Zion Scape © 2010 Bo Mackison
A few more photographs of Zion National Park before we leave Utah and head into northern Arizona.
Layers Of Zion Rock © 2010 Bo Mackison
Zion has eight layers of sandstone, some as old as two-hundred-million years. The entire park is covered with red rock, deep winding canyons, desert-scapes, mesas, and buttes making this area in Southern Utah a spectacular vision.
Zion Desert Scape © 2010 Bo Mackison
Our weather was overcast, sometimes rainy, sometimes the clouds opened just enough to let a bit of blue peek through, but since we were only in the park one night and one day, we had to enjoy the scenery with the weather as it was.
Summit Trees © 2010 Bo Mackison
I love this line of trees on the ledge of the rocks.
Checkerboard Mesa © 2010 Bo Mackison
Checkerboard Mesa is a mass of orange and brown slickrock. The huge rock towers more than 900 feet above the Zion-Mt Carmel Highway. It gets its name because it has the appearance of a huge checkerboard with vertical and horizontal fissures carved into the rock from top to bottom.
Next: Glen Canyon Dam and NRA.
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Pretty shots! I especially like to see some of the plants in bloom. That would be a good time to visit there.
Ah, very cool, very cool indeed.