Natural Bridges National Monument - Utah

The next morning we headed up towards Capitol Reef National Park to meet up with our friends Rick and Ann. Around lunch time, we passed by National Bridges National Monument, and decided to take advantage of the opportunity to drop in their to have lunch and to see what this National monument had to offer. We were entertained by a very friend park ranger at the information desk in the visitors center who not only persuaded us it was worthwhile to take the standard one hour driving tour through the monument but shared with us how he preferred to live full time at the National Monument rather than be bothered with having anything to do with life outside the monument. We are sure the park service appreciated having such a dedicated public servant who is quite content to live on premises for 24/7 and help keep an eye on things when other employees would normally head home. At the ranger’s suggestion and approval, we dropped the Big Sky in the visitor’s parking lot so that we could take the scenic loop tour in just our truck.

National Bridges has three large rock bridges spanning the river gorge running through the park. It was both easy and pleasant to take the one hour scenic loop tour and to stop at the three overlooks so that we could see all three of these natural bridges with minimal effort.