We actually drove for 1 hour to get to Newspaper Rock National Historic Site (a totally unplanned stop).
It took us another 30-45 minutes to get to Needles, our original destination. Needles is a unit of Canyonlands National Park.
"There are 4 units in Canyonlands... They all have different stuff in them."
We took some awesome pictures, and also got a Junior Ranger Book...
(It is at this point that I need to tell you all about our "Junior Ranger Adventures". This is a link to my family's website --> the Junior Ranger page. [Just FYI, it isn't caught up quite yet.])
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Then, after leaving there, we went drove 1 1/4 hours to get to Natural Bridges National Monument.
"Natural Bridges was actually Utah's first National Monument. Cool, huh?"
Yep. Natural Bridges was really cool.
Basically, when there were lots of canyons and rivers flowed though them, making them bigger, the rivers liked to meander, and wander around. Sometimes, the river would wear away a the sides of a canyon enough, it made a "shortcut". Then, at the shortcut, it would wear away the bottom, but not the top, because the river wasn't that high up. So the river wore away at the canyon bottom, and made these bridges.
"Eventually, they fall apart... But new ones are being made, slowly over time."
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We hiked to the Sipapu bridge.
"It is the second largest natural bridge in the world!"
The hike was only 2 miles, but it was very hard. There were 3 VERY rickety wooden ladders we had to climb down, and some places that had these railings on a very steep rock. It was cool though, because we got to stand directly below the bridge.
We also went on another short but steep hike, and got to stand under another bridge.
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Then we left, but with a long drive home, we got to stop at Subway on the way back. We rolled into the cabin at 8:00.
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Tomorrow's Hint:
We are going to a different unit...
If you need inspiration, go back to the start of today's post.
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