Utah!

We entered Utah coming in from northern Arizona -- 

It really looked stormy as we passed the "Welcome to Utah" sign! We ended up getting a few drops on our windshield, but not a big rainstorm.

 

We headed mostly west and a little southwest as we headed toward Kanab, Utah.

We had visited this area back in the spring of 2021...

... but we still enjoy its beauty!

We turned onto route 12 "Scenic Byway 12, All-American Road".

This area is known as Red Canyon...

... for rather obvious reasons!

We just love the red rocks against the blue sky!

We had traveled this road back in 2021 as we stayed outside Bryce Canyon -- so we knew Gracie could fit under this arch!

This was along the area where we stayed back in 2021 -- Tom's Best Spring Road.

We headed past Bryce Canyon...

... still seeing beautiful views...

Beautiful rock structures all around us.

We eventually made it through Cannonville, Utah, and about 7 miles further south from the small town...

... came to the entrance of Kodachrome State Park.

Things to note: 

- Day users of the park need to pay for passes, but that cost is included in the price for overnight camping. In many state parks (other states), you must pay for daily use fees separately from the camping fees -- usually about $10/day. Some states (Wisconsin) require you to pay a separate fee for each motorized vehicle, so, while a truck and trailer would only require one daily fee, a motorhome towing a car requires two daily entry fees to be paid, in addition to the fee for the campsite. Many times, public campgrounds have a pretty reasonable fee for the campsite, but when $10-20/day is added for the daily fee, that really increases the cost of the campsite!

- At this particular campground,  "hook-up sites" have either full hook-ups (electric, water, sewer) or just water/electric. "Standard sites" have no hookups. It seems that $10 more for full hook-ups ($45) is pretty cheap compared to $35 for boondocking (which we just had for free in the Kaibab National Forest). They do have services here -- really nice bath houses, water spigots that boondockers can use to get water, a dishwashing station at the bath house, dumpsters, laundromat, and a camp store -- which, of course, we did not have at the national forest.

The view right in front of us while we were stopped at the entry station of the park...

... driving into the park to get to the campground area.

It is a beautiful park, though signage was a little lacking for us to find our campsite. We ended up driving all the way through the campground loop, much of which was pretty tight for our big class A and towed vehicle. But we eventually found our site and got parked and are finding the campground to be very nice.