Dixie national forrest review
Leaving Cedar Breakes national Monument with the target Bryce Canyon I am passing the Dixie national forest. To give you an idea of it I am writing this Dixie national forest review. After Cedars Breakes the landscape surrounding the roads did not change a lot. The landscape consists of forests, meadows and sometimes small beautiful looking wooden houses.
If you want to get to know a bit more about geographic aspects and history of the park please see this link.
The trees are not only pine trees but also birch trees making it a beautiful combination. I am currently in a thunder storm and it rains a lot, however the sun manages to shine every few minutes resuting in beautiful rainbows. The road descends steadily but is in good quality. Switch from ATG to manual shifts to prevent your breaks from overheating. Shift down and it should not be a problem, at least my Jeep Cherokee performs pretty well here in the Dixie national forest.
Very interesting are Buffalo farms which you sometimes see on the right and left of the road when driving through Dixie national forest. You will also encounter lava from ancient volcano explosions. Be careful as I experienced 2 deers crossing the street. Nonetheless, Cedar Breakes was a lot more interesting than Dixie national forest. My car used around 1 gallon to drive through the entire park because of steady descendings. For an European Dixie is nothing very special, the only thing would be the lava, forest and altitude combination.
A small but very interesting region of Dixie National park is the so called red canyon. It is around 15 miles in front of the entrance to Bryce but already gives a short preview of Bryce's landscape
To consider all points I think that if you saw other national parks such as Zion before then Dixie national forest will seem a little bit boring. My next writing will be a Bryce Canyon review. My rating: 7/10
If you want to get to know a bit more about geographic aspects and history of the park please see this link.
The trees are not only pine trees but also birch trees making it a beautiful combination. I am currently in a thunder storm and it rains a lot, however the sun manages to shine every few minutes resuting in beautiful rainbows. The road descends steadily but is in good quality. Switch from ATG to manual shifts to prevent your breaks from overheating. Shift down and it should not be a problem, at least my Jeep Cherokee performs pretty well here in the Dixie national forest.
Very interesting are Buffalo farms which you sometimes see on the right and left of the road when driving through Dixie national forest. You will also encounter lava from ancient volcano explosions. Be careful as I experienced 2 deers crossing the street. Nonetheless, Cedar Breakes was a lot more interesting than Dixie national forest. My car used around 1 gallon to drive through the entire park because of steady descendings. For an European Dixie is nothing very special, the only thing would be the lava, forest and altitude combination.
A small but very interesting region of Dixie National park is the so called red canyon. It is around 15 miles in front of the entrance to Bryce but already gives a short preview of Bryce's landscape
To consider all points I think that if you saw other national parks such as Zion before then Dixie national forest will seem a little bit boring. My next writing will be a Bryce Canyon review. My rating: 7/10
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