Nearly every place we’ve visited has over delivered on some aspect of the time there.. perhaps until Lake Powell, partially because of unreasonable expectations (mine – I mean google Lake Powell and the photos are just incredible) and partially because of when we were visiting. We stayed at Wahweap Marina, along the Lake, and the Marina Hotel area itself hasn’t been maintained very well over the years. Add on low tourism season (Lake Powell sees 3 million visitors over the summer and nearly shuts down late October) + COVID season + staff who doesn’t seem to know much about the place and.. not our favorite stay. But we’ve been spoiled by a bunch of great locations and we did have some of our favorite day hikes around Lake Powell.

Pretty sunsets + boys running around in the sand + wild hares:

We visited Horseshoe Bend – iconic location but some majorly doctored photos out there. Short walk to visit < mile round trip.

Shepherd and my failed trip to take a kayak out on the lake. Pretty 3 mile trip to get to the Boathouse that wouldn’t give us a boat 😉

And so maybe I lied — maybe there was an ultimate highlight. Birdhouse Fried Chicken apparently lived up to it’s reputation as one of the best Fried Chicken spots in all the land (sorry W + S for the action shot).