If there is the perfect place for dogs on this earth, it is a place where the saddest cases are given the best humans have to offer. Best Friends is an animal shelter for abandoned and abused animals one mile off US89 in Angel Canyon. They take all animals - horses, goats, exotic cats, you name it. While I was browsing the gift shop, Lily, a mix breed white shorthair came over and laid on my feet. Not at my feet, on my feet.
Visitors are welcome and tours are available.
Even the incredible Utah scenery must end eventually. After 500 miles of heaven on earth, I was spit out onto the Kaibab Plateau like a watermelon seed at a July picnic to wither and dry in the sun. The Plateau is what becomes the north rim of the Grand Canyon, but north of that it is flat, treeless, dusty and hot. Perfect land for a reservation. Three miles later, there is no village.