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After many weeks in Flagstaff and changing our minds about where to go and when, we decided to leave Arizona and head north to Utah. This detour meant we would not be able to visit Nevada and California as planned. Utah had very few cases of COVID and was starting to reopen businesses and parks in May. We stayed in Glendale, UT for five days - central to many parks, hikes and beautiful landscapes.

We stopped anyway!

Video - he had to see if he could throw a rock from the top and get it to land all the way below

Cool rock!

The change in elevation and scenery was amazing as we drove from Flagstaff to Glendale.

We were completely surrounded by rock walls

This was so amazing

Back at the little RV park in Glendale - exploring the area and found a creek close by

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More climbing outside of the slot canyon - so glad we did this ATV tour

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They think we need to buy one!

And of course, more rocks to climb

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The Colorado River cuts through the land here making for amazing landscapes like Horseshoe Bend.

Jackson was able to get Grace good!

J wanted to get closer to the edge for a better look of the drop off!

During our drive, we went by one of the items on my “must see list” Horseshoe Bend! It was a Friday and the park was open but not staffed.

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Some warmer days and no pool - means water fun with buckets

Kind of a difficult hike for Grace but she did great

View of what we’re about to climb

Jackson climbing up the side of this wall of sandstone

The pictures do not capture how enormous the rock wall formations are

Monkey see, monkey do!

The second part of our tour was a short hike through peekaboo slot canyon

We made the short hike to the river. It was much hotter than we expected!

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Over the weekend, we went on a hike called Squaw Trail in Kanab

No more snow capped mountain and pine trees!

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And a nice town park two blocks away

Pics of the landscapes around Glendale/Kanab

J even made a picnic lunch!

Picnic and reading on a glorious day

Also found an overlook of alfalfa fields - a major crop in this area

Always the leader!

Crab crawling down

We arrived in Glendale at a very small, clean, quiet RV park. Glendale is about the size of Amboy!

We saw a few boats and campers down below

Kanab - known as Little Hollywood because of the numerous western movies made here

Jackson took off running to go explore

Way too amazing to not stop and explore for a little while.

Getting close to the top!

It had been at least two months since the kids were allowed to play at a playground

We drove over to Zion NP on afternoon. The road was open for folks to drive through but you weren’t supposed to stop and explore.

Signs of spring

A small horse pasture right next to the RV park

Driving to Kanab

Following our guide, Gordon, through the dunes

Got a little dusty so goggles were needed

Lots of space to run!

Grace had to have Jackson lay down to pour it on him! Ha!

We stopped on the dunes to sled and sand board

Pink sand dunes for miles!

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Kids were very excited!

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Caves

We went on an ATV tour of Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park

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J tried feeding her but she wasn’t interested in our carrots!