Utaventure

October is a great month to enjoy Utah. It's not that hot anymore and you get treated with the most vibrant fall colours you'll ever see! Perfect hiking time! I'm not going to harass you with all the hikes that we did during that month, because we do a lot of hiking around here whenever the weather permits. I'll just harass you with my favourite one of that month 😬,   Lake Blanche Trail. I highly recommend this hike when you're in the Salt Lake area, although with its 2746ft (837m) elevation gain over 3,4 miles (5,5km) it might be hard for those out of shape ... an out of shape reviewer on 'Alltrails', the app I mentioned in my previous post ( Dead horse point SP & Canyonlands NP ), stated "... to say that this trail was hard doesn't begin to hint the hell unleashed on me the day I hiked it." 😂  The trail climbs through beautiful canyon scenery to a photogenic alpine basin, dug out by a glacier during the last ice age, at 8920ft. 

A s I said in my previous post, we combined Arches NP (National Park) with Dead Horse  Point SP (State Park) & Canyonlands NP. I mean, it's all so close together, that you just  háve to visit all of them. But again, as we only had 2 days, it was going to be limited to a sampler. Dead Horse Point State Park The day after Arches NP, we drove to Dead Horse Point early in the morning. As it is a State Park and not a National Park, we couldn't use our annual pass for this one (at that moment we didn't have a annual pass for the SPs yet). However, we were so early that there was nobody yet to collect the $10 entrance fee. Although we were the only ones, as  good housekeepers,  we put the fee in a box ...  😇.  We just drove to the Dead Horse Point overlook point at the end of the paved route in the park. This main overlook point sits at 6000 feet above sea level with the Colorado river winding 2000 feet below.  The legend   This point provided a natural round-up