Sept. 15, 2010 Bauer’s Canyon Ranch RV Park Glendale, Utah

We drove just 1½ hours this morning to get here which is near Zion National Park. We just parked the trailer, ate a little snack and left to drive another 2 hours south of here to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We had never been there before, we’ve just been to the more popular South Rim, which is where we are headed again after we leave here in two days. It will be about 5 hours to the South Rim from here and the North Rim would be out of the way and add quite a bit to the trip, so since we had the afternoon left we went there today. We’ll have the whole day tomorrow to devote to Zion. The North Rim is higher in altitude and is shut during the winter months because of the sever weather. It also is not as developed with hotels and restaurants. Prior to getting to the entrance of the park, we were in the Kaibab National Forest. There we saw a buffalo herd, a mule deer, a fox and a flock of wild turkeys. The flock of turkeys was really large, there must have been 20 to 25 in it and they were crossing the road. . We also saw 3 mule deer in the park as we were leaving.