Month: September 2010

Fairyland Canyon is just outside of Bryce Canyon’s park gates, so we stopped here on the way out of the park when we were headed back to the campground.  Even with the cloudy skies and rain, it was a beautiful view.  With as stunning as the views were on a stormy, cloudy day, I can only imagine how breath-taking many of these stops would have been on a clear day. As we were leaving, we looked down onto the cliffs below and spotted a single, small yellow flower growing out of the rocks.  Somehow, this little flower had found a…

As we headed to Rainbow Point, the rain really begun to come down.  We had hoped that the sun would peak through the clouds and produce a lovely rainbow for us.  That was not to be on this day.  Rainbow Point would be our final stop in Bryce Canyon as we decided not to hike to Yovimpa Point.  Thanks to the shelter of a building and some trees, we were able to keep from getting completely soaked on this leg of our journey. We have one final stop at Bryce Canyon before we move on to our next destination, but…

At Ponderosa Point, we could see beautiful hoodoos and fins, the grey and white cliffs, and the pines in the canyon below. Up next… Rainbow Point.