Day 6 (August 12, 2023): Canyonlands National Park
We set out from the hotel in Torrey (adjacent to Capitol Reef National Park) at 8:30AM, bound for our fourth national park of this tour — Canyonlands National Park — in the east of the state. As impressed as we were by day’s end with Canyonlands, we were equally impressed with the drive from Torrey to Canyonlands. The sheer scale and variety of the mountains enroute were jaw-dropping. We couldn’t stop snapping pictures or pulling over to look closer. All that stopping enroute to gawk meant that what should have taken 2.5 hours took 4! We pulled into Canyonlands around 12:15 and started with a picnic lunch at the Visitor Center. Then we started out to explore the various sights along a 17-mile Scenic Drive in the park. At 4:30PM, as we had done at Zion, Bryce and Capitol Reef, we stopped by the Canyonlands Visitor Center to watch a documentary on the park, which pulled everything together nicely. By 5:30PM, we arrived in Moab, Utah’s eastern h...