My wife is from Florida, so growing up spring break was always either the beach or one of the amusement parks down there. This year we were finally in a good spot to take our two kids somewhere new and refreshing. My wife found this spot while she was on TikTok, and started immediately making plans for it. Kanab, Utah was our destination, and within a couple of days, my wife had already planned out all the activities we would be doing. She found these nice little cabin-style hotels and mapped how far the other things she wanted to do were from the AirBnb. So when spring break came around we decided we would drive from Texas to Utah, which is about 18 hours. We would stop in Rosewell, New Mexico to show the kids the aliens, and also treat it as our rest stop before we made the last leg of our trip to Kanab.
We made it to Kanab, a little town with everything we needed for a nice trip. The first thing on our agenda was sandboarding at a place called pink coral sand, it was a 15-minute drive from where we were, and once we got there we rented our boards and proceeded to hike up the dunes. The people there gave us the option to snowboard down or we could sled down. The kids loved sledding down the hills, they even had a sitting area with bleachers you get to sit down and watch at the entrance.
After that the next few days we hiked and rented ATVs and were given a tour of some of the other hikes that would have been too hard to do on foot. We were shown the Peekaboo slot, which we were lucky but also unlucky because it had been raining so the main place we would be walking had water running through it; not enough to make us turn back but enough to make the walk more difficult.
The kids loved running through the water, but my wife and I not so much, mainly because Kanab was cold that time of year, so wet cold feet were not enjoyable. It was a very pretty landscape, even when it was gray and cloudy outside.
We ended our trip by going snow tubing, something the kids had been looking forward to the whole time. It was a one-and-a-half-hour drive from our little cabins, called Brian Head, but the scenery was beautiful. We drove up to a ski resort and rented some cold weather gear, but after that, we walked to the ski lifts and right next to it they had the snow tubes set up. You had to stand on a conveyer belt that took you to the top of the hill. The kids enjoyed that just as much as the actual tubing. When we were done snow tubing we had a local ice cream shop, called Soda Fountain, which was a nightly routine on our trip. We would always stop on our way back from any activity grab food there and ice cream then head back to our little cabin. Since we have been back home, my wife and I still miss that little Ice cream shop and can't wait until we can go back again!
