Bryce Canyon National Park

Days 67 and 68 of my trip were spent at Bryce Canyon National Park. It was late April, and Bryce, which is at elevations over 8000', was on the chilly side. Some trails were still snow-bound and not recommended for hiking. That said, many of the best trails were open. I first went on the Navajo-Peekaboo-Queen's loop, roughly 6.5 miles of hiking amongst the hoodoos. The next day I went to Fairyland. This post has a subset of the 100+ pictures I took along the way.

Bear visits the Bryce Canyon NP sign

Bryce is not actually a canyon -- its formations are along one of the cliffs that form part of the Grand Staircase. Here we get some view of the cliff-line.

This is known as the Silent Army. It's basically an amphitheater full of hoodoos. The first pic is taken from the rim, the second is a view from the Peekaboo Trail where it quite suddenly comes through a tunnel onto the amphitheater -- it's a quite impressive view.

The Navajo Trail descends steeply into the hoodoos from the rim, switching back all the way. Improbably, there was a tree growing amongs the closely spaced hoodoos, with just a fringe of green poking up above.

Bryce doesn't just have hoodoos. It has arches and bridge-like structures, too. the first pic is of a formation in Fairyland called Tower Bridge.

Bryce has its share of anthropomorphic figures...