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Thenaturalmedic Adventures
Three Miles, Countless “Wows,” And One Very Out-Of-Breath Narrator
We hike the Queen’s Garden Navajo Loop at Bryce Canyon counterclockwise, dropping into hoodoos, spotting Queen Victoria, and climbing Wall Street at sunset. Along the way we share timing tips, parking choices, and why golden hour turns this three-mile loop into pure magic.
• starting at Sunrise Point and choosing counterclockwise
• route overview and mileage expectations
• walking among hoodoos in Queen’s Garden
• finding the Queen Victoria formation
• turning toward Wall Street and the slot canyon
• climbing switchbacks and tunnels to Sunset Point
• timing the hike for golden hour views
• quick gear and etiquette reminders
• reflections and invite for comments
If you have any comments, questions about Bryce, or anything for that matter, send us a message!
Hey there. Well my last two raw for the day. I'm gonna do the Queen's Garden Navajo Loop, which is a highly recommended trail here at Bryce Canyon. Since I'm here, I don't know when I'm gonna be back. Might as well do it. I parked pretty far over that way. Well, I mean relatively speaking pretty far. But it's okay. You can park anywhere around here. Just start heading kind of to your east from the sunrise point. Parking is where I parked at sunrise. You can also park at sunset and start either way, but they do recommend you go in kind of a counterclockwise motion on the trail. The Navajo Loop Queen's Garden is actually a two-loop to make one trail. It's three miles long, or just under three miles, and supposedly takes two to three hours. We'll have to 3:30 right now, mid-October. Should have plenty of time to do it. I think I can do it in like an hour and a half. We'll see if I'm right. I believe straight ahead over there is Rice Point. Pretty sure this is the grand amphitheater here. It's pretty big. I think that's maybe inspiration point. Over here, there's a lot of people over in that area. Just looking down. Wow. Awesome. There's a trail down there past those. You can zoom in. It's right past that area there. But I don't know what trail that is. It might be the trail I'm going on. Maybe not. Trail starts down here by sun point. And they want you to go in a counterclockwise direction. Let's do it. This is the sign for Queen's Garden. It's a ridge that follows, or you follow a ridge, this is 0.9 miles down to Queen Victoria in our garden of Hoodoos. You can turn around and return and continue to ascend Navajo Loop during the combination, which is on here. This is where I'm at, right here, Sunrise Point. Go down and see Queen Victoria. Come around and join up with Navajo Loop. That's what I'm gonna do. And we'll see how long it takes. It's about a three-mile hike, so let's go do it. I can see why people like this trail and why it comes highly recommended because you're walking down amongst all the hoodoos in here. And that's the fun part. Okay, this is pretty amazing to be down amongst yeah. So I highly recommend this trail if you're looking for a trail to do. And wow, just amazing all the sights down here. Alright, this is Queen Victoria down here in the hoodoo area. You can see what it's supposed to look like. Right there, maybe. This is what the hoodoo looks like. Gonna have to be a little creative to see that. Let's zoom in. But she's got her little veil on at the top and kind of standing there all regal looking. Very cool. We're heading up. This is where the split of the Navajo loop is. You can go through here and hike the hoodoos down the low part. But this way is where Wall Street is. I'm gonna go that way and go up to Sunset Point. It's about 0.7 miles. It hasn't taken that long to do this trail, about an hour and eight minutes so far. So many beautiful, gorgeous views. I really wish I could give you more. But right now I can't. But I'll do what I can on the way up. Alright, look at this. Beautiful views. Pick the right time to hike this thing. Wow. Hope you're enjoying. If you are, give it a thumbs up. This is definitely the time to be down here on this Navajo Loop Queen's Garden. That's my new friends from California that they're hiking with me. I'm hiking with them actually. We were just remarking how beautiful the sunset is coming into the alcoves and the hoodoos and everything. I think you'll agree as well. Beautiful time to be down here. Looking behind me, you have a little slot canyon that you come up on the back side of the Navajo Loop. Pretty cool. So looking down, came up those switchbacks and through this little tunnel right here. And probably about two-thirds of the way up. Gotta go up here and then finally up there to get out. Here's a look through the hole. Looking up. Wow. Holy crap. Well, that was interesting. Would love to have filmed more, but I was enjoying the hike too much. Hopefully you enjoyed it. If you did, make sure to give it a thumbs up. Think about subscribing to the channel so you don't miss future episodes and content. If you have any comments, questions about Bryce, or anything for that matter, leave them below. Appreciate you listening as always. See you next time out there on the trail. Bye bye.
