Mossy Cave at Bryce Canyon Doesn’t Have a Cave, FYI

Hiking to the Mossy Cave trail at Bryce Canyon National Park might come with a bit of a surprise – if you’re looking for moss or a cave. Overall and with great regularity, I’ve found the National Park Service descriptions confounding, lacking, and obtuse. But the maps are good, and that’s the important thing. What you will find at Mossy Cave is, in my opinion, is something better than a cave, especially in the hot desert. What you’ll find is water. Lots of it, falling off a cliff – as in a waterfall. (There will be no mention of this in the literature). Falling Water This Utah summer has been a scorcher so far, and the places for water recreation, especially in Bryce Canyon, are few and far between. That’s what makes Mossy Cave such a surprising delight. The trail is at the end of the park off of Highway 12. It’s described as less than a mile long with an elevation gain of 200 feet. That much is true. It says it’s a streamside walk to a mossy grotto that fills with icicles in winter and dripping moss in the summer. What it doesn’t say is that there’s a […]

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