This fall we decided to travel south to Arizona by car, for the first time in 5 years. We planned a 5-day trip to cover the ~2,900 km to our final destination in Scottsdale, AZ. We made 2-two night stops, the first at Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the second at St. George, Utah. I wrote about our stops at these two locations in my prior two posts.
In addition to the photographs I was able to get at Jackson and St. George, I was also fortunate to get a few more in the course of our drive. I’ve prepared a slideshow including some of the more memorable pictures taken along the way. I’ve managed to include shots from each of the province/states that we traversed in the course of our journey: Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Arizona. I took some of the pictures with my DSLR camera and others with an iPhone. We stopped to take some of them; others were taken “on the fly” through the car window.
The scenery along the way was magnificent. We enjoyed the prairies of southern Alberta in the early morning light, followed by the “Big Sky” plains of Montana on our way to Jackson. Leaving Jackson, our path followed the scenic canyon of the Snake River south to Interstate 80, where we turned west toward Salt Lake City. The mountains along the highway were decorated with brilliant autumn colours, which only got better as we bypassed Salt Lake City to the east. The roads from Park City to Provo offered fall colours at their peak, in addition to the rugged beauty of the Wasatch Mountain Range. We had pretty much overdosed on scenery by the time we re-joined Interstate 15 at Provo for the continuation of our day’s travel to St. George. After spending an enjoyable day in St. George, we departed early on Saturday for the final leg of our trip. We got through Las Vegas at sunrise and turned eastward toward Scottsdale. I was intrigued by the brilliant skies over the Mojave Desert, as we approached Kingman, AZ. The last scenic treat was a section of US 93, called the Joshua Tree Parkway, named for the bordering forest of Joshua Trees.
I’ve included glimpses of all these scenes (in no particular order) in the following slideshow. Click on the right side of the images to advance; on the left to reverse direction.
