Checking out good spots for Family Camp Fun!

Since we can't go to our planned Family Camp location at the beach in California this year, we are staying local and  just sleeping at home/eating breakfast every day and then getting together for fun activities during the day on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  Yesterday we went to find some nearby hikes that we could possibly take on our day at a cabin in Kolob.  And we also just stopped by at some cool spots we just wanted to check out for ourselves.  

We started at Virgin Falls Park and it was so beautiful that I almost wanted to just stay there and play in the water and forget the rest! 

Next we went up Kolob Terrace Road and stopped of by an old bridge we had played in the water under in the past.  We explored the area a bit more just for the fun of it and enjoyed seeing some beautiful things there.

Then we went to Cave Valley and hiked to the pictograph cave.  In route we did see a little rattlesnake who was just to busy going somewhere to rattle or hardly even be bothered by us.  It did freak me out so much that I was too slow to take his picture - he had already hidden in a bush by then.  It left me wanting to watch my step pretty close afterwards.

After that we took the Northgate Peaks hike which is one of my favorite little hikes.  It's only 4.2 miles and goes through a lovely forest and ends in some magnificent Zion views at the end.  It was a perfect weather day for all of the places we went.  And it was just enough mileage wise for hiking.  We live in such a beautiful area!