Bryce Canyon is a spectacular place that everyone should visit. I’ve only ever been in either the early spring or later winter so I’ve been lucky to have been there when there was beautiful white snow that accentuated the red, orange, and yellows of the rocks that pop with the green foliage. It’s a rainbow of a destination but also as Ebenezer Bryce so eloquently put it, it’s “one helluva place to lose a cow.”

My advice to everyone visiting Bryce is to start the day with a hike through the Hoodoos on the Navajo Loop / Queens Garden Trail, then drive all the way up to the top of the 18 mile one-way Highway 63 Bryce Canyon Scenic Drive and start your adventure at Rainbow Point and Yovimpa Point. They offer spectacular views of hoodoos, the surrounding Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Navajo Mountain, the Blues, and the rest of the National Park as you gaze north & east. After those viewpoints, head down the road towards the Visitor Center making sure to stop at every single, and I mean every single viewpoint before you end the day with a sunset at the aptly named Sunset Point right back where you started.

Black Birch Canyon, Ponderosa Canyon, Agua Canyon, and Natural Bridge lookout points are all breathtaking and worth the stop. Especially Natural Bridge lookout. It not only has the namesake natural bridge but also a hoodoo in the shape of the Olympic Torch! I grew up in Atlanta and remember driving by the torch that Muhammad Ali lit all those years ago.

Next up you have Fairview Point before driving a good bit and heading towards the amazing Bryce Point. Bryce Point is a must see and depending on the time of day, it is quite the Rainbow.

Lastly, there’s Inspiration, Sunset, and Sunrise Points and they’re all truly inspirational and best viewed at any dang time of day.