| | Lynn and I spent a few days this week in Utah's Bryce and Zion National Parks. I know that folks will be asking me which Park I liked the best. That will be a question that will be impossible to answer. These two parks are as different as Prague is from Budapest. Bryce Canyon is literally a fairyland of hoodoos and amazing granite shapes..lovely to view and to photograph. Zion is big and bold granite mountains in totally different shapes that are beautiful at sunrise, sunset and every time in between. We saw great wildlife in both Parks...pronghorn antelope and deer in Bryce and a couple of herds of bighorn sheep in Zion.
In Bryce lodging was somewhat limited to either the lodge in the Park or one of the almost 400 rooms at Ruby's. ruby's is conveniently located just outside of the Park's gates. We stayed at Ruby's which is an attraction in itself. They have everything that the traveler might need...restaurants, shops, laundromats and beauty shops. Lynn loved shopping in their gift shops. In Zion most of the accommodations are in the town of Springdale, Utah which is on the West side of the park. These lodges range from mid-level to quite luxurious. We were traveling with our dog, a shih tzu, so we were confined to hotels that accepted pets. No problem at Ruby's..more difficult in Zion, but we did find a really nice hotel, the Driftwood Lodge in Springdale that had extremely strict requirements for lodging a pet. Basically, if you left the room you had to take your dog with you! This is the first time that we have ever encountered this. We were told that if a pet was left in the room for even 10 minutes and the management discovered this it is possible that they would call animal services and have the dog removed from the room! It is difficult taking a pet on a trip to one of the National Parks anyway since dogs are not allowed on any of the trails and can only be on a leash in the paved parking areas! I assume that a few people were careless with their animals...and thus, this silly rule.
I did photography in both parks at both sunrise and sunset. I expect to have some photos that I will be proud of and will display some here shortly.
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