Dixie National Forest — Attraction in Parowan

Beautiful! You will feel your troubles slide away just driving into Dixie National Forest! About 25 miles up HWY 14 from Cedar City Utah you will come to Lake Navajo. Navajo is the place to be for shoreline fishing with the fam! 2017 mountain snowmelt has this lake full to capacity and the fish are biting! Easily accessible, this lake offers 2 improved campgrounds, cabins for rent with all amenities, small marina, boat rental, fishing, swimming. Lake Navajo can easily accomadate canoes, paddle boats, small engine boats. Best of all this year the road in is being improved and prepared for paving!

Duck Creek Village is a quaint mountain town with friendly people. You won't find any major chain retail or hotels here. You will find just about anything you could need for your retreat. Lodging, gas, c-store, pizza! You can rent OHVS, fish, camp (improved and dispersed sites), hike, you name it, Duck Creek has it! A little further down the road you can go on guided horse rides. $35 per person for a full hour. Or continue on to Mammoth Creek! Again the water ways here are full to capacity due to snow melt. Mammoth also offers improved and dispersed campsites. Several extremely cool cabins. And guided side by side rides. At any of these locations you will see a plethora of wildlife, flora and fauna! So visit Dixie National...

Mammoth Cave is such a great place to check out with a group! We went for a visit during our family reunion and took us around 40-60 minutes with young kids from 2 years old to grown adults. Take good flashlights or headlamps. And old clothes or a change of clothes to keep the car clean. Part of the cave you can enter from a small entrance through bars. (See pictures) the first part of this will be a bit narrow and tight... Once through this section 20 or so feet. Then you'll be able to stand and walk down the entire length of the cavern. (See more pictures) exit through another section of bars and out the large Mammoth Cave Crater type section that also has a few off chutes of tubes or areas to check out. Watch you step and duck your heads in areas that are a bit dicy. Can be a little muddy in areas the cave itself does have a few places of dripping water. Overall super cool to check out and anyone who is not real clostrophobic can do this. I would suggest at least 2+ even 4+ groups to stay together and help each other in some of the larger rock areas that you'll need to traverse around or over. All in all worth the trip and enjoyed it! Bathrooms are in the parking lot and area is large enough to park plenty...

Dixie National Forest encompasses several areas of pristine beauty in southern Utah, surrounding some of the nation's most prestigious National Parks and Monuments. You could spend a lifetime exploring Dixie National Forest without seeing it all. Much of the formation of the mountains within Dixie National Forest is part of the Colorado Plateau but borders on the Mohave Desert and Great Basin biomes in the Southwest region near Saint George. From chaparral lively with lizards and snakes to dense pine forest with waterfalls and large herds of deer, Dixie National Forest has it all. A lesser known area just outside of Teasdale, Utah is my favorite place within the forest which I have visited. Often ignored by visitors to Capital Reef National Park and Grand Staircase National Monument, this is a quiet place with all the grandeur of the surrounding Parks and monuments. Get out there and explore, and you may just find your own escape from the noise of the city within Dixie...