It’s only about 70 miles from Zion to Bryce Canyon, so we were able to see both national parks on the same day.   At Sunset Point, elevation 8,000 feet, we sat in on a park ranger’s geology talk.  He reviewed decades of recent precipitation/temperature data recorded in Bryce Canyon and millions of years of weather and geologic forces that have created the strange-looking pillars of rock called hoodoos that make the park so distinctive.

Kev and I walked along the canyon rim but didn’t venture down into the hoodoos, fins, mazes, pinnacles and spires.  The trails are steep but for someone with limited walking ability, a lot can be seen from up top.  The colors are breathtaking.  Rock formations in Bryce Canyon started developing in the Cretaceous Period, which began 144 million years ago and lasted until about 65 million years ago.