On the Road Again! Here is Old Town Cottonwood, looking as empty as I have ever seen it in the daytime!
We took I17 to Flagstaff, and then US89 to Kanab, UT. We could have followed US89 all the way home, except for the several mountain passes and ranges that are still snowed in.
This San Francisco Peaks.
Flagstaff is at the base.
We got behind a truck while we were driving though a part of Flagstaff. Interesting signage! Trvth in Advertising!
Once you cross the summit going South on US89 by Flagstaff (which is at 7000ft!) it is a long and fairly gentle decline to about 4000ft…90 or 100 miles later! You can get pretty good mileage, if the wind isn’t blowing. It was.
Towards the bottom of the decline is where some read rock ridges start.
Eventually you come to the turn to Page, AZ. Either way gets you to Kanab, but the non-Page route is a narrow, windy snow pack mountain road. It does have the access road to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and it should open in late May. After the snow melts a bit.
That road runs along the bottom of those cliffs you see, named the Vermillion Cliffs.
The highway to Page runs up a cliff side, yielding the views above. At the top you go through a cut.
This is the view near Page. The colors and shadows on the rocks is spectacular!
Here is the bridge over the Colorado River at the Glen Canyon Dam, which created Lake Powell.
Somewhere further down the road we hit a snow shower with this plucky fellow riding the other way.
Just a little road bored…errr…artistic photos! from the highway.
Colorado City in the distance, and not quite so distance!
The last long hill before Hurricane, UT, where the St. George KOA is.
Today was about 350 miles, and while it is the shortest day, with the best scenery, it was also all non-Interstate after Flagstaff. It is 100 miles longer going through Kingman on the Interstate, and you have to drive through Las Vegas, too. The freeways in Las Vegas are bad enough without pulling a trailer! Tomorrow it is about 450 miles to Pocatello, all I15. The it is 410 miles to home!
~Curtis formerly in /-\rizon/-\, currently in Utah! {!-{>
Well, 49 years later (whenever the 18th of March, 2023 is!) Toots got to go to the same Eagle Recognition!
