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Great thread, just noticed it.
We have never been to Utah before (except to change planes) but circumstances lead us to making two trips this year.
In July, we are driving up to Park City for a week at Marriott Mountainside. I want to mountain bike the area. On the drive up, I’d like to ride a mountain bike trail called Thunder Mountain. It’s just outside Panguitch, about 40 min west of Bryce Canyon NP. We booked two nights in this little log cabin, about a 7 minute drive from the trailhead.
I know it will be summer and hot, but the elevation is fairly high and I would like to ride close to dawn anyway. The cabin is on this property: https://www.brycecanyoncabins.com/
After our week in Park City, we’ll stay two nights at the Lodge at Bryce Canyon. Unfortunately weekend days, but that’s just how the trip worked out. We’ll leave Park City fairly early and hopefully arrive Bryce Canyon around 11am on a Friday.
My thought is to drive out to Rainbow Point, hike Bristlecone Trail, then stop off at all the overlooks on the way back to the lodge. Check in to the Lodge, grab an early dinner in the dining room and then maybe a short hike below the Canyon rim if we’re up to it, or a ranger program, or just chill if we’re tired.
Sat am, I have an 8am, three hour horseback ride booked down into the canyon floor and then back by 11. We’re planning on watching sunrise on the rim prior to the horseback trip, with a picnic breakfast. Lunch at the dining room after the horse trip and then I’d love to hike some more- ideally Fairyland Trail. But that’s 7.5 miles, might have to settle for something shorter and more crowded.
Sun, we need to hit the road early, so we won’t have time for much of anything besides packing the car.
I think I have a pretty good handle on this trip, but comments and suggestions are welcome.
The other trip is to St George and Zion, I’ll write a separate post on that one.
We have never been to Utah before (except to change planes) but circumstances lead us to making two trips this year.
In July, we are driving up to Park City for a week at Marriott Mountainside. I want to mountain bike the area. On the drive up, I’d like to ride a mountain bike trail called Thunder Mountain. It’s just outside Panguitch, about 40 min west of Bryce Canyon NP. We booked two nights in this little log cabin, about a 7 minute drive from the trailhead.
I know it will be summer and hot, but the elevation is fairly high and I would like to ride close to dawn anyway. The cabin is on this property: https://www.brycecanyoncabins.com/
After our week in Park City, we’ll stay two nights at the Lodge at Bryce Canyon. Unfortunately weekend days, but that’s just how the trip worked out. We’ll leave Park City fairly early and hopefully arrive Bryce Canyon around 11am on a Friday.
My thought is to drive out to Rainbow Point, hike Bristlecone Trail, then stop off at all the overlooks on the way back to the lodge. Check in to the Lodge, grab an early dinner in the dining room and then maybe a short hike below the Canyon rim if we’re up to it, or a ranger program, or just chill if we’re tired.
Sat am, I have an 8am, three hour horseback ride booked down into the canyon floor and then back by 11. We’re planning on watching sunrise on the rim prior to the horseback trip, with a picnic breakfast. Lunch at the dining room after the horse trip and then I’d love to hike some more- ideally Fairyland Trail. But that’s 7.5 miles, might have to settle for something shorter and more crowded.
Sun, we need to hit the road early, so we won’t have time for much of anything besides packing the car.
I think I have a pretty good handle on this trip, but comments and suggestions are welcome.
The other trip is to St George and Zion, I’ll write a separate post on that one.