Red Canyon, More Dixie National Forest and Sunset in Escalante (Saturday Part 2)

We went from the snow covered mountains and lots of trees back to the other extreme. More desert and lots of canyons and rock formations. I took so many pictures of so many pretty and different landscapes. I had a hard time narrowing it down to just a few photos to post here, so I decided to make this slide show. These are pictures from Red Canyon, the area around Bryce Canyon, more of the Dixie National Forest and also parts of the Escalante National Monument.

It was dark by the time we exited from the mountains. We ended up traveling on this scenic bypass for 6 hours! We didn't think we were ever going to get out of there. We went from mountains to the low valleys and back into mountains over and over until we finally got back out to the interstate. It was late and we wished we had started out earlier. But we were very glad that we had gone that way. The sights we all see will always be remembered. And I just can't say enough how blessed we are by God to be living in such a beautiful country. America the Beautiful!

We made it to Grand Junction, Colorado right at midnight. We were so exhausted, we all slept in our clothes once we got into our room (which was FAIL, as Daniel puts it). But we were able to get some good rest before waking up Sunday morning.