My wife, who is a corporate travel agent, did a first-rate job of planning the trip. A visit to a national park of the size and scale of Zion requires very detailed planning. Here are some of the things that helped us.
Lodging: Flanigan's Inn in Springdale, Utah. It has a spectacular view of Zion Canyon, a health spa and exercise, a pool, five-star dining, Internet access and more...but the best part for me was the peace and quiet and privacy.
Other UseZion National Park Links:
Zion Natural History Association
National Park Service
Wikipedia Zion National Park Page
(An aside...when we got to Flanigan's, we had just come from one night at Circus Circus in Vegas, which was loud and crowded. My wife wanted to visit one night there because they have a five-acre amusement park. Problem is, the "parents" all dump their little angels at the amusement park and go gamble, so these abandoned kids wander about like pack animals.
What was funny is that the Center for Missing and Exploited Children has a large poster at the entrance of the Circus Circus amusement park. What they should have is an office at the center of the Circus Circus amusement park because they could find hundreds of missing and exploited kids each hour in that hell hole.)
