Kodachrome Basin State Park

We knew that we couldn't top the views at Bryce Canyon National Park, but we had heard good things about the state park just down the road.  Using that Utah State Park pass again, we went to Kodachrome Basin Park the next day.  

It's another 90 degree day.  After spending the summer in the cool mountains, we're certainly not acclimatized to this heat.  Denisa brought out the heavy artillery today.  Last year at the Oklahoma state fair she bought one of those special towels that you soak in cool water and wear around your neck.  Guaranteed to keep you cool, it was nice to have some neck air-conditioning on this hike in the sun.

 Again we made more international friends.  This picture was taken by a young woman from Germany who was traveling by herself for three weeks across the United States.  We also took pictures for another group of five college-age girls from Austria and Germany that were spending six and half weeks in the U.S.  

The name of this 1.5 mile hike is "Angel's Palace."  It was filled with heavenly views!  It's hard to capture the massive size of these pink and white canyon walls.  Mark is standing in the center bottom of the following picture.  You can barely see his six-foot-tall frame in front of those cliffs.

 Is it just the heat, or does this section look like bubble loaf?  We often talk about food on these hikes, and it looks like we will be baking a bubble loaf soon.

 That trail was so much fun, we decided to try another.  So we drove to another section of the park and started the Shakespeare Arch trail.  I doth think that this fair suitor looks like a man of short stature beneath the Arch of Shakepeare.  We oft have seen arches, but this is the lone arch in the park of today's traverses.

The second point of interest on this hike was the Sentinel Spire.  There are nearly 70 spires found all over this park, but this is one of the tallest.  If you look carefully, you can barely see Denisa standing her tallest 5 foot-2 and 3/4 inches at the base of the sentinel spire.  At the end of the hike we will circle up on top of the slick rock right behind the spire and be hiking by the trees at the top.

This was another fun 1.7 mile hike through some great red sandstone formations.  They were massive when we hiked beside them.

When we hiked to the top of the red stone cliffs, we had a 360-degree view of the interesting formations all around us.  This Kodachrome Basin state park was named (with the permission of the Kodak company) because of the great color and contrast found in these views.  We found another of God's wonders!