Last day in Zion area

After a long day Monday, we took it pretty easy yesterday.  Started off late with a super lunch at Oscar's Cafe in Springdale.  It came highly recommended with good reason.  Then a leisurely drive out the Smithsonian Butte Scenic Backway with a detour to see the ghost town of Grafton.  It was first settled in 1859 by Mormons, but was abandoned for two years after a massive flood.  They tried to scrape out an existence growing cotton, but found it took all the land they could irrigate to raise enough food to get through the winters.  It was inhabited until the 1920's.  Also of interest, some scenes from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" were filmed here.  A couple shots.

 The backway is a dirt road bordering on a 4wd trail in a couple places, but easily driven by our two Jeeps.  After a whole day yesterday in our dust, CT took the lead.  A gorgeous day after a storm blew through last night.

CT in the lead

Beautiful view

It was a nice quiet day getting back around 3pm, even time for a nap:)  I slept while CT extricated two plastic forks from his sewer macerator while loving the RV life:-)  Wonder how they got in there???
We're off to Bryce Canyon this morning.