14 of 22 – 2024 Fall Trip West Series. 10/2/24 Wednesday. The kids arrive today! Deanne rented a house in Hurricane and her kids and our kids would arrive this evening, all staying at the house. Joey & Lauren, Jackie & Eric drove in from Kansas in Deanne’s brand new minivan. Nathan, Lizzy & David flew into Los Vegas from Indianapolis. They rented a car in Los Vegas and drove up to Hurricane after stopping for a tour of Hoover Dam and Valley of Fire State Park. In the morning we did some grocery shopping to stock up the house. Then we went for a drive to see some of Zion NP before the kids arrived.

We drove from Hurricane up to Zion NP south entrance and on through the park toward the east entrance on Highway 9 known as the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway. The east entrance has tunnels that RV’s don’t fit through (they do but just barely, if you pay a fee to block oncoming traffic so you can drive down the middle of the road) so we hadn’t come through that way when we came to Hurricane. The tunnel was built by the CCC during the depression