Provo, UT

Today we went to Rock Canyon. We haven’t been since last summer, and I’d almost forgotten how beautiful it is. There aren’t too many things you need to know if you’re going to go: basically, wear good shoes, and bring water and your camera. I took tons of gorgeous pictures—in fact, I pretty much drove Mike crazy because I stopped so much. And to be honest, I think the pictures are going to have to do most of the talking in this post.

Rock Canyon is just up N Temple Dr, the street off 900 E that goes past the north side of the Provo LDS temple. There’s a parking lot at the bottom of the canyon, and then there are a few different paths you can take. There are two that go around the sides of the mountain, and we took the one through the actual canyon.

There’s about a twenty minute walk before you get to the canyon, and there’s no shade up that path, so it’s pretty hot during the day. Once you get into the canyon, there are lots of trees that shade the path, so it feels really good even when it’s ridiculously hot everywhere else. Like I said, though, make sure you take water—I hate to admit it, but Mike and I left ours in the car, and we were just about dying before we made it to the shade. Also, apparently there’s a mountain stream farther up where you can get water from a fountain, but we didn’t make it that far.

Anyway, it’s a great walk once you’re up there, and we plan to go back soon.