Snowshoeing in Cedar Breaks National Park

By: Kellie Archuletta

Cedar Breaks was a winter wonderland for snowshoeing in southwestern Utah. The occasional glimpses of the National Park that we viewed along the trail were well worth the effort exerted in hiking to the overlooks.

Toni and I convinced our husbands and sons to forgo a day of skiing at Brian Head and try the aerobic sport of snowshoeing. After renting snowshoes and boots at Georg’s in Brian Head we headed up to the top of the closed road to try what was to become our new favorite wintertime sport. (O.K., O.K, my new favorite wintertime sport-everyone else would rather be skiing, or in the hot tub, or pretty much doing anything else, but why let facts get in the way of a good story.)

Except for a lone honeymooning couple we had the snow covered park to ourselves. We found several trails that a snowshoe had already traversed and we decided to follow along in the previous tracks. It was fun to be able to easily hike in the snow and none of us realized how much easier it is to enjoy the snow banks until a shoe would fall off and all of a sudden we would be up to our hip in snow and struggling to eradicate ourselves from the situation of being temporarily snowshoeless. We hiked and played for a few hours until the fun members of our party; decided it was time to make snow angels and the sport Nazi’s conceded that the aerobic part of the day was probably over. (I’m not naming names to protect the guilty.)

Cedar Breaks National Monument is 24 miles east of Cedar City and the closest accommodations are 2 miles to the north in Brain Head.

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Kellie Archuletta is a senior at UNLV majoring in Marketing, the president of the PTSA at Knudson Middle School the magnet for the performing arts and a former 5 time Olympic Marathon Trials Qualifier who still enjoys running and coaching. Her husband Jaime is a United Airlines Pilot. Her son Charlie is a 13 year old aspiring actor and musician. You can contact her by e-mail kellie.archuletta@cox.net

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