Name: Grotto Trail
Rating: 3.0

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Features Birding · Fall Colors · River/Creek · Views · Wildflowers

Family Friendly Take a quick walk after a picnic at The Grotto and enjoy the sights and sounds of the Virgin River.

Description

The Grotto trail provides connectivity between Zion Lodge, the Grotto Picnic Area and multiple trails including the Kayenta Trail and West Rim Trail.

Even though this trail closely parallels the main road, the scenic value is still high. You'd be hard-pressed not to be in awe of the geological wonders around you no matter where you are in the canyon.

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Land Manager: National Park Service - Zion National Park

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Trail Ratings

3.0 from 22 votes

#7

in Zion Canyon

#13961

Overall

3.0 from 22 votes

5 Star		5%
4 Star		14%
3 Star		59%
2 Star		23%
1 Star		0%

Trail Rankings

#7

in Zion Canyon

#483

in Utah

#13,961

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Nov 6, 2021 near Springdale, UT

Jan 15, 2016 near Springdale, UT

Angles Landing looks imposing from below. Further back is Observation Point

Apr 7, 2018 near Springdale, UT

May 10, 2019 near Springdale, UT

Feb 5, 2015 near Springdale, UT

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Mar 22, 2025

Ryan A

R,B,S, C,C

Mar 15, 2025

Anonymous

Nov 15, 2023

David Sauskojus

Jul 23, 2023

Paul Thurman

Jul 6, 2023

Tracy Eldredge

May 11, 2023

George Vogel

May 7, 2023

Wendy Stewart

0.8mi

Nov 24, 2022

Anil Kanagala

0.8mi — 10h 30m

Oct 4, 2022

Tyler salah

0.8mi

Jul 25, 2022

Madeline Angel

Jul 6, 2022

Matt Watt

Jun 2, 2022

G Allen Daily

0.6mi — 0h 16m

May 8, 2022

Pylar Godfrey

Great for coming down from the upper pools as a different root than the lower pool but wouldn't be fun to come up on. Very steep consistently

May 8, 2022

Joseph Smith

Mar 22, 2022

Mark Elli

Feb 3, 2022

Ashleigh Shunk

Nov 10, 2021

Brittney Vosbrink

Oct 14, 2021

Cory Finley

Oct 2, 2021

MAKENZIE DIAMOND

Sep 30, 2021

Amanda Saul

Jul 8, 2021

Maria Vega-Westhoff

Jul 6, 2021

Elisa Schmitz

Jun 4, 2021

Ainsley Droege

0.6mi — 0h 13m

May 18, 2021

Emily White

A nice paved walk connecting the grotto and the lodge. Not much to see, but a quiet path. 0.8mi

Apr 28, 2021

Kristin Hilla

Apr 26, 2021

Chelsea T

Apr 14, 2021

Kayt Erdahl

Mar 1, 2021

Stacey Bailey

Feb 25, 2021

Nicole Brainard

Always saw a bunch of deer when walking this connector trail

Jan 14, 2021

David Flores Benavides

Started at the grotto picnic area and ended at emerald pool parking had to walk back to grotto picnic area sucked balls

Nov 20, 2020

David Hitchcock

Aug 12, 2020

Jonathan Everest

Jun 6, 2020

Campbell Hawk

0.8mi — 0h 18m

May 31, 2020

Jesse M

May 15, 2020

Kacper Pawlaczyk

8h 20m

Nov 6, 2019

Kartik Palani

Sep 29, 2019

Tami Gonyea

Sep 8, 2019

Rich Leicht

Aug 5, 2019

Brenna K

Certainly just a trail to be used as a connector, but interesting to see many wasp-like bugs hugged tightly to small white flowers along the way.

Jun 23, 2019

Charlie Thiel

Use to get from one trailhead to another. Zion Lodge... 0.8mi

Jun 13, 2019

Mark Adam

Super easy, not very scenic

Jun 8, 2019

Lana Z

Jun 2, 2019

Sailaja Kotra-Turner

May 7, 2019

Ryan Hawkins

0.8mi

May 6, 2019

Nate D

1.6mi

Apr 25, 2019

Vinny Infantino

Apr 25, 2019

Tim M

Apr 7, 2019

Alan Durning

0.8mi

Mar 29, 2019

Max Schmaling

Mar 26, 2019

Bear Rinehart

Nov 24, 2018

Y H

Oct 4, 2018

Emily G

Aug 6, 2018

Ben Andrus

Walked up next to the Virgin River and back down the grotto trail with 4 whinny kids complaining about bugs and weeds and the heat. It was awesome. 1mi

Jul 9, 2018

Chris Gardner

Jul 5, 2018

Lea Marx

Jun 28, 2018

Chris Gardner

Jun 14, 2018

Kari Slominski

This was the only thing we were able to do after having jelly legs from Angel’s Landing. Huge boulders!

Jun 13, 2018

Thomas Hunt

May 27, 2018

Adam Grau

1mi

May 2, 2018

Sherri Johnson

Apr 29, 2018

Sherri Johnson

Apr 22, 2018

Kailey Crowell

Nov 10, 2017

Stacey van der Veen

Nov 10, 2017

Wil van der Veen

Nov 6, 2017

Tam O

Gets you here to there. 0.8mi

Nov 3, 2017

Alex Meyer

Sep 30, 2017

Richard de Oliveira

Sep 24, 2017

Colleen Gebauer

Sep 24, 2017

Brooke Walczak

Used a number of times to get between Zion Lodge and the Grotto.

Sep 24, 2017

Dustin Kindall

Sep 15, 2017

Giulia Venturi

Jul 23, 2017

Bijal P-Dubs

Jun 9, 2017

Rohit C

May 9, 2017

Antonio Conte

Mar 12, 2017

Robin Segert Nuzzo

Mar 11, 2017

Skip Spilman

Hiked with a running 3yr. old. 0.6mi

Dec 19, 2016

Joseph Lim

Nov 9, 2016

Erin Taylor

Oct 18, 2016

Glenn Virdin

Sep 19, 2016

Ali Wiklund

Aug 1, 2016

Christy Haeuptle

Jul 19, 2016

Christopher Higginson

Jun 14, 2016

Nate Morriss

Jun 4, 2016

Falon French

May 25, 2016

James Rathkopf

Mar 22, 2016

Tim Rau

Mar 7, 2016

Jeff Swanson

Hiked with Kirsten, Jacob and Micah. Actually took "game trail" which followed the Virgin River. 0.8mi

Nov 21, 2015

Katie Millar

Jul 15, 2014

Eugene Liu

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Features Birding · Fall Colors · River/Creek · Views · Wildflowers

Family Friendly Take a quick walk after a picnic at The Grotto and enjoy the sights and sounds of the Virgin River.

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#13961

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#483

#13,961

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