We had my nephew, his best friend and my niece visiting, so we decided to show them some places and activities around the Southwest we like.<\/p>\n
Snow Canyon, St. George, UT<\/strong><\/p>\n Our first stop was Snow Canyon state park near St. George, UT. My niece kind of randomly picked this place because we figured we would not find any camping spots close to Zion National Park. It turned out to be a great find.<\/p>\n We arrived in the late afternoon with temperatures in the 100s (> 38 C). We picked a camping spot and decided not to set up the tent in the heat and with the thread of thunderstorms. It was too hot to do anything and we just found some shade in a little canyon behind our camp site to hang out. As we were resting more and more clouds moved in and we heard the first thunder. When it started to sprinkle we took the car for a drive through the park to wait out any rain. This turned into one of the most amazing drives one could take there. A thunderstorm moved over us and it started to rain hard. The terrain was right for little waterfalls and streams to form and so we drove to the part of the park where we could get closest to the canyon walls. As we where looking around we could see little streams forming and the first waterfalls all around us. Then we remembered that right behind our campsite was a wall that looked like it might sometimes have water. We went back and arrived to a roaring water fall. We could also see the little dry stream beds around the camp fill with water and become fast running creeks.<\/p>\n