Hal & Diane Rosen Travels: Grosvenor Arch and Kodachrome State Park

Our visit to these two landmarks was due to a bit of serendipity. Our plan was to spend the previous night in a hotel in Escalante and see some sights there, but it turned out that the hotel we reserved was in Cannonville, 38 miles past Escalante. We didn't want to spend time driving back so we discovered the Grosvenor Arch and Kodachrome State Park and had a great day!

Grosvenor Arch - The Arch is located about 11 miles past Kodachrome State Park and it is well worth the drive to see it. The pictures below do not fully give one a feeling of the majesty of this arch. It is golden in color, with white, grey and pink mixed in. It is actually a double arch with a small arch on the left.

A view from the parking lot.

Various views of the arch.

Kodachrome State Park - the Park received it's name because it was part of an expedition done by National Geographic Magazine that was sponsored by the Kodak company. We had never heard of it before our visit. It has a lot of camping facilities and would be a great place to stay.

To the right is Chimney Rock. Behind it is the rock formation shown above.

On the trail to Shakespeare Arch.

A couple of views of Shakespeare Arch.

Various views in the Park.

An example of the contrast in colors.

This was one of Diane's favorite rock formations to photograph - we have about 25 photos of this pillar from different angles! To us this looked like two mythological characters standing with their arms around each other - the man is on the left and his wife on the right.

This one on the right looked like a lizard that had climbed up on the backbone of a red rock!