Tour de N’Utah, Day 6, Zion National Park, 30 miles, 1,266 feet elevation | Gooseberry Mesa

Riding Stats

Accommodations

Just a 30 mile gravel ride today that started about an hour outside of the national park on and around Gooseberry Mesa.

We found the route on the Gravel Bike Race website that hosts an annual gravel race, downloaded the gpx file and just went with it. There was some technical riding on one end with open canyon country on the other and both were 🤙🏻

Ya never know what you’re going to get. The directions said turn left on Main Street but Main Street was nothing but a dirt road. 🤣

The ride did NOT disappoint and we had a little bit of everything as far as road surface; gravel, baby head rocks, small boulders, ruts, deep sand, lots of washboard and mucho cattle guards. As usual the afternoon thunderboomers kept us at the ready.

There were views of Zion National Park and Kolob Canyon and the second half took us through cowboy country and some of the best canyon scenery at 12 mph.

We rode south towards the Arizona border and then made our way back to the car.

For dinner it was back to Zion Canyon Brewery because I mean why end a good thing? The food has been tasty, service 💯 and we sit right by the Virgin River each night recapping our day, planning for the next and estimating how old the ancient Cottonwood trees are along the river.

We got a 20% “locals discount” since we’re basically regulars now this being our third night in a row.🫣

Tomorrow we head to Nevada for our 49th state with a bike cruise through Valley of Fire State Park and our first proper showers in a week!

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