The trip is to go to the northern edge of Zion near Georgetown. There is an 11,000 foot peak you can easily drive to. That is the top of the grand staircase the bottom of which is the Colorado river in the Grand Canyon. This peak is visible for miles and miles as you travel down the staircase and is a spectacular point of reference.
The area is all about the rock and the trip down hill through the layers and layers and the colors and time. Consider it as a whole massive geological structure that cover mega square miles.
Go downward to Bryce Canyon then across to to the Grand Staircase Escalante and Escalante UT Utah, then enter the Capitol Reef Park across the Water Pocket Fold and over to Canyon Lands/ Arches.
Be sure to buy a National Parks Pass Port because you will get lots of opportunities to get it stamped.
Moab is on the route as is Bluff and Mexican Hat and Monument Valley.
For a thrill.....drive down the Mugy Dugway..... you’ll never forget driving down the edge of an 1800 foot mesa into the Valley of the Gods. There is a similar thrill as you cross the Water Pocket Fold.
I love the area.
Hiked down the Kaibob Trail, camped at the river overnight, walked back up Bright Angel Trail from the bottom of the Grand Canyon: Stunning trip.