{"id":1770,"date":"2017-11-19T17:53:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T22:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2025-08-10T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:53:07","slug":"zion-sedona-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/zion-sedona-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion, Bryce, and Sedona ’17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Winter has typically been the time we dream about far away places, planning our late-summer\/early fall adventures to new places with trails, refugios<\/a>, berghaus<\/a>‘, and outdoor time.\u00a0 This past winter, however, was one filled with family affairs – my Dad’s passing, closing his estate, selling the family house – it didn’t really leave much time to think about those far away places.\u00a0 So it wasn’t until April, as those affairs settled, that we cracked open a map (or more correctly, started browsing Kayak and Tripadvisor for available, and relatively low air fares).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which brought us to the American Southwest – Zion National Park and Sedona, Arizona.  The plan was simple, fly to Vegas, drive to Zion to hike for a few days, drive to Sedona, stopping in Page, AZ for an overnight and a hike in one of the many slot canyons in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But plans change – we’d left a bit of room in the plan for some spontaneity – which we’ve learned to welcome in our travels.  This trip was no exception – on a whim, we fit in a day at Bryce National Park, a last minute (day before) idea.  It did not disappoint, and indeed, ranks amongst our top 5 best hikes ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a summary of our travels – read on and enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/th>day-time activities<\/strong><\/th>Location<\/strong><\/th>Blog post<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Fri, 10th<\/sup><\/td>Fly to Vegas, drive to Zion\/Springdale, UT<\/td>Springdale, UT<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Sat-Sun, 11th<\/sup>\/12th<\/sup><\/td>Hiking in Zion<\/td>Zion National Park<\/td>Hike Zion<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Mon, 13th<\/sup><\/td>Hiking in Bryce<\/td>Bryce National Park<\/td>Hike Bryce<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Tue, 14th<\/sup><\/td>Drive to Page, AZ; Hike Buckskin Gulch<\/td>Page, AZ<\/td>Hike Buckskin Gulch<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Wed-Fri, 15th<\/sup>-18th<\/sup><\/td>Hiking (and relaxing) in Sedona<\/td>Sedona, AZ<\/td>Hiking Sedona, AZ<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Sat, 19th<\/sup><\/td>Drive to Phoenix; Fly home<\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

and so we were off… Read more about each of the legs of the trip by clicking the links in the table. Be sure to check out the Bryce photos<\/a> – some stunning scenery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter has typically been the time we dream about far away places, planning our late-summer\/early fall adventures to new places with trails, refugios, berghaus‘, and outdoor time.\u00a0 This past winter, however, was one filled with family affairs – my Dad’s passing, closing his estate, selling the family house – it didn’t really leave much time to think about those far away places.\u00a0 So it wasn’t until April, as those affairs settled, that we cracked open a map (or more correctly,Read More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zionsedona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4927,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/4927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}