Fall Break 2025 - St. George Day 2 - Hiking & Exploring

We got so lucky with the weather in St. George over Fall Break.  It was chilly in the morning and then warmed up nicely.  It was perfect weather to go hiking in the morning and not get too hot.  We started with our hoodies on and then quickly took them off.  

We started our adventure this first morning by going by my Grandpa Willis's house.  We drove by the front and then we drove down around from his house and parked so that we could walk behind the houses and see the lava rocks.  Well, we walked down behind his house (and took a picture) but then we didn't really get to the lava rocks.  I remember us hiking all around there as a kid, but I didn't know how to get to those trails.  So, we decided to go to a stake park and do real hiking. 

The park wasn't too far away, and it was nice to have a map to tell us where to go and which trails would be good for us all.   

These huge red rocks were so fun to climb all over.  We just let the kids go pretty much wherever they wanted and explore the land.  These hills were easy to climb, and I wasn't too worried about the kids falling off a cliff.  

We saw that they had lava tunnels, so we hiked in to go check them out.  Once we got to the big one, we found out it was just a large hole in the ground that went down really far, and it was all dark.  You would definitely need to have climbing gear and skills to go down into tunnel, so I just took Tony's picture by the big hole.

We then went on more hikes all around the park.  We saw a large turtle rock thing, and we climbed more big hills and rocks.  We also stopped by the visitor's center and got a Jr. Ranger badge for that park.  It was a lot of fun, and we all really liked that state park.