Cathedral Canyon State Park

Thursday Sept 27thWe pulled in to a place called Cathedral State Park. A small and charming state Park, near to Panaca, with a lovely campground, where we were able to get a great spot in the shade, as we are still regularly getting temperatures in the 80's, though it gets cold at night.

We decided to take an extra day here to explore the famous Cathedral Canyon formations. Soft clay beds which have been eroded into some pretty weird shapes. Most amazing are the little slot canyons that have formed, narrow passageways which are up to 40 high, but only a foot or so wide, with completely vertical sides. As you walked through them you were enveloped in a delicious, shady, coolness. Quite fascinating.

Friday saw us back on the road, moving on to Cedar City, the local centre, with the only Walmart for about 200 miles (except St George to the south). We stopped there to collect supplies and share a meal at Applebees. Then on through the Cedar Breaks National Park to stay at Duck Creek Campground. On Saturday we moved on to Bryce Canyon, hoping to get a site in the Sunset campground, having realised that Saturday would probably be busy. However our anxiety was ill founded, as we had no trouble getting a very pleasant pull through site, ready to revisit Bryce Canyon the next day