Description: Don’t want to drive 45 minutes to an hour to get to Zion National Park? Don’t to pay $50-$80 for the annual Zion pass or the $25 week use? Still want a hike with amazing scenery, waterfalls, swimming holes and red rock cliffs and canyon walls? Want a short and simple hike? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Red Cliffs Recreation area is the hike for you! Red Cliffs is about 20 minutes from St. George just North of Quail Creek reservoir and features gorgeous sandstone cliffs, great picnic and camping areas, large cottonwood trees, a nearby hike to an old Anasazi Indian habitation, the old Orson Adams Pioneer house (1863), and the gorgeous 6 mile Red Reef Trail into the Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness.
Cost: $2 per vehicle for day use.
Location: Take Interstate 15 north from St. George, Utah, to Exit 22*. At the end of the freeway off-ramp, turn right onto Old Highway 91 (frontage road). Travel south 2 miles and turn right after passing the sign for the Red Cliffs Recreation Area. Continue under two freeway tunnels and follow the paved road for 1.3 miles into the campground.
*If heading south from Cedar City, Utah, take Exit 23. Turn left on Silver Reef Road, then turn right onto Main Street. Travel south for 3.5 miles on Main Street (which turns into Old Highway 91). Continue the directions above.
Web Site: http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/st__george/recreation/day_use_areas/red_cliffs_recreation.html
