Wall Street

For our final full day in Zion we knew we had to do the Narrows hike. We stopped at the Zion Adventure Company to get some waterproof footwear and walking sticks and then we were back on the bus. The park was much more crowded today since it was Memorial Day weekend so it took longer to get a shuttle out of the visitor center. Once we were on our way we noticed that everyone seemed to be staying on the bus. The Narrows hike is at the last stop and that's where everyone was headed.


First though you need to walk down the river walk which is an easy mile hike. Once at the end you just hop in the river and keep going! The water was a surprisingly warm 58 and it only got as high as waist deep a couple of times. The rest of the hike was just knee deep and the current was fairly weak too. We hiked the two miles up canyon to the Orderville fork which is really where Wall Street, the narrowest part of the canyon, begins. When I hiked here last time I turned back before this section so it was nice to make it this time. We continued on through Wall Street where the canyon is only about 20ft wide all the way to where it begins to open back up. At that point we had been hiking for about 3hrs and we were both having knee issues so we decided we should turn back since we had to hike all the way back out. It was nice being much further into the canyon since the crowds had thinned out considerably.

The hike back out went much faster since we were taking fewer pictures and we didn't have to fight the current. Then it was just the last mile of the river walk to get back to the shuttle.

We went to Oscar's for dinner since they were rumored to have good burgers and we were not disappointed. These were life changing good burgers :-) Danielle's had pastrami and mine was loaded with bacon, cheese and all the usual fixings. Since we ate late we thought we had just missed the last shuttle in town so we started walking back to the hotel. It turns out there was one more shuttle so we could have gotten a ride but after about 8 miles of hiking the walk through town was pretty easy. We both crashed pretty quickly with plans for an easier day.