Bryce Canyon National Park contains some of the earth's most colorful rocks which have been sculpted into pillars called "hoodoos". Iron oxides give red, yellow and brown tints to the limestone, while manganese oxides lend a lavender hue. Leaving Capital Reef National Park, we drove 120 miles to the park through beautiful areas of Aspen trees whose leaves had turned to gold. Once in Bryce, we hiked into the canyon along the Navajo and Queen's Garden Loops.

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Travelling down Highway 12	The Aspen leaves had turned to gold
Sunset Point Overlook	Trail below Sunset Point	Starting down the Navajo Loop Trail
Fred and Billie coming down the Navajo Loop Trail	Wall Street Section of Navajo Loop Trail	Wall Street
	Bottom of Wall Street	A Tree grows in the middle of the canyon walls
Lower Navajo Loop Trail
Hikers at the bottom of the canyon	Garden full of cairns	Cairns even seem to grow on trees!
Balanced Rocks	Looks like a howling dog!
We joined up with the Queens Garden Loop	Queen Victoria sits on her throne at upper right	Close up of Queen Victoria Hoodoo
	Taking a rest among the hoodoos of the Queen's Garden
Fred on the trail		Climbing back up to the rim
The hike ended at Sunrise Point Overlook

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