Zion Canyon Bed & Breakfast

Larry and Liz built the house on Kokopelli Cir in the late 1990s with the intention of running it as a bed and breakfast. Liz had spent most of her adult life living and working in Springdale, which means her knowledge of the canyon — which restaurants are worth the price, which trailheads get crowded in the morning, where the light is best on the formations — is the kind you only develop by being there through the seasons for years. That local knowledge is part of what the Zion Canyon Bed & Breakfast offers alongside the rooms.

The property sits less than a mile from the Zion South Entrance, on a quiet side street off the main corridor. Ryan and Ashley — the second generation of the host family — are on-site hosts alongside Larry and Liz. Guests who have stayed more than once sometimes mention knowing three generations of the family, which in Springdale's short history of tourism is its own kind of anchor. Breakfast is made from scratch each morning: burritos and fresh coffee, the kind of meal you can build a hike around.

The bed-and-breakfast format — a family home built for guests, not a renovated motel — is increasingly rare in Springdale as the corridor fills with larger properties. The Zion Canyon B&B is one of the few rooms in town where you're staying in a house that was designed for you and has been tended by the same family since it opened.