Spectacular scenery. Didn't expect much but I was blown away.

Last year I went on a camping trip through the national parks of southern Utah, including Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches. While each of those parks is unique and amazing, Zion stood out as my favorite. It's basically a valley with huge rock formations rising up on both sides - think Yosemite, only more colorful and with more interesting shapes. Due to the high number of visitors, they've closed most of the park to traffic, so it's served by a system of buses. While it's frustrating not to be able to drive through the entire park, it makes the park much more quiet and peaceful. If you go to Zion, don't miss the hike out to Angel's Landing. It's somewhat demanding - the inclines are steep, and at several points you have to hold on to chains to stable yourself on sheer rock faces - but it's the most fun hike I've taken in years, and the views are phenomenal.

I personally pefer the nearby Bryce Canyon, but Zion is very beautiful too. And the best part is that this park is very accessible. Fly to Vegas cheap, rent a car and be at ZIon in about 2 hours. Even seniors can experience this park very well. There are buses and wel paved falt trails. Almost all hotels you stay at are covered all the war around with breathtaking scenries. You'll take one your best photographs here.

One word.... Breathtaking

One of the most outstanding american national parks. It is like the Yosemite of the southwest. The Temple of Sinavewa at the entrance to the narrows is THE most beeautiful place I have ever been to.

A very beautiful place. I hiked the narrows a few years ago and loved it. The old Pioneers used to call it "color country" down there. Not without reason, it's something you have to experience in your life.

One of the best parks I've been to in the Southwest. The most incredible thing about Zion, I thought, was the Narrows. The Narrows cover something like 14 miles of river through which you hike, right in the river bed with water depth varying from up to your calf to having to float along with your pack. Mini waterfalls of maybe 10 feet, pools of water to swim in, and really almost no land what-so-ever that isn't covered in water. In spots there are patches of land that are like short, steep riverbanks that climb maybe 15 feet above the water. The walls of the Narrows are rock cliffs that climb anywhere from, (I think) 100 to 2 or 300 feet straight up. You're literally walking through this tight little canyon pinched between these walls. At some points (the narrowest) you can reach across and touch both sides while looking up at only a small sliver of blue sky that's visible from the bottom of this enormous crack in which you stand. Flash floods are a big concern as you might imagine in such a confined area, and many people have been killed in the narrows. Some years before we went a whole troop of boy scouts got caught in a flood and they were all drowned. We decided to hike the whole thing over two days and spent the night in the heart of the Narrows on one of those patches of land maybe 15 feet above the water line. I was spooked the whole time with the fear that we would awake to the sound of raging water in the darkness with no place to scramble to and for all practical purposes, blind to the rush of water. Well as you can tell I made it but believe you me the whole way through I was like a caffeine junky I was so overly alert looking for signs of a flash flood. Clouds several miles behind, muddy water beneath your feet, the sound of thunder (which could just be the water) drop in temperature, etc. etc. I even remember all the signs today.