It was a fairly short drive to Zion National Park from Page. Plus we gained an extra hour because Utah observes daylight savings time and Arizona does not.
The windy road into the park has fantastic scenery.
You'd like to stop and admire the scenery, but it's hard finding a parking spot towing a trailer.
It's best just to concentrate on your driving
And watch out for the usual national park drivers that aren't watching where they are going.
At the park entrance they check your rv height and length.
Vehicles over 13 feet tall, over 40 feet long, and vehicles and trailers with combined length over 50 feet can't fit in the
Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel, which was built in 1930.
We can fit through but because we are over 7 feet 10 inches wide we have to pay $15.
They stop traffic at the tunnel and let only one lane go through.
And we're off. It's a long tunnel, over 1 mile long and when constructed was the longest tunnel in the US.
Our campsite in the Watchman campground has a great view of its namesake, the Watchman Spire.
Once we got set up we went for a walk down the Pa'rus Trail
Which follows the Virgin River towards the entrance to Zion Canyon.
There's no shortage of rock squirrels in the park.
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