Hiking to the AMAZING Kanarra Falls + Kolob Canyons at Zion National Park (Timber Creek Overlook)

So one of the best parts about this hike is that you get wet. That's a little scary. For the last couple days we've been exploring Zion National Park. We've hiked some of the popular trails in Zion Canyon, explored the less busy Kolob Terrace, and visited what we think is the best view in the park at Observation Point. And for our final couple days at Zion we're heading northwest for some adventures both in and outside of the park starting with a hike to the popular Canara Falls is located close to Zion National Park in the town of Canaraville. And a few important things to know about this hike, they only allow 150 hikers per day and you have to get a permit to hike which costs $12 per person. Used to be kind of a local secret hidden gem but it's become very very popular so the permits sell out fast. We got ours about six weeks ago and they're already sold out for like weeks in advance. And despite it being outside the National Park dogs are still not allowed. But it's a super unique hike we are so excited to do it but we don't want to spoil it so just stay tuned. All right first of many river water crossings. All right it's about to get a little more interesting. It's okay. I'm sorry to laugh at your pain. So one of the best parts about this hike is that you get wet which can be bad if it's really really cold but basically for the rest of the hike from our understanding we're going to be hiking through a creek kind of like the Narrows at Zion. This has been compared to many Narrows. Since we couldn't do the Narrows this time this looks like an awesome alternative. We bought these neoprene socks yesterday which are basically like wetsuit socks to hopefully keep our feet from freezing because we read that the water's like 30 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit right now. We knew that we were going to be getting our feet wet and we knew it was going to be cold so we were just kind of all right just gonna have to grin and bear it but yesterday last second decision we looked around looking for these socks and we we were calling around we saw a review that someone got some from Ace Hardware of all places so we called them up in Cedar City and they had a few pairs so rushed over there grabbed them. Now we are hitting the Narrows part. It looks just like it. This is so tall like 200 250 feet. This is like Wire Pass and the Narrows having a baby or just the Narrows on a smaller scale. This is so much fun. It's getting so loud in here. Check this out. That's a little scary. That was such an awesome amazing so much fun experience. Oh my gosh. Loved it. Blast even though it's really cold it is so much fun. Yeah so we conquered that ladder and you can actually keep going further than that there's another big boulder that you can climb up onto and go around there's not as many hand holes there's a couple logs that go up that you can put your feet on to go. I got up there she got halfway. I struggled to get up like the last big rock because I couldn't like get my legs to swing so I just and my hands were so cold they're like turning numb and hurting I just didn't feel confident in my ability to lift myself up and just yeah I just didn't feel like the safest idea for us so we turned around from there but you can go farther than even that part I think there's like one more waterfall or one more section but then they say like you really need to turn around after that it can get really really dangerous so we're happy with what we did yeah that ladder thing is so cool and unique and different you don't see that really yeah it was probably one it's probably one of my favorite hikes I was gonna say the same thing it was it's it's up there like top five maybe I don't know it's like the narrows but with a ladder and a waterfall and just so many things to see and do it was just so I can't recommend it enough. We'll say though I was hyping these socks up but my feet are getting cold but imagine if I didn't have these socks on we didn't have them it would be 10 times worse dry warm shoes feel so good so the all trails map says it's six miles round trip for the hike but for the part that we did just going to that second waterfall and turning back it was about four miles or four miles exactly and took us about two hours and 10 minutes we wanted to grab a post hike treat at this little place called canarifal snackery it's a super cute kind of like snack stand on this family's farm they sell coffee smoothies a couple food items it just looked so cool but unfortunately I don't think they've opened for the season yet that's something we've noticed as we've kind of traveled through southern utah a little bit little places like this or just restaurants in general they might close down for the season and they tend to open up around this time march april kind of thing so if you're planning on coming here just keep that in mind that that could be the case so you know what's open and not so you're not sad yeah but this place is really cool if you come in the summertime i'm sure they're open then definitely check it out it's it's precious has a great view we hear there are farm animals too so looks like an awesome spot but we're just going to spend the rest of the day mostly just letting our shoes dry and also just working a bit and then tomorrow we're going to head to zion national park again but this time we're going to go to colob canyons which is an area of the park colob canyons was added to zion national park in 1956 and it's about a 50 minute drive from the famous zion canyon and way less busy than that part of the park so we here and so far the views are just as incredible we just drove the five mile scenic drive and we'll show you more of that in a bit but first we are doing the timber creek overlook trail which is about a mile round trip this overlook is incredible just basically i guess 270 degree views man the light's like pouring through and then behind back here the light's already shining on these mountains here it's gorgeous you can see so far off that way this is a special spot and there's no one else here i feel like we're a broken record always talking about the crowds but we just love to experience nature and more solitude and that's kind of hard at zion sometimes so this spot is so so so special next up we're going to drive back down the scenic drive like i said it's about five miles and we noticed on the way up and we read beforehand that all the pull-offs or most of them are on the right side so it's probably best to do the stop offs on your way back down we really thought this area of the park was just as beautiful as zion canyon the main area the only downside is there's less trails to do and the ones that are here more backpack focus as opposed to day hiking so we originally planned to do a hike today called the middle fork of the taylor creek canyon i don't know it's a long name supposed to be the best hike in this part of the park and it's not too long however yesterday there was a rock slide and they've closed the trail and we were actually supposed to be here yesterday but it was too hot to leave kona so we pushed it to this morning and so we are super bummed that we missed the trail by a day but we are so thankful that we were not on the trail when that happened from the little we've heard it was there was tons of dust everywhere but we don't really know the extent of the damage or when the trail will be back open so if you are visiting zion we definitely recommend coming to this area and hopefully that trail will be back open because we hear it's really beautiful and hopefully the canary fall snackery will be open and you'll have better luck with that too we've of course loved our time at zion and we really enjoyed exploring the areas that we hadn't been to and kind of the lesser known areas it's just been an amazing time so beautiful here can't get over it but in our next video we are going to be exploring bryce canyon national park which is another national park we have visited before but we're really excited to go back spiderweb kalab canyons okay colo colo colo dang it colob i want to say colob it's not right colub dang i said it wrong yesterday ah okay oh gross my toes look disgusting do you see that they're like great like grapes little prunes the only downside is there's less trails to hike and the trails that are here more backpack backpack focused backpack i'm going backpacking you coming