Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 31 - Sunday, April 1, 2007

Zion National Park, UT

Today was our rest day at Zion.  We took a couple short walks with Lucy along the only trail in the park where dogs were allowed. 

We found that most all the National Parks are not “pet-friendly”.  Guess they do not want the pets chasing the game through the park.  Actually the next day when we did walk some of the other hikes we found that there was good reason to not let the pets on these other trails; it would be much too dangerous to allow pets there since they could cause a hiker to take a tumble down some of those steep drop offs on many of these mountain trails and that would not be good!

The main river traversing the park is the Virgin River although not deep it was rather fast moving.  Lucy going in for a drink got swept away rather quickly and we had to shout at her come several times before she was able to catch hold and pull herself out.  Her look of surprise mirrored our look of fear of watching her being swept away. 

In this campsite in the park we’re dry camping.  We have no hookups here for electric water or sewer although the campground does have drinking water stations were we can get water if we need it.  So once it got dark we could only use a few lamps for a limited time that were run off of the RV house batteries.  This was ok – since the hiking pretty much wore us out. 

posted by Richard @ 10:22 PM