Utah Vacation - Toadstools

I'm going to post way too many photos from this stop, because it was such a neat spot.  This morning we left Zion, driving along Route 89 to Page, AZ.  We had read about the Toadstools trailhead right along the road in southern Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, and figured it would be a good place to stop to break up the drive.


We ended up walking about 4 miles round trip.  We are heading for the red rock layer in the photo.


walking in a wash much of the time.


Then things got interesting.






The cliff behind the red rocks was pretty interesting too.  You can barely see me standing in this neat hole in the rock.


We read that you could get a view of the Paria River valley from up here, so we headed in roughly that direction.  We figured there must be a way through the red rocks in the distance.


So we started exploring


and made it through to this great view.


Then we finally turned around and retraced our steps.