Zion National Park Ride & Review

We are here today with veteran and friend Gary. Gary how you doing? Pretty good man. Where are we? We're in Zion National Park. In the great state of Utah. Yep. Did you realize it was going to be this beautiful? I did not. I was looking around a couple corners man I was like what? Also riding with us today is of course my main man Scooter. He's running the back watching my six as you boys would put it. Isn't that right Gary? That's right. All right so uh the nice thing about having Scooter with me you know and having the situation we're doing here which is where we're trailering on the nice days like today where it's in the 50s and 60s he can get out and put down some miles with me. For those of you who do not know we are documenting the 20 best rides in all of America to get on your bike and take a road trip and go visit and to find the 20 best we figure we're going to ride about 50 or 60, rate them, narrow it down, give you our 20 best. So if you have not yet please click that follow or that subscribe button down below. Let's look at some of these beautiful rides here in America together. So for today's ride Gary you are on what motorcycle? My Harley Road King the 2011. 2011 Harley Road King 103. Yep the 103 it gets washed when it rains that's about it. That's it man that's the way it should be and myself today I am taking my 2019 Indian Dark Horse and of course I have now got that upgraded 116 and I can feel it baby especially in these mountains. Communication is huge so today's video you are going to see Gary and I communicating across our helmets. We both have the Senna Momentum helmets. I have the pro with the camera on top so you'll be seeing my visuals and he has the Momentum with the audio so you'll be able to hear him talking to me as he experiences one of our national parks and best rides ever. So Senna thank you very much for the support helping my buddy hooking him up with that helmet and letting us stay connected out here in the beauty. Now enough talk let's uh let's do some riding. Alright Gary we are driving into Zion look at the campground over here to your right. A lot of times what I like to do when I go into these uh national parks and camp for a night um just because there's so many trails and so much to explore uh it's good not to have to run miles and miles back to the hotel. Today was the last as we are staying in the best western right there in Springdale. So we're only two miles from the park entrance but I do like those campgrounds so when you're traveling the country in that open door they'll stay in some of these pretty nice. So when going through the national parks you know it's always important to abide the speed limit, stay on the road, stay on the trail. They work really hard to keep these up and you know we try to show that respect while we're here. I agree speed is cleaner than you found it. That's right so for those who don't know Gary is going to be the veteran that's going to be getting my bus and how excited are you about that Gary? Stoked. You are going to absolutely love it. So the elevations in here go up to about 10,000 feet in places Zion and National Park. See the squiggly lines of what this road is going to look like and take this because that is closed due to a mudslide that would normally bring you over to Bryce Canyon. Dude I would love to rappel down Look at that river. What if it's even up the kayak man it looks kind of lower. Yeah I mean as far as scenic views go Gary you got to be far up there. Unfortunately we're down on the we're running through the canyon instead of up over the mountain which is what I would usually prefer but it's also nice to get the view from down here. Well man from down here dude it's the right and flat fall surface right there bro. So after this we are going to load back up head over to Moab and we are going to ride Moab and even do some side-by-side adventure stuff in Moab. Yeah we can do all this stuff dude we're gonna awesome all of it. Dude the waterfalls right ahead and this is the end my friend they can't uh run the road up that that cliff I guess. Beautiful road in. It was. I wish I could have taken you over the uh the 9 over the 89 there into Bryce Canyon because that my friend is really the stunning ride. Got some snow, waterfall. I thought that was totally a big white rock. That's funny. Look the size all the way around us. I think this looks like a good spot to let the scooter stretch his legs too huh. Good boy. Good boy Rue. Better there than in my backpack. So we are going to bang back to the hotel head up towards Bryce Canyon and see if we can't show you some more cool roads up that way. Once we get back to the hotel I will do a review on this road and I'll also talk about the other road through Zion that I've ridden before because if you come up here those are both roads you're going to want to ride. But for now back to the absolutely beautiful Best Western. Wait till you see where this thing's located. I definitely recommend staying there if you're coming out to Zion National Park. Let's go. So we are back at the hotel Best Western here in Springdale. It is Springdale right Katie? Katie says it's Springdale. Let's give a shout out to Katie here. Katie has been absolutely amazing. She's hooked us up with our stay taking very good care of us. Katie thank you so much for your help. Katie's a little shy but she's great at her job. So we are back at the Best Western. Like I said take a look at where this place is nestled just right outside the park entrance. So let's go right into our review of the road. The 9 was closed down due to a landslide so I did not get to share that with you but I have seen it before. So again I'm going to have to share some of my numbers including that ride because if you do get out here you will be able to you know to ride. First we're gonna start with surface and road conditions and here I have to give you a 10. Zion National Park you are killing it. Your roads are pristine. The curves I'm gonna give you a 7 and only because I know what the curves on 9 look like and they're much cooler than the canyon route that I just took. If I had to judge just the canyon route I probably would have put it at like a 3 or a 4. But because of the highway 9 I'm gonna give the curves a 7. The views again outstanding. I mean where else do you see this type of sheer cliff rock? Maybe a couple other areas but very few areas and not this vibrant in color. The views when you're riding through there I'm giving you a 9, 9, 9, 9 all the way. Attractions I'm gonna give you a 6. The towns around it are small but they're quaint they're fun. There's some really cool souvenir stores things like that. There's stuff to do but it's no major city. The traffic I'm gonna give it a 7 although today the traffic was beautiful and I recommend to you if you're gonna come, come in the off season like I did because the traffic's slow. The temperature's still very good. I think today was in the mid 50s mid 60s. Temperature's great. It was very doable. It was very enjoyable and just a lot less people. And lastly the distance I'm gonna give it a 6 because I think if you do both loops you're gonna be at about 35 to 40 miles. So that's not a real long trip but we're gonna give it a solid 6. So for our grand total we're gonna score this destination a 45. That's out of a possible 60. That's pretty good. It's one of those really iconic places when you come you'll be seeing these mountains when you close your eyes for years to come. That's just about a guarantee. Alright y'all this is where I'm gonna sign out this video. Please do remember that you know things don't always go as planned. This trip has been a little bit different. I've had a road close to snow. I've had a road rain us out over a mountain pass and now a road close to a mudslide. It's things a little bit difficult for me here but nonetheless we are making the most of it because we are not quitters. We are the Americans.