{"id":297,"date":"2008-06-30T21:54:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T04:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/impressions\/2008-06\/whitewater-canyon-from-colorado-city\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T04:54:31","slug":"whitewater-canyon-from-colorado-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/2008\/06\/30\/whitewater-canyon-from-colorado-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitewater Canyon from Colorado City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, we had to drive from highway 59 directly through Hildale and Colorado city – I have no clue where one ends and the other starts. To the very corner of them where the mountains are letting out a small stream. The road has the same name – Whitewater canyon, so there is no way of getting lost. But then it gets bad, really bumpy and in places like a ditch. In spite of that we managed to reach the very end of it – a small parking place with several big trucks there already. Some people from around here don’t believe in driving smaller cars when not carrying big loads…At some point, I guess, the gas prices will change the belief system. And there we started – on a very sandy path by the stream. To tell the truth – it was not an easy walk, not so much up, mostly a little up and down, but the sand made you feel as if you are in a bad dream sliding back with each step. It was the end of April, so there were cacti blooming:<\/p>\n

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Being careful not to step on some prickly ones little by little we reached the main feature – the narrow part of the canyon with a little waterfall and steep rocks:<\/p>\n

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This was the view in front of us:<\/p>\n

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Pretty. But we had to pursue our trip upwards. It was tricky to find which side of the steep canyon to climb, where was a passable route. On the left side. So here we climbed it and continued to walk on slick rock ( and believe me – it is much more comfortable than sand) and then again sand-rock-cacti, bushes, up and up the slope of the canyon towards the pines we could see on its edge.<\/p>\n

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It was a pretty long climbing, maybe for a couple of hours until we reached the top more or less (I say more or less because even if you think you have reached the top – there are still ways to go up) and had lunch there with the beautiful vistas, slick rock and pine trees:<\/p>\n

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So we still went further up a little till we reached a real edge of that mountain facing the vistas to the other side. Though the latter ones looked the same – this or that side. Red mountains in far distance, perfectly clear skies, that is what Southern Utah is.<\/p>\n

And then we descended the same way we came up, except that the views always look a little different and it is now harder on your knees not as much on your lungs:<\/p>\n

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And then we lifted our heads and noticed an arch high up on the left side of canyon wall looking towards descend, towards Colorado city:<\/p>\n

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Some adventurous people we met on the trail hiked there to have fun walking on it…not us. I wish we could see them over there while we were taking pictures, but to no luck.<\/p>\n

And here we were again passing the cacti:<\/p>\n

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crossing Colorado city with its huge homes with multiple wives:<\/p>\n

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and back to our not so big home though it is also a B&B. We reached our Rockville via a back road which is not so good as driving through Hurricane, but is very picturesque:<\/p>\n

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Till next trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, we had to drive from highway 59 directly through Hildale and Colorado city – I have no clue where one ends and the other starts. To the very corner of them where the mountains are letting out a small stream. The road has the same name – Whitewater canyon, so there is no way … Continue reading Whitewater Canyon from Colorado City<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[60,134,155],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips","category-utah","tag-colorado-city","tag-southern-utah","tag-whitewater-canyon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}