Started our day at Bryce with a horseback ride. I thought I had booked the ride that goes down into the canyon, but this one just rode along the rim. It was still fun and so relaxing. Horses are so beautiful! I was assigned a white horse called Windy and she was so sweet. I wish I could have taken her home with me. I think I would maybe like to own a horse one day.
It was about 12:30 in the afternoon when we finished our ride and it was super hot! So we decided to go back to the trailer and have lunch. We heated up leftovers and sat outside on the picnic bench. After a little while the wind started kicking up a huge dust storm and then it started to rain which cooled things down a bit.
After the storm, we went back to Bryce. We started by driving to the end of the park and stopping at each of the scenic overlooks on the way back. As you drive through the park all you see is a pine forest. You would never know there is a huge, incredible Canyon to your left unless someone told you (or you stumbled upon it... hopefully not down it)!
At each overlook the hoodoos got more & more amazing! Until we finally reached the amphitheater at Sunset Point, which is definitely the crowning jewel of Bryce National Park. There we did the Navajo Loop trail which was a steep 1.3 mile hike (down via Wall Street & up via Two Bridges).
The Indians say that the hoodoos “stand as the men they were before ‘Coyote’ turned them into rocks.” I can see why they would think that because a lot of them definitely have personalities. It was fun to try and figure out what they looked like, just like you do with clouds.