From Zion we drove down through the Kaibab National Forest and into Grand Canyon National Park, South Rim.
Here are our first views of the canyon.
We hiked part of the Bright Angel trail our first day. You can see the trail out in the distance.
On the second day we hiked the South Kaibab Trail out to Skeleton Point. 6 miles 2,060ft descent.
Storm started to roll in.
Switchbacks galore.
Rain coming down. The temperature dropped from 60's to 40's in a matter of hours and it actually began to hail on us just as we were getting to the end of our climb up out of the canyon.
We did the Hermits Road bus route the second part of the day and stopped at each one of the rest stops.
Cloud cover in the canyon.
Day 7: Phoenix
We had a day in between the Grand Canyon and Sedona so we decided to check out Phoenix. We wanted to try and take a scenic route and avoid the highways and we definitely got that.
From Williams we got onto S Perkinsville Rd/CO Rd 73 which runs through the Kaibab National Forest and the Prescott National Forest and took it all the way to Jerome. We had no idea it turned into an unimproved road some miles into it. Luckily the rental Camry was tougher than it looked and we made it through with just some minor desert pin striping.
Some pin stripping from passing an SUV on a tight turn, most of which wiped off.
Once we got to Phoenix, we checked out the Heard Museum which had some cool Native American artwork.
After the museum we hit up Honey Bear's BBQ which had amazing BBQ sauce. You don't need no teeth to eat their meat.
We went out Phoenix South Mountain Park after that. It offered a great view of Phoenix and giant cacti.
The next day on our way up to Sedona, we stopped by Montezuma Castle National Monument.
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