By Michael Lanza
Bryce Canyon’s Navajo Loop/Queens Backyard Loop is a well-liked path for good motive, with fixed views of hoodoos—the multi-colored, limestone, sandstone, and mudstone spires that appear like big, melting candles, together with the well-known formation referred to as Thor’s Hammer. However as soon as turning onto the Peek-a-Boo Loop, you lose the crowds—and uncover the scenic coronary heart of Bryce Canyon whereas mountain climbing under the Wall of Home windows and row after row of towers in fluorescent shades of purple and orange.
See the photograph gallery under for quite a few photos from that six-mile dayhike combining Bryce Canyon’s Navajo Loop/Queens Backyard Loop and Peek-a-Boo Loop. The path system in Bryce lets you shorten the six-mile hike by a few mile by combining solely the Navajo and Peek-a-Boo loops.
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Spring and fall are the prime seasons for mountain climbing within the desert Southwest and Bryce Canyon’s trails lie at over 7,000 toes and a few as much as 9,000 toes, so mountain climbing right here is usually cooler than locations like Zion Canyon.
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