Post by librarygirl on Nov 25, 2014 15:28:03 GMT -5
Hi ladies,
I'm in the very early stages of planning a small trip to Utah next March. Husband will be attending a conference in Salt Lake City at the beginning of the month, I'm planning to fly out after it's over. We'd then like to hit up one of the national parks (neither of us are skiers). Originally, my heart was set on Arches but since it's early March and that is more north, someone recommended we visit Zion instead. We're in PA and very used to the cold/driving in winter, but in early March, how bad can the roads/highways be? Would you recommend renting a 4x wheel drive? I'm into photography, we both like moderate hiking (nothing hardcore outdoors stuff). Also, if we do end up going with Zion, I see that it's closer to Las Vegas than Salt Lake City (2.5 hours versus 4ish hours), it shouldn't be a problem to return a rental car in Nevada instead (we'd just fly back from Vegas then), right? Forgive me ignorance, we've just never returned a rental car in a state different from where we picked it up.
I got all excited when I first started reading your post and was all ready to tell you to ski the Canyons, etc., but then you added the "qualifier". No help from me as I have been to that area several times but only to ski.
With that being said, I have picked up and returned a rental car to another location/state. It was seamless and easy to do. I believe they may have charged a fee of some sort, but not big.
Driving should be no problem in March. I haven't been to Zion specifically in March, but I've driven through to vegas and experienced no problem. Freak storms happen, but you can't really ever plan on those.