Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park in the Winter: Family-friendly Places to Play, Stay and Eat

Bryce Canyon National Park. Famous for its expansive Bryce Amphitheater and a swirling red-rock world of pillars, hoodoos, and fin-like ridges that are stunning enough during the summer months but in winter, they erupt from the rim of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in a fiery display set against the cold white snow. This high-elevation park is also Utah’s smallest with an area of only 56-square miles.  I have only been to Bryce Canyon in the “off-season” so I have come to expect a pristine, uncrowded winter wonderland with the absence of the tourists who flood the park every May through October. My first visit was when I was a single gal working as a travel writer. I was invited to cover the Bryce Canyon Winter Festival that still lives on every President’s Day weekend with...