Bryce Canyon Day One

 

Always take the road less traveled!

June 13 2024

Nine AM and we were on the road again. Instead of the direct route from Zion to Bryce Canyon we went up interstate 15 to Cedar City. We turned east on Highway14, this way would be a few miles longer but it follows the Cedar River thru beautiful Cedar Canyon and over a spectacular mountain pass that may or may not be called Cedar Pass!  Once over the mountain range we reconnected with Hwy 89, the road to Bryce.

Bryce Canyon City aka Ruby's Inn

Our campground reservation is at Ruby’s Inn RV Park in Bryce Canyon City. That’s kind of a misnomer, there is no city or even a town. Bryce Canyon City is a conglomerate of every needed amenity located just outside the park entrance. Hotels, campground restaurants, general store , dinner theater, pizza/sandwich café, fuel station, car/rv wash, several gift and souvenir shops, shuttle bus parking and a rodeo. All of this is owned by the descendants of Rueben C. “Ruby” Syrett who started the business in 1916.

The Silver Bullet at the main Lodge at Ruby's

The campground is large having 250 campsites for anything from tent campers to the largest RV’s. We have a nice partially shaded full hookup site on the end a row, so we only have neighbors on one side.

Home Sweet Home

We have scheduled a semi-private (two couples) guided tour of the park for tomorrow. This afternoon we drove around the outside perimeter of the park to a waterfall. It was a 1/2-mile hike, the weather was in the low 80's, it was very comfortable. We discovered the water flowing over the falls comes down a diversion canal to the falls. Between 1890's four Morman Pioneers labored for four years to dig the ten-mile canal by hand. It was originally used to supply water to the newly established town of Topic.

The falls at Mosley Cave