Zion National Park: Emerald Pools

After Glacier we hurried down to Zion for the final chapter of this six week odyssey. We got there in the early morning and when I saw a sign that said they had available room up at the lodge we made a quick decision to book it, damn the budgetary consequences.

The first touristy thing we did afterwards, was to walk up to the first of three levels of the so-called "Emerald pools".

I suppose emeralds are a shade of green, but this was somewhat underwhelming.


The multicolored walls curved inwards due to the water carving out rock over the centuries.


I'm told it's quite the sight to see when there's more water coming down.




And from certain angles it still looked nice.


But as a whole, I was still skeptical of the place.