Zion National Park

Day 1: We arrived in Vegas around lunchtime, grabbed our bags, rented our car and got the hell out of dodge. The sooner we escaped the blue-hair club, the better. We were headed to Utah and stop #1: Zion National Park. We had rented a large cabin east of Zion National Park with an adjacent buffalo ranch - something to wake up to, I suppose. We were guaranteed to see buffalo - little did we know this meant almost spitting distance from the front porch. Besides the parks (state and national), there is little to do in the area.

We rented the large cabin which slept 11 at the Zion Mountain Resort (http://www.zionmountainresort.com/) just east of Zion National Park. They offer horseback riding in the area as a diversion to the hikes in the park and surrounding areas. The cabins were set on the edge of a large open field and offered incredible sunsets facing west over the park.