Cedar Breaks, Coral Sands, Kanab

We began our day by scouting around Cedar City. Seems like a nice prosperous town. Home of Southern Utah University. The motel we had, Abbey Inn, was great! Very unique - they had their free hot breakfast in a residential home next door. Very cute! Reasonably priced, too. Would recommend.

The weather is perfect! Not a cloud! We headed up through canyons on a beautiful road through aspens that were changing to their fall yellow colors. We arrived at the top of Cedar Breaks (misnamed because there are no cedars!) We were not expecting to be at an elevation of 10500 feet! And, it was cold, only 42 degrees, but little wind and bright sun. We took a 2.5 miles hike to Alpine Pond - a nice walk in the woods.

Then we headed down the mountain on our way to Kanab and stopped to visit the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. Beautiful cinnamon colored dunes.

We arrived in Kanab about 6:00PM to our cutsey little motel Quail Park Lodge. Dinner across the street at Spurs - meh.

Many Miles to Cedar City

All driving today - 600 miles to Cedar City, Utah. Weather was mostly clear, a few showers here and there, temps in the low 60s. Two objectives reached - Free coffee day at the new Dunkin Donuts in West Jordan, and a brief stop at IKEA.

Arrived Cedar City at about 6:30, found a good room at the Abby Inn, dinner next door at IHOP.

Tomorrow will explore Cedar Breaks Nat'l Monument and some geologic features around Kanab, Utah. No more long mileage days until we return home next week.

Leaving Early Tomorrow!

Leaving bright and early in the morning, maybe getting as far as Cedar City, Utah. We have to leave early if Linda wants to stop at IKEA on the way by!

This is a continuation of our trip down there in spring of 2013. This time our goal is to visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the Chaco Canyon National Historical Site. Both of these are out of the way and we just didn't have time on the last trip. Besides, we'll go to Southern Utah anytime!

(Note: an annoying feature of this Blogpost program is that it will only display your posts with the most recent at the top. It should be the other way around. So, to get to the beginning, or see previous day's posts, you have to scroll down)