Kodachrome Basin State Park - Day 7

On Sunday, we decided to just take a drive down the scenic UT-12 through a portion of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.  We wanted to stop by the Visitor Center in Escalante. It was about an hour drive there, and it was, indeed, scenic.

We did stop at the Escalante Interagency Visitor Center in Escalante.  It was pretty small, but we were able to get our National Park Passports stamped. 

We decided to stop at the Visitor Center in Cannonville, as well.  That visitor center was on the same road as the road into Kodachrome Basin State Park.  Our neighbor at the campground had mentioned it and said how much he enjoyed it and how beautiful it was, so we thought "why not?"  It was only about 8 miles up that road, and it only cost $8 to get into the park (per car).  The minute we drove in, we knew we had made a good decision.  It was really cloudy, and threatening to rain, and we were kind of afraid we were going to get rained on, but we didn't.  We spent about 2 1/2 hours here.  We could have spent a lot more time here, but we were all tired from the day before.  

I think we need to come back to Utah sometime, and spend more time.  I need more time in the National Parks, and it seems that there are some wonderful State Parks, as well.  

Side note on this - camping at Kodachrome State Park is $30 a night for full hookups.  Definitely need to come back and stay there sometime.

Next stop - Torrey, Utah.