Confluence Park - a nice place for a walk

Paul and I didn't have time to do the training hike we had planned for Friday, so instead we checked out the new Confluence Park between LaVerkin and Toquerville.  It is named for the confluence of the Virgin River and LaVerkin and Ash Creeks.  It has several trails, some of them still in the developmental stage.  We walked the whole Confluence Trail.  It takes you to the Virgin River and then follows it along for quite a while.  There were several historic buildings along the way along with some cool lava formations. There used to be a farming operation down there as well as a hydro electric plant.  We saw some deer too. We also came across a great spot along the river with a rope swing that I would like to try out some time.  We saw some boys having a Friday night camp out along the river.  It looked like lots of fun.  They had their tent set up and a fire going and were playing in the river.  Wished I was doing the same thing!  We also did most of the LaVerkin Trail, but part of it was still to brushy to find and it got dark before we could do the whole distance of the unbrushy part. We'll have to get back out there another day. It was a fun place to check out.

We saw an old dairy barn, granary  hydro electric plant, beaver eaten trees, lava caves and that great rope swing by at the river.  Looks like quite a few fun places to play in the river down there.  

We saw this little guy too.