Day 66: Kodachrome State Park, UT
Trip Start
Jun 21, 2008
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Trip End
Ongoing
Kodachrome State Park,
Utah,
United States
Monday, August 25, 2008
Left Arches NP one day early because it was too hot.
Got up early with the sun. Packed up, while watching the sunrise and taking pictures. Drove to Delicate Arch area - this time we took the trail to the arch (3-mile roundtrip). We were planning to do this yesterday evening but the trailhead Parking lot was full. Beautiful at the top! The trail is great because it is designed to hide the arch until the last moment.
After the walk, we headed straight to Starbucks for some tasty coffee! Then we drove all day.
The highlight of the day was picking peaches at Capital Reef NP. They have historic orchards in the park - right next to the road. We stopped and picked a pound of peaches for $1. Might have picked more, but there were large thunder clouds in the sky. Michael used a picker - a claw on a stick basically - very cool. And the peaches were delicious!
We drove on Scenic Highway 12 - beautiful drive. Stopped several times for pictures. Ended the day at Kodachrome State Park. A very nice park with free showers! Hooray!
We also fed chukars and rabbits. They were feeding on something in a grassy campsite, and a park maintenance person gave us a bag of feed to throw to them. Neat.
