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Back in 2018<\/strong>, I stayed in the town of Springdale<\/a>, the gateway community to the entrance of Zion National Park. It was this trip that solidified a future need to stay inside the park itself the next time around. At the end of 2019 I finalized my booking at the Zion Lodge<\/a>, securing a cabin for Thanksgiving week 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Then the Pandemic struck, priorities shifted, and plans became forgotten and put into cobwebbed recesses of the mind. October rolls around, and a reminder about my reservation shows up in my in box. How would Covid affect my time in Zion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For starters<\/strong>, the restaurant was closed for in person dining, which didn’t bother me, but their pick up\/take out menu was sorely lacking for options. My cabin didn’t have a kitchen area, and I didn’t want to leave the park repeatedly to go out to eat, so I was forced to choose the same meal over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lodge was jam packed with people. I thought that a pandemic would cause the park to be less crowded, but boy was I wrong. I turned into a hermit crab so that once I arrived in SLC to see family for Thanksgiving they didn’t need to worry about me being a virus spreader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also had plans to hike the Narrows,<\/strong> but scratched that off my “to do” list as well. WAY too many people. So for three days inside the park, I hiked lesser known trails down by the Virgin river, where only the deer reside. I ride my bike from one end of the canyon to the other, which is a great way to experience the park, especially when the only other vehicles allowed in on the park road are the Zion shuttle buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I find the peace and comfort that I was hoping for, although it wasn’t from the adventures I was hoping to do while here this time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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