This three-day, two-night trip allows you to see and experience the best of the Bryce Canyon National Park area. Hike among the red rock hoodoos of Bryce Canyon. Travel along one of America's most beautiful highways, Scenic Byway Drive into the park and stop at the Visitor Center to get an overview of the area. If you want to take a short hike, the easiest trail is the section of Rim Trail between Sunset and Sunrise Points.
It begins up at Bryce Point, arguably one of the best vistas in the park, zigzagging down the rim and into the canyon, where it splits into a loop trail that eventually meets up with the Navajo Loop Trail. Take the trail to Sunset Loop where you will pass Thor's Hammer. Professional wranglers will put you on well-trained horses and guide you through beautiful Red Canyon, just west of the National Park. Minimum age is 7 years old. Planning to visit Zion National Park too? Check out this guide on the best time of year to visit Zion National Park.
The park service offers an optional shuttle during peak season, April to October. The shuttle starts running at 8 am between the town of Bryce and Bryce Point. Stops include the visitor center, campgrounds, and the famous park lodge. If you plan to take the shuttle, park at the shuttle stop outside of the park limits in Bryce.
This saves you the difficulty of finding parking at the visitor center or the lodge. You can book the 3. While the park shuttle is a nice option for those arriving later in the day when parking will be scarce, I prefer the flexibility of having my own vehicle. By 9 or 10 am, parking begins to get difficult at popular parking lots, like the visitor center and the lodge. I recommend arriving before sun up for some night sky and sunrise photography.
Bryce Canyon Tip Start your day in the northern part of the park, exploring the main amphitheater and Bryce Canyon Lodge. Save the southern part of the park, like the drive to Rainbow Point, for later in the day. The late-arrivers circling the parking lot near the lodge will gladly accept your parking spot. Bryce is only a 5-minute drive from the visitor center and park entrance.
Plus, the park shuttle and tours to Rainbow Point start from the hotels here. This small tourist haven outside the park offers hotels, restaurants, and RV parks and campgrounds.
You can also reserve cabins at this campground. Only 15 minutes from the park, Tropic offers budget motels and inns. I stayed at the Bryce Canyon Inn — a no-frills, log-cabin-inspired hotel. Built in , this historic, and rustic, The Lodge at Bryce Canyon is a popular park attraction. With only guest rooms, reserving the lodge as soon as reservations open is essential.
You can book a stay at the lodge 13 months in advance. North Campground is open all year and is first-come, first-served. Sunset Campground accepts reservations 6-months in advance through Recreation. Gov for May to October. Sunset Campground is closed in the winter. Both campgrounds have roughly campsites each. This one-way mile hike takes days and requires a backcountry permit. The trail covers the length of the park from Bryce Point up to Rainbow Point.
As the name implies, you spend the majority of the hike underneath the rim of the amphitheater amongst the hoodoos. This trail gives amazing views of canyon and hoodoos. You can start from either Fairyland Point in the north or Bryce Point in the south. There are loop trails starting from several of these points if you want to add in a trail leading into the canyon. I f you are walking from one point to another and not walking back to your starting point, make sure you arrange for a pick-up or shuttle ride at the end of your hike.
Low light pollution makes for very dark skies, allowing for thousands of stars to be visible on a clear night. You can drive to one of the lookout points Bryce Point is a good one as it is on a kind of a peninsula, so you get almost all-around views of the canyon to enjoy the sunset, and then stay as it gets dark for some stargazing. You can also join the rangers and volunteer astronomers for various astronomy programs throughout the year.
The park also offers a very special ranger-led night hike during the full moon. It is rather touristy, but if you want to browse for any Bryce Canyon souvenirs , rocks, get some ice cream, or need to go to a general store, this is the place to go. Below are some places to grab lunch, dinner, or food in and near Bryce Canyon National Park.
The restaurant is located in the year-old lodge inside Bryce Canyon National Park and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a rustic dining room with a large stone fireplace. The restaurant is committed to using local, sustainable, and organic ingredients as much as possible, and offers vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free items as well. Enjoy a diverse range of offerings such as burgers, sandwiches, salads, fish, elk chili, and noodle bowls.
Also located at the Lodge, this casual cafe offers pizzas, salads, pastries, and coffee for the lunch and dinner hours. You can build your own pizza from a variety of toppings or order one of their specials. This store is located right by Sunrise Point.
It is a convenient place to buy a picnic lunch to take on your hike. The store offers a selection of groceries as well as freshly prepared grab-and-go hot and cold food items.
The cozy cafe is the perfect stop for coffee lovers and a great place to go on your way in or out of Bryce Canyon. With a full menu of coffee and tea drinks, it also has baked goods, smoothies, and some fun merch like stickers, coffee mugs, and t-shirts. You can find Bryce Canyon Coffee Co. Are you planning to visit Bryce Canyon in winte r? The park may not be the warmest one then temperatures hover around 32F , but it is still possible and you will definitely not find the summer crowds then!
One of the main reasons to visit Bryce Canyon National Park in winter is that a layer of snow generally covers the park — and it is remarkable! The Bryce Amphitheater is especially jaw-dropping under a layer of snow.
One of the best activities during winter in Bryce Canyon is snowshoeing! You can also join a snowshoe Ranger Program at Bryce Canyon.
Snowshoes and poles are free when you do this. Some other fun winter activities in Bryce Canyon are cross-country skiing, winter backpacking, stargazing, and more! Bryce Canyon is not a park with a variety of things to do; the Utah park is more about the natural attractions and hikes within it. Below is a rough, suggested itinerary for Bryce Canyon National Park if you have merely one day to spend there. This website contains affiliate links from websites such as Amazon. If you use the links provided and make a purchase, we get a small commission at no extra cost to you.
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