called themselves a full service resort, providing other services like a general store, gift shop, petrol station, horse rides, helicopter rides, etc. Justin was having gastric problems again. He went to the general store just after their closing time, but the staff was still around chatting happily among themselves, and asked if they had any over-the-counter medication. They told him they don't sell any medication. We went back the next morning and I found all kinds of over-the-counter medications there! We concluded that they told Justin they didn't have any simply because they had already closed their registers! MEAN MEAN MEAN!

Justin wants to stress that, "after they got me out of the way, they continued chatting... the front desk person probably knows that there is medication inside cos when I first attempted to get in the store, the front desk guy told me the store is closed... I explained that I need to get some medication, and he said to go in and check and got turned away by the staff who are so eager to chat than to help... 4 of them... happily chatting, cannot be bothered..."

Anyways, we were happy to check out and be on our way to Bryce Canyon National Park.

Route we took from Ruby's Inn and then through Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Sonya was in pretty good spirits that day. I told her that she had to get out of the car, look around and take some photos else there won't be any Dora for her. She agreed and even posed for the camera! We didn't bring Clara out as much because the weather was just too hot!

Rainbow Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Rainbow Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Rainbow Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Rainbow Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

The characteristics of the Bryce Canyon was the hoodoos (the vertical pillars of rock), which are fantastically shaped rocks created by erosion. The photos above were taken at Rainbow Point which is at the farthest vehicle accessible end of the park, where some of the hoodoos had already completely eroded away.

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Natural Bridge, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Chipmunk

Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

We bought some bread, ham and vegetables sticks and had another mini-picnic in the park.

Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

The birds were hungry too and kept circling us for crumbs.

Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point / Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point / Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point / Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Can you see people down in the canyon? There are trails that goes all around the canyon but we didn't go on any of them because of the heat. It would also be too tiring.

Inspiration Point / Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Inspiration Point / Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Highway 63, Bryce, Utah

After the Bryce Canyon National Park, we were off to Zion National Park. See the tunnel in the photo above? At the Zion National Park, we would be going through a much longer tunnel under the mountains and I have a video footage of that. Sonya said something really funny in the video so make sure you watch it :)