In the afternoon, Marcel & I went for a drive to Wal-Mart, which turned out to be a scenic drive from hell. The woman at the campground gave me directions for a 20-mile scenic drive to Kolob Canyon, but being directionally challenged, I instructed the driver to turn one street earlier than we should have. It started out at 2:30, to be a nice drive at 3200 ft., but soon deteriorated to a narrow, rocky trail, going up & up on Mesa Road.
15 minutes later, we were at just over 5000 ft., then at 3:06 w were at 5600 ft. The views were awesome, even if we were on the wrong road (which we didn't know yet)
By 3:30 we were at 5800 ft., among flat plains at the top of the mesa, where there were a couple of ranches and cattle grazing. One wonders if you would need a helicopter to access this place!By 4:00, we passed a sign the read "Entering Zion National Park."! A short while later, we passed a sign at a fork in the road, (when I looked back) for Kolob Canyon. Apparently, we were on Smith Mesa. Oops.
Yet another winding road, down this time. It seem that at least once on every trip we end up on an off-roading adventure!This pic shows where we were - at the top of the mesa!
The truck sure needed a wash after this trip as it was covered in red dust!
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