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4. The Peek-A-Boo Loop Trail
If the Navajo and Queen’s Garden Trails are too busy for you, this five-and-a-half-mile trail might work for you. There’s an elevation gain here of over 1,500 feet. Since most of it occurs rather quickly, the hike is rated strenuous.
Here you steeply descend into the striking Bryce Canyon Amphitheater, hike through huge hoodoos, and more. Be sure to see the Wall of Windows, where the arches and various cracks in the upper sections of the joining hoodoos frame the sky behind it.
You can do this hike with the previously mentioned Queen’s Garden/Navajo Loop. It’s a trail known as the “Figure 8 Combination Trail.” It’s a double loop hike that’s almost six and a half miles long and covers more of the popular amphitheater.
5. The Queen’s Garden Trail
This easy hike is an out-and-back trail that’s under two miles. It seems like a loop trail though because the views in each different direction are distinctly different. Some travel writers say it is comparable in diversity and beauty
to the well-known Queen’s Garden/Navajo Loop Combination Trail, but it’s “less than half the distance, making it perfect for [travelers who are] short on time.”
You begin at Sunrise Point, hiking along the top of pine-dotted, limestone and mud ridges as you descend into the canyon as the hoodoos rise ‘round you. There are steep drop-offs on at least one side of the ridges, and the trail is only moderately wide. You even pass through artificial arches in a few places.
Relax on one of the benches in the shady patch of pine trees. See the famous hoodoo that looks like Queen Victoria. Return to the parking lot via the same trail.
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