This swimming hole is in the town of Virgin. Virgin is on SR-9 a few miles outside of Zion and has this in it.
This creepy bookstore/post office is the setting of a reoccurring nightmare I used to have where I got stabbed to death in there. We went to it once to see if knowing what it actually looked like inside would help. It just made the dreams more accurate. Fortunately, the place we went to today is not nearly so creepy.
Sheep's Bridge is just an old bridge where they used to charge farmers to use it to get sheep across the Virgin River. A little ways up, the gorge widens into a swimming hole.
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Its the little thing in front of the bigger bridge.
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We didn't get lost today for an hour trying to find it. Unlike Florida rivers, we didn't have to worry about running into water moccasins or alligators. There was no flash floods that I always have an irrational fear about. Just floating down the river with Zion in the background. Not a bad day.
Directions: (Exactly 5 miles past the LaVerkin Maverik)
1. Turn right after Desert Garden Estates subdivision on Sheep Bridge Rd. If you make it to the touristy little western town (Fort Zion), you've gone too far.
2. It's .7 miles past the turn off from SR-9. Turn up through this open gate to the parking area.
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