Rock Shops and Red Canyon.

Driving north on the back route from Kanab, UT toward Bryce Canyon there is a little section of road that has about five rock shops.  Of course we stopped, but we only visited three.   Piles of rocks by the pound, fossils, polished, cut.....We bought some big hunks of obsidian for Leland and Greg to make arrow heads.  Anna and I were limited in the interests of gas mileage.
We ended up in Red Canyon.   Lots of rock hounding, hiking and reading too.

We had heard about Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, but with the dogs we are very limited as to where we can go in national parks and the weather was getting too hot to be able to leave them in the truck- so we have been going to state parks and National Forests which are really cool too- just not famous.