Toquerville Falls
Adventure near Hurricane
High-clearance four-wheel drive only. The road is several miles of rock ledges and it strands rental cars every week.
Desert waterfalls at the end of a rough road north of La Verkin — swimming holes with nobody selling anything.
Stay close to it
See every Utah homeMore around here
River Rock Roasting Company
Coffee, wood-fired pizza and a deck built out over the Virgin River gorge, on the road to Zion.
Red Cliffs Recreation Area
Short red-sand trails to waterfall pools and petroglyphs, in the reserve between Hurricane and St. George.
Quail Creek State Park
The warmest water in the county by late May, and quieter than Sand Hollow next door.
Gooseberry Mesa
Slickrock mountain biking on a mesa above town, with the Zion skyline in view most of the way round.
Sand Hollow State Park
Red rock standing in blue-green water with sand dunes behind it — the closest swimming, boating and dune riding to Hurricane.
Snow Canyon State Park
Petrified dunes, lava tubes and white-on-red sandstone in a canyon you can walk across in an afternoon.