hey guys welcome back to slow travel Chronicles my name is Stephanie I'm Garrett and in this video
we're going to talk about some of our time in Utah specifically when we visited Canyonlands National
Park it was our first time there and if you haven't already seen it um I have a link to our
Airbnb in Monticello video go check that out so we did several hikes in both the Needles District
and the island in the sky District Garrett's going to be able to tell you a little bit better about
those just because you know people aren't going to like this it's all rocked to me and they start to
blend together it was very pretty I'm glad I went and I do remember some specifics but not as much
as he did so you want to tell us about some of our hikes tell them about something like tell me about
some of the hikes two things I love Canyonlands it's one of my favorite national parks hands down
I thought it was great and yeah it's rock but it looks different from the other Rock in the state
so don't let Stephanie just wake you from going there anyway she mentioned we went to two of the
districts needles and island in the sky needles was closer to our place in Monticello I absolutely
loved it but it is a little bit more rough and rugged than island in the sky needles is more back
country four-wheel drive roads hikes that are like six eight ten miles and we didn't do any of those
while we were there we did the pothole Point Trail it's like basically a half a mile around the giant
rock and then the Slick Rock Trail which was like two and a half miles around a lot of rocks and the
trails there have at least the ones that we did have just sweeping views of the Horizon I mean
it's just beautiful You Can See For Miles you can see the needles formation we really enjoyed it the
day we were there was hot it was mid 70s which when you're on trails with no sun no shade no
shade yeah a lot of sun no shade can be a bit much at times but being from Memphis the heat wasn't
too bad but you know if you're from somewhere up north not used to the heat bring extra water yeah
I would say this is where I started uh getting my exercise in and gaining my trail legs I think I
did better as the trip progressed and we're going to talk about other national parks but the pothole
point that was super easy I like that one because I could do it weed it all up I did do all of them
um which ones did we do we did pothole point and Slick rock that was the needles and then
what did we do and then Island of the Skies a bit more of a polished area my bad I mean The
Visitor Center is bigger they got more facilities they got a lot more parking lots they have more
hikes we did the Grandview Trail White rim trail upheaval Dome and then we stopped at the Green
River Overlook in Mesa Arch we didn't do any of the longer hikes you know quite frankly it's our
first couple of days in Utah and neither one of us had the legs like hiked down into a canyon and
then hike back up so we did the easy stuff and it was beautiful we had great overlooks and sweeping
views over the Colorado River canyons and the Green River Canyons it was all just really nice
but I will just point out um the island of the sky district is fairly close to Moab and it's close to
arches so it gets a lot more traffic people that are in Moab and just want to go to Canyonlands
they're going to go to island in the sky Needles District shoot there wasn't hardly anybody there
and it was awesome I should point out that we did this over two days we had attempted to go to
arches one day and check out that video our recap of arches but we couldn't get into arches and so
we went to the island in the sky District um we ended up the next day coming or a couple days
later coming back to Moab and we rented a hotel room which wasn't in our initial plan just so that
we could get up and be to arches get to arches early in the morning so you may want to consider
that also one of the things that you should be aware of you are in the middle of nowhere in
Canyonlands and when their Visitor Center closes and the entrance gates close a you could drive
in they don't really care I guess or you probably don't care but if you break down you're stuck so
as we were coming out on our second day there was a lady that was probably 60 ish years old and she
had a flat tire and she didn't have a spare she had an electric vehicle that had a pump
she didn't know how to use the pump she waved us down we tried to help her but we've never
used that type of pump and it was one of those with sealant in it so you spray the seal on it
supposedly kind of fills in the hole fills up the tire so you can get to the nearest service station
when we pulled it out it had instructions but you had the scan the QR code to get the instructions
and you're not scanning anything and getting any internet out in Canyonlands yeah so we flagged
down several other cars a group of guys stopped to help they weren't any help at all so we ended
up driving her into a Outpost type of area where she was able to get make a call but you know she's
probably stuck there it was a Saturday I think or Friday it was a Saturday night about seven
o'clock Just Before Sunset and you know it's funny we spent five or ten minutes fiddling around with
this Contraption with the sealant and the air pump and decided we weren't sure how to use it
and didn't want to screw it up and these guys joined us and we explained the problem one of
the guys goes well I'm a mechanical engineer I'll figure it out he couldn't figure it out either
so you know just beware if you're going to be out in the middle of nowhere you know make sure
you have a couple extra gallons of water we did make sure you have a spare tire or you know how
to use whatever Contraption you've got to inflate your tire because a tow bill out there may take a
day or two it will be expensive and this poor lady on Saturday night you know the stuff in
Utah it's not really open on Sundays you know in Memphis everything's open on Sunday in Utah no not
really so it's not good yeah so the other thing I think and I should have looked this up before
the video but I'll put it in the description if I'm wrong I believe the cost to get in was
25 dollars per vehicle and that was a pass good for seven days we had a national parks pass and
based on all the parks that we went to in Utah it was definitely worth the eighty dollars for
a national park and pass so consider that and definitely would go back and in hindsight I
would say I would call Canyonlands a mix-up of Grand Canyons and the Badlands that's how
I come to do it okay I would say this if you're just going there and you're not in a four-wheel
you know truck with off-road tires if you're just going to see the sights probably about
three or four maybe five hours in the Needles District is plenty because really there's only
two trailers you can do there's not really any overlooks island of the sky District you know
maybe five or six hours if you do a couple of the shorter hikes don't go into longer Trails
you know you'll see everything and I think you'll really enjoy it well we hope you liked this video
on Canyonlands stay tuned for the other videos in the series we're going to recap arches Capitol
Reef Bryce and Zion we loved all of them some more than others and we'll see you next time bye
super nice
this view is super nice
Garrett will get close to the edge I will not
so if he ever is found on the side of a mountain he fell I couldn't get close enough to push him