Kodachrome Basin State Park - Cannonville, UT

While Bryce has been incredibly beautiful, it's also been DARN COLD! I hate to leave, but I'm really looking forward to heading down a few thousand feet to Kodachrome State Park. Kodachrome is at a toasty 5,800 ft!

In 1948, a National Geographic expedition, which explored and photographed the area for an article, named it after the popular Kodak film because of its color and beauty.

Looking down from a hike at our campground

We stay at the Basin campground and spend about six days here. Our first couple of days, our router picked up a weak cell signal, so we had wifi. Unfortunately, we had to move to another site that got no cell signal for the rest of our stay. We make a trip into town to get supplies, send out some texts, and check out the surrounding area. One of the places we visited was the Escalante Petrified Forest. It's amazing to look at these petrified pieces, you would expect it to still look and feel like wood.

Without a internet, what are we going to do with our time? First order is to hike the Angel's Palace Trail. This trail goes along the top of the sandstone cliffs for about 1.5 miles and has great views of the basin below. There are several spurs that take you out on narrow paths to overlooks for great photo ops. Unlike Tom, who is fearless, I had to follow Tank's wagging tail and not look over the edge to get to and from the view points!

A couple of days later, we do the Sentinel Trail. This is a 1.7 mile trail that takes you to Shakespeare Arch and Sentinel Spire beyond that. The trail was a little narrower (scarier) than I normally do, but the days have been perfect for hiking, and it was beautiful and great fun! As an added bonus, it was a good way to get a view of the Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Sentinel Trail and Shakespeare Arch

Inside the park are a number (they say 67) of stone spires, called sedimentary pipes.

Chimney Rock

Chimney rock is the tallest of the 67 spires in the park at 170 feet tall.