Showing posts with label Cascade Falls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cascade Falls. Show all posts

Strawberry Point: Better than Cedar Breaks NM


We spent a weekend up at Duck Creek with the fam from northern Utah to show them how much better this half of the state is. Renting a cabin in Duck Creek was a great idea.



Going on the trails in the middle of monsoon season was not. It's been raining every day for the past three weeks. Earlier in the day before we first went up, they closed SR-14 for flooding and debris in the road down the canyon. So what do we do when we first get up to the mountain? Get in the 4Runner and find the nearest trail. We went through a few puddles no problem until we see it.

This massive, eight foot long puddle that covered the entire trail across. Trekker backed up a few feet and gunned it. We drove through the puddle and started going down, and down, and down until we were under water to our windows. He never released the gas pedal, which helped us slowly and finally climb back up the other side. There's that minute it stops being fun and it turns into 'shit just got real' and it happened in the middle of the forest outside of Duck Creek when I thought we lost Trekker's car to the monsoonal rainstorm.



The views outside from Cascade Fall's Cave

This poor kid couldn't take another step haha


Anyway, Cedar Mountain is a good time.

But onto my favorite part. Strawberry Point is on the south side of Cedar Mountain, off a rough road at the edge of the Markagunt Plateau. I honestly think it's more impressive than it's western counterpart Cedar Breaks National Monument. The views down into Hog's Heaven and Zion Canyon are amazing, and I could spend all day there.









Hancock Peak

Hancock Peak is more of a knoll at the top of Cedar Mountain. I did this hike back in 2014 with a friend and the entire hike was in a thick ...