2025 Road Trip – Ruby’s Inn RV Park & Campground – Bryce Canyon City, UT – 6/3 – 6/5

We departed from Zion River Resort at 10:30AM MDT and headed Northeast to Ruby’s Inn, RV Park & Campground in Bryce Canyon City, UT (135 miles) at 7,664′ in elevation. We stopped in Cedar City, UT at Home Depot (for a replacement GFCI outlet in our bathroom) and Walmart for supplies. After picking up our GFCI outlet at Home Depot, I dropped Beth off at the door of the nearby Walmart and went off and parked, once again, in the back with all of the other Class B & C motorhomes (a dozen or so). After parking, I looked to my right and saw the entrance to an Applebee’s which I considered an omen (we haven’t had a sit down meal out since May 10th). After shopping, we went into Applebee’s and had the 2 for $25 lunch (yummy!) and the leftovers for supper. We stopped to top off our fuel before heading back into the mountains at the TA in Parowan, UT where we could see snow capped mountains in the distance.

As we got closer to Bryce Canyon, we passed through Red Canyon in Dixie National Forest and stopped a couple of times to take some pictures.

We arrived at Ruby’s Inn RV Park & Campground at 3:35PM MDT. This is a fairly large and very well organized campground. They had three check-in clerks and they were all very helpful and busy while we were checking-in. We found out from them that Bryce Canyon National Park does not allow vehicles to enter the park between 8AM – 8PM (which was a surprise to us). Fortunately, there is a National Park shuttle stop just across the street from the entrance to the campground.

We spent the first day after arrival in the camper due to quite a bit of rain. The rain started in the middle of the night of arrival and was the hardest rain we’ve heard in this camper. We were concerned that there was hail, but apparently not. We are glad we reserved three nights. On the final day there was rain predicted, but we went on into the National Park, via the National Park Service (NPS) Shuttle, and only experienced a few sprinkles that only occurred while on the NPS Shuttle (between stops). We took the NPS Shuttle straight to the furthest stop (#8 at Bryce Point). We then took it to the next stop (#9 Inspiration Point). We climbed straight to the “Upper Inspiration Viewpoint” (about 1/4 mile) with many stops along the way, to ingest oxygen, on our way to 8,300′ in elevation. It was worth the trip and the views were incredible. From there we continued on to Stop #11, Sunset Point, which was the most crowded (probably because you could see everything without traveling far from the parking lot). From there we continued on to Stop #12 at the Lodge. We stopped there because they had a gift shop and we didn’t want to have to come back to it if the Visitor Center didn’t have the trinkets we were after. They did not have the required trinkets so we hopped the next shuttle to Stop #14 at the Visitor Center. We quickly found our trinkets (NPS coins for the grandchildren) and hopped the shuttle to the main shuttle station (close to Ruby’s Inn) and ate a delicious late lunch at the Inn.