Read this awesome article by my pal, Stepanie Anagnoson–Zion National Park – In the Off Season:
The first time I visited Zion National Park, outside of Springdale, Utah, I was sixteen and it was July. My family was on a car trip to see the national parks of the west over three weeks with my grandmother wedged in between my brother and I in the back seat.
read the article in its entirety here