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Zion — Mount Carmel Highway

Motorcycle riding on the Zion - Mount Carmel Highway

Zion — Mount Carmel High­way — © Copy­right 2012 by William Beem

Ride Through the Moun­tains of Zion National Park

One of the ben­e­fits of a rel­a­tively warm win­ter this year is that this road isn’t cov­ered with snow & ice. Sadly, I didn’t have my motor­cy­cle on this trip. Then again, I wouldn’t have this photo if I had rid­den that day, so it’s all good.

Dur­ing my first stay at Zion National Park, I asked some of the locals in Spring­dale about the weather and the best time of year to visit. They told me that Zion only has two kinds of weather:

  • Too damn hot!
  • Too damn cold!

That aside, most folks agreed that Sep­tem­ber was an ideal time to visit. It turns out that Feb­ru­ary wasn’t so bad when it’s a warm win­ter, too.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/andrea.burlingame.12 Andrea Burlingame

    Gor­geous shot! I am from Port­land, Ore­gon and will be rid­ing in Zion this com­ing weekend!

    • http://www.orlandolocal.com William Beem

      Thanks, and have fun! Last time I took a motor­cy­cle to Utah in April, a bliz­zard descended on me as I tried to ride from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas.