Kolob Terrace can be reached by hiking from the bottom of Zion Canyon to the West Rim, but there’s an easier way. We drove up the Kolob Terrace Road out of Virgin. We stopped to find a few geocaches since some of the road is outside the national park. Just beyond the Hop Valley trailhead is a wide spot in the road for parking a couple of cars and a use-trail that leads north to some interesting sandstone formations. We spent some time playing around out there.
Sculpted sandstone
Janet, Elizabeth, Carolyn
The tower
After this we drove farther north to Lava Point, an interesting lookout perched on an old lava flow. We spent some time checking out the basalt columns. Few of them seemed to be the nice, regular hexagonal type seen at Devil’s Postpile. The West Rim trailhead was nearby and a 14 mile hike would take you past Angel’s Landing to The Grotto at the canyon floor.
Finally, we arrived at Kolob Resevoir, where the girls played in the sand next to a little stream while Dan and I tried to find some nearby geocaches.
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