Wow!!
Okay so we arrived in Bryce at about 7:30 am after an early start. We decide to go to some lookouts until the info centre opens.
Inspiration Point is a surprisingly good first impression. Then sunset point for breakfast
At the info centre we decide to do the figure 8 loop and then some of the Fairyland Trail, at least as far as the Tower Bridge, maybe a little further based on the ranger’s recommendation
Inspiration point:
The park is full of hoodoos. They are funny shaped spikes or towers of rock formed when water seeps into cracks in the rock, then freezes in cold temperatures, which cracks the rock. As the water melts and subsequent rains flows the cracks open further and the debris is carried away. Stronger and more balanced rocks stay upright, others fall and turn to clay. They remaining rocks are these hoodoos.
The figure 8 track is two loops combined: the Peekaboo Loop and the Queens Loop. If you wanted to shorten the walk, my recommendation would be to skip the Queens Loop.
There are these fun switchbacks on the way down to the two loops that are a lot of fun. And then the Peekaboo Loop has lots of ups and downs going around hoodoos from every angle, and looking through windows too.
Queens just has a hoodoo that looks like Queen Victoria, funny but not much else to see otherwise.
In the afternoon we walk some of the Fairylands trail.
It’s a lot more hoodoo sparse but offers better views of the valley below. The tower bridge looks like Tower Bridge, which is neat, but the larger views are the best part of this trail.
We finish the day with a drive to some more lookouts
This park is one of the more curious places I’ve been. It’s just a whole lot of fun to be in and around the hoodoos, they have a kind of zany energy.