Enjoy Ice Skating in Cedar City, Utah. If you have ever felt the magic of gliding across the ice on skates, but thought those days were gone since St. George, Utah is in the middle of the desert, take heart. Even though the average winter daily temperatures here in St. George are too warm to sustain a sheet of skateable ice, Cedar City has a solution.

In honor of yesterday being Pioneer Day, the state holiday celebrating the Mormon pioneers first arriving in Utah in 1847, we’re looking back on the history of St. George, Utah. The earliest known inhabitants of the area that would later become St. George were the Virgin River Anasazi, who resided here from approximately 200 B.C. to 1200 A.D.

Looking up through the window of a shuttle bus, the majesty of Zion National Park passes by quickly in a montage of red, white and green. Getting off the bus at its stops and taking in the park slowly brings the steep cliffs and fanciful rock formations into a focused clarity of sharp stone, deep canyons and rounded sandstone.