Once again I found myself walking among the trees and hanging gardens along the noisy river at the bottom of towering red sandstone cliffs stained black with desert varnish. I was back at Zion National Park in southwestern Utah, and the path along the river, the beginning of the river walk into The Narrows, is always a must. It is a paved trail, easily accessible to anybody, and is therefore very popular, but well worth the crowds. Trees line the bottom of the canyon where the river doesn't run while mule deer and rock squirrels make a living between the river and the cliffs. Zion Canyon narrows the farther upstream you go, and the red cliffs seem to loom above you. Dirt trails crisscross themselves along the banks of the river where it swings against one wall or the other, and it is here that mule deer and humans coexist. Going to Zion someday? Make this path a priority.
Leave me a comment below and tell me if you've ever been here. Do you want to go?
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