4-Day Utah & Arizona Road Trip

Day one could look different depending on whether you are driving or flying in. We drove in and got in late, so we spent our time finding a good dispersed camping site to set up for the night.

Luckily, we won the lottery for Angels Landing, so we spent our first full day getting into Zion National Park and taking on Angels Landing, which was about a five-mile round-trip hike. An optional afternoon/sunset hike after Angels Landing would be the Canyon Overlook, which is about one mile round trip. If Angels Landing is not an option due to the lottery for the permit, you should check out the East Mesa Trail to the Observation Point, which is about seven miles round trip.

We woke up, packed up our campsite, and headed out for Kanarraville for a late-morning hike at Kanarraville Falls, which was four miles round trip. This hike did require you to grab a permit for a small fee. Please wear waterproof socks/hiking boots and have a change of clothes if you plan to do this hike because you will get wet!

We left straight for Moab after we finished this hike, but if you wanted to, you could stop at Red Hill Hot Springs for some recovery in a natural hot spring. The drive was about five hours depending on departure location and stops.

Have a slow breakfast this morning either at your hotel or in town, and then head off to the meetup spot for the Moab Canyon Swing—make sure to buy tickets for this in advance. I had a great time filming my friend do this jump, but I was too scared to do it myself! We did drive our own vehicle up to the jump spot, but I highly recommend just paying the extra fee for the shuttle because it was a full off-road experience.

The guys who run this jump are so cool, and it was awesome to watch everyone do their jumps. When we went, the first guy who jumped was a 77-year-old who literally dived into the canyon! After talking to the guys running it, we found out that Benson Boone had done the same jump a week before us. Later that day, we found some awesome rock-climbing routes that we spent the rest of the afternoon climbing.

This is optional, but we were heading home to San Diego after this, so we decided to spend an extra night in Flagstaff, Arizona, on the way home. We spent the evening playing pool and having some beers. In the morning, we stopped and had some breakfast at a small coffee shop in Sedona.