May 10 Bryce to Zion

We left Bryce about 11 am. The park is smaller than I thought and didn't take too long to see.

Zion Canyon is only about a 2 hour drive away.

It is a nice drive, not too hilly, lots of ranches and more trees than before. Kind of looks like the Okanagan except for the towering cliffs everywhere.
Just south of Hatch, Utah ,pop. 125 , we had a prairie dog scare. All of a sudden there were 4 on the white line to the right so I edged to the left only to see one on the center line. After much swerving and potential trailer fishtailing , we avoided running over any of the little varmints.
Karen swears one of them gave us the one finger salute as we sped by!

At the east entrance to Zion is a 1 mile long tunnel that any vehicle over 7 ft wide has to pay $15 dollars to pass through. This is on top of the $25 park entry fee.
They stop all the oncoming traffic and you drive through on the center line. The tunnel is unlit except for some windows cut into the sides every few hundred feet. Very strange driving experience.

One of the pictures shows one of the windows from below.
After you exit the tunnel there is a series of switchbacks taking you to the bottom of the canyon. The temperature went from 52 at the top to 64 at the bottom.

We checked into our rv park in Springdale which is just outside the park.
We have a great site, right next to the Virgin River. We have tv and pretty good wi-fi. The sun is warm , we don't have to drive anywhere tomorrow, Nirvana!!