Banavar–Sahay · Utah & Nevada

Zion & Las Vegas

Wed Oct 21 – Wed Oct 28, 2026 · 7 nights 3 travellers: Adithya, Vatsala, Leela (3)

At a Glance

Travellers

  • Adithya — strict vegan + Jain. No meat, dairy, egg, honey; no onion, garlic, leek, chive, scallion, shallot; no mushroom.
  • Vatsala — vegetarian. ~26 weeks pregnant (due 31 Jan 2027). Plantar fasciitis — stability + cushioning, no long standing.
  • Leela — 3y10m. Vegetarian. The three of you share one King; every room below is booked on that basis.

No allergies. Leela has outgrown dairy and soy as of July 2026.

Flights ✓ Ticketed · conf. GRZOXZ

DateFlightRouteFare
Wed 21 OctDL807JFK 11:25am → LAS 2:08pmMain Extra (T)
Wed 28 OctDL333LAS 9:59am → JFK 6:12pmMain Extra (V)

All three on one PNR. Ticket 0062452822303, issued 1 Aug 2026. Main Extra = fully refundable, not eCredit-only.

Shape of the week

NightsWhereBooked
Wed 21Las Vegas — The Venetian✓ Booked
Thu 22 – Mon 26Springdale, Utah — VRBO townhome✓ Booked
Tue 27Las Vegas — Signature at MGM Grand✓ Booked

Pace

Never up before 7am — leave later where possible. One major thing a day. Dinner early enough for Leela's bedtime. Restroom stops roughly hourly at named cafés or visitor centres, not every 20 minutes.

Wed 21 OctLas Vegas · night 1

Arrival

  • 2:08pm — land at LAS on DL807.
  • Collect bags, then the free Rent-A-Car Center shuttle. T1 doors 10–11, T3 doors 51–54, every ~5 min, ~7 min ride. There is no in-terminal rental at LAS — the shuttle is unavoidable.
  • Avis at the Rent-A-Car Center, 7135 Gilespie St · open 24 hours. President's Club — skip the counter, go to the stalls.
  • At the hotel by ~4pm.

The Venetian ✓ Booked

Itinerary
Delta Stays 73508401569624 · booked 29 Jul
Room
Newly Remodeled Luxury Room, 1 King · non-smoking
Times
Check-in 3:00 PM · check-out 11 AM · min. age 21
Paid to Delta
$143.08
At property
$62.36 resort fee
Total
$205.44 (21% off — saved $33.80)
Cancel by
Sun 18 Oct, 11:59pm — free. After that, 100% penalty.
VIP Access
$20 beverage credit + $25 casino credit per room, per stay
Why
5.0-star, 9.2/10 from 17,997 reviews, tower renovation complete. Cheapest genuine 5-star of the week.
Address
3355 S Las Vegas Blvd · (888) 283-6423

$150/night card authorisation at check-in. Earns up to 882 miles. Parking is $20/day self-park, not included — budget it on top of the $205.44.

No door between bedroom and living area — the Venetian's layout is a sunken living room with an open bedroom. Accepted deliberately; the alternative at 5-star with a door was $2,449 at the Wynn.

Book the Palazzo instead? No. Its tower is the next phase of the $1.5B renovation, running through late 2026.

Evening: family night, everyone together. The solo casino evening is Tue 27, not tonight — you drive to Zion in the morning.
Thu 22 OctVegas → Springdale

The drive ✓ Verified 3 Aug

RoutingDrivingMilesvs direct
Straight through, no stops2 hr 33162—
FeelLove + Sprouts + Hurricane ← the plan2 hr 49167+16 min
Swapping FeelLove for Bonrue Bakery (downtown)2 hr 56170+23 min

Google Maps, live traffic. Three stops cost sixteen minutes of driving — everything is essentially on I-15. Add ~70 min actually stopped and it's about 4 hours door to door.

  • Leave after 7am at the earliest, ideally later. Breakfast at the Venetian first.
  • Utah is Mountain Time — you lose an hour at the state line. Leave Vegas 9:00am Pacific → Springdale ~2:05pm Mountain with all three stops.
  • Check-in is 3:00 PM, so even the full version lands with time to spare. Don't rush.

Stop 1 · FeelLove Coffee — the treat Call to confirm vegan items

~1 hr 50 in, St. George. The only place on the route that explicitly advertises "vegan and organic breakfast, lunch and dinner" alongside French pastries — rather than a conventional bakery you'd have to interrogate.

Address
558 E Riverside Dr #208, St. George
Phone
(435) 922-1717
Hours
Mon–Fri 6am–7pm · Sat–Sun 7am–4pm — you arrive on a Thursday, so wide open

What to ask when you call: which pastries are actually vegan (butter and egg wash are the usual traps in French baking), whether they have oat milk, and whether anything savoury is allium-free. Nothing here is confirmed yet.

Alternative: Bonrue Bakery, 18 S 200 W · (435) 986-7777 · daily 6am–4pm. Better-known bakery, but it's downtown so it adds 7 more minutes, and vegan availability is unverified — a conventional bakery is a long shot for vegan and Jain.

Stop 2 · Sprouts Farmers Market — the real shop ✓ Verified 3 Aug

This is the one that matters. Two minutes from FeelLove, same side of town. Organic produce, a proper vegan freezer and bulk bins — and unlike a restaurant, everything is labelled, so vegan and allium are things you can simply read rather than negotiate.

Address
1525 S River Rd, Unit 1, St. George
Phone
(435) 301-0739
Hours
Daily 7am–10pm

Buy here

  • Five days of breakfasts and lunches. The townhome has a full kitchen and this removes most of the week's dietary risk in one stop.
  • Lunches to carry into the canyon. There's one restaurant up there and the shuttle round trip is 40+ minutes — you can't nip out.
  • The vegan treats. Sprouts' freezer and bakery carry clearly-labelled vegan ice cream, cookies and packaged sweets. This is the reliable treat; FeelLove is the nicer experience.
  • Friday's lodge dinner. You're carrying dinner up to Zion Lodge on the 23rd — there's a mini-fridge and a shared microwave, no kitchen. Buy the makings now: something for a one-pot main, plus shelf-stable backups and breakfast for the 24th. Full list under Fri 23.
  • A cool bag. Genuinely needed, not optional — it carries frozen goods the 50 minutes to Springdale and then dinner up to the lodge on Friday.

Stop 3 · Hurricane — fuel and top-up ✓ Verified 2 Aug

29 minutes out from Springdale, and the last real town. With Sprouts done, this is mostly a gas stop — fill here, it's the last cheap fuel before the park.

Springdale Townhome 1 ✓ Booked

Booking
Vrbo HA-82L7C8 · property 743959 · hosts Matt & Trista
Arrive
Thu 22 Oct, 3:00 PM
Depart
Tue 27 Oct, 10:00 AM
Total
$3,078.56 — $1,921.72 paid 2 Aug, $1,156.84 auto-charges 7 Oct
Refund
100% to 8 Oct 11:59pm · 50% to 15 Oct · nothing after
Why this one
2.5 baths rather than 1 — the deciding factor at 26 weeks. Full kitchen.

The street address is not released until three days before arrival — Vrbo sends check-in instructions then. Add it here when it lands; several things below depend on it.

Evening: unpack, cook, early night. Nothing scheduled — you've done a flight day and a drive day back to back, and the clocks moved.

Zion — how the park works

The shuttle ✓ NPS, checked 2 Aug

During shuttle season you cannot drive the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive. Everything up-canyon is reached by the free shuttle. No ticket, permit or reservation — just turn up.

Your datesFirstLast
Thu 22 – Sat 24 Oct7:00 am6:00 pm
Sun 25 – Tue 27 Oct7:00 am5:00 pm

The last shuttle moves an hour earlier on 25 October, mid-stay. Easy to get caught out on the Sunday. Season boundary dates are the currently published ones — re-check in October

Stops, in order

1 Visitor Center · 2 Human History Museum · 3 Canyon Junction · 4 Court of the Patriarchs · 5 Zion Lodge · 6 The Grotto · 7 Weeping Rock · 8 Big Bend · 9 Temple of Sinawava

Getting to the shuttle from Springdale

A separate free Springdale town shuttle runs 9 stops through the village. Get off at Zion Canyon Village and walk across the Pedestrian Entrance footbridge into the park — that's where the canyon shuttle starts. Saves fighting for a visitor-centre parking space, which fills early.

Entry ✓ NPS, checked 2 Aug

  • $35 per private vehicle, valid 1–7 days — covers the whole stay in one payment.
  • America the Beautiful annual pass, $80 — worth it only if you'll hit two more federal sites within the year.
  • No timed entry or reservation to enter the park. (Angels Landing needs a permit — not relevant here.)
  • The shuttle is free.

Trails that fit this crew ✓ NPS distances

NPS classes Zion Canyon's easy hikes as 0.4–3.5 miles with no more than 100 ft of elevation gain. These three are the ones that work for a 3-year-old on foot and someone who can't do climbs.

TrailDistanceGainTimeFromSurface
Pa'rus Trail3.5 mi end-to-end50 ft~2 hrVisitor Center ↔ Canyon JunctionPaved · wheelchair, stroller, bikes, dogs
Riverside Walk2 mi round trip57 ft~1 hrStop 9 · Temple of SinawavaMostly paved
Lower Emerald Pool1.2 mi round trip69 ft~1 hrStop 5 · Zion LodgeUnpaved, gentle
Court of the Patriarchs0.1 mi round trip40 ft1–3 minStop 4Paved, 4 ft wide, steep — strollers need a push

Court of the Patriarchs is the best payoff-per-step in the park — about a minute uphill for a full canyon view. Worth doing on any day you're passing stop 4.

Pa'rus is the only stroller-friendly trail in the canyon — and it's also the only one dogs are allowed on. Riverside Walk is the signature easy walk and the one most worth doing.

Not doing: Angels Landing (permit, chains, sheer drops) or The Narrows (river wading, cold in October). Neither is appropriate.

The one road you can drive ✓ Verified 3 Aug

The shuttle-only rule covers the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive — the canyon floor. It does not cover the Zion–Mount Carmel Highway (Route 9), which climbs the east side. That road is open to private vehicles year round.

  • From Canyon Junction it's ~4.5 miles of switchbacks up to the 1930s tunnel, then completely different country on the far side — slickrock domes and checkerboard sandstone rather than canyon walls.
  • Serious scenery for zero walking. The best move for an afternoon when Leela is done, or if the weather turns.
  • Tunnel limits: 11′4″ high, 7′10″ wide, 35′9″ long. Any normal SUV clears it easily; oversized vehicles need a permit and an escort.

Canyon Overlook Trail sits just past the tunnel — and I'd skip it. It's only 1 mile and ~200 ft, but the overlook is largely unfenced above drops of several hundred feet and there have been fatal falls. Every guide says carry small children the whole way. Wrong trade with a 3-year-old who wants to walk. Parking is also only 8–10 spaces.

Late October means cold mornings and early dark. Sunset is early enough that a 5:00pm last shuttle is a real constraint on the Sunday and Monday. Layers, and plan to be down-canyon by mid-afternoon.

What you're not doing, and why

Zion's two signature hikes are out — not by preference, but because both are categorically unavailable to this group.

  • Angels Landing — 5.4 mi, ~1,500 ft, final half-mile on chains along a knife-edge with 1,000+ ft drops either side. Also permit by lottery. Impossible with a toddler; genuinely dangerous at 26 weeks.
  • The Narrows — wading the Virgin River. Late-October water is cold enough to need a drysuit, and the riverbed is loose and moving underfoot.

Riverside Walk recovers most of it. It is the paved approach to The Narrows and ends exactly where the river walk begins — same canyon, same thousand-foot walls, same river. You look straight into the mouth of The Narrows. You just don't step in.

Fri 23 OctZion · night IN the park✓ Lodge booked

Zion National Park Lodge ✓ Conf. 152956

Confirmation
152956 · booked 5 Aug 2026
Room
Lodge Room, 2 Queen Beds · 2 adults + 1 child
Check in
Fri 23 Oct, 4:00 PM
Check out
Sat 24 Oct, 11:00 AM
Cost
$322.00 + $38.70 tax = $360.70
Paid
$0.00 — the full $360.70 is outstanding
Address
1 Zion Lodge, Springdale, UT 84767
Front desk
833-778-9290 · same-day or to reach a guest 435-772-7700

🔑 Gate code 54143

This is the entire point of the booking. Lodge guests are the only exemption to the shuttle-season driving ban — you may drive the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive straight to the lodge while everyone else is on a bus. Use the gate code to get through.

The limit: drive to the lodge and nowhere else. No stopping at other pullouts or parking lots. Personal vehicles are barred even before and after shuttle hours — the exemption is the lodge run, not free rein.

Drive in as early as they'll let you Confirm the time by phone

Check-in is 4:00 PM, but the gate code is tied to the reservation, not the check-in time — the confirmation says lodge guests may drive to the lodge and sets no hour. If they'll let you through in the morning, take it: you get the car parked up-canyon for the whole day.

Why that matters more than it sounds. With a 3-year-old the car is a base — naps, spare clothes, the cool bag, somewhere to retreat when she's done. Everyone else is on a shuttle with whatever they can carry. You'd also skip the visitor-centre parking scrum, which fills early.

Call 833-778-9290 and ask exactly this: "I'm booked for the 23rd, confirmation 152956 — what's the earliest I can use the gate code to drive up on my arrival day, and can I park at the lodge before check-in?" Then note the answer here.

Also ask: whether the code still works on the 24th after checkout — you need to drive out, but you may not be able to drive back in once you're no longer a lodging guest.

The day Plan proposed — verify

  • Morning at the townhome: cook and pack tonight's dinner (see below), load the overnight bag. Leave the big luggage — the townhome is yours until the 27th, so take one night's worth.
  • Late morning: drive to the park, pay the $35 vehicle entry (covers all five days), then through the gate with code 54143 and park at the lodge.
  • Afternoon: Lower Emerald Pool. The trailhead is directly across from the lodge — 1.2 miles round trip, 69 ft of gain, ~1 hour, ending at a small waterfall you can walk behind. Perfect while the car is right there. Don't continue to Middle or Upper — those climb properly.
  • 4:00 PM: check in. Ask for a ground-floor room and request the $7 crib now rather than later.
  • Evening — the reason you're here. The last shuttle runs at 6:00pm and the canyon empties out. Walk out from the lodge and look up. Almost nobody on earth gets to do this.
  • Dinner: what you carried up. Reheat in the shared microwave, or eat it cold.

Quiet hours from 10:00pm. Sunset is early in late October — check the time and be back near the lodge before full dark, since there's no lighting up there and no phone signal.

🍱 Carrying dinner up — plan it, don't wing it

The lodge room has a mini-fridge and access to a shared microwave. No kitchen. Red Rock Grill is the only restaurant and is unvetted for allium; Castle Dome Café is seasonal and probably shut. Once you're up-canyon you cannot pop out. Cook it at the townhome that morning and take it.

Cook at the townhome on the 23rd

  • One-pot main in microwave-safe containers — rice or quinoa with dal, a bean stew, or pasta with a plain tomato sauce. All reheat well and are fine cold if the microwave has a queue.
  • Make it no-allium from scratch rather than trusting a jar. Jarred pasta sauce and shop hummus almost always contain garlic or onion.
  • Something Leela will definitely eat — plain pasta, bread, fruit. A 3-year-old at 7pm in an unfamiliar room is not the moment for a new food.

Buy at Sprouts on the 22nd

  • A cool bag — you need one anyway for the drive, and it's what keeps dinner safe from the townhome to the lodge.
  • Shelf-stable backups: instant oats, crackers, nut butter, a carton of oat milk, fruit, nuts.
  • Breakfast for the 24th — you'll want to be outside at first light, not hunting for food.
  • Vegan treats for the evening. It's a night in a national park; make it feel like one.

Pack cutlery, a serving spoon and a bin bag. Easy to forget when you're only going one night, and there's no shop up there beyond the gift shop.

What to know before you go up

  • Much of the park has no mobile signal. Download maps offline and tell someone your plan. Lodge Wi-Fi is satellite — join "Zion Free WiFi" — and it will be slow.
  • Two queens, not a king. It's what was available, and it's the right room anyway: Lodge Suites and King rooms are all second floor with no lift, which at 26 weeks is worth avoiding. The 2-queen Lodge Rooms have no such restriction.
  • $30/night incidental hold on a card at check-in.
  • No laundry on site — nearest is Hurricane, 27 miles.
  • Dial 0 from the room for porter help with bags. Dial 9 first for any outside number.
  • EV charging is by the cabins in the south lot.
Sat 24 OctCanyon dawn → back to SpringdalePlan proposed — verify

Dawn in the canyon, then Riverside Walk

  • First light is the other half of what you paid for. You're already up-canyon while everyone else is queuing for a shuttle in Springdale. Even ten minutes outside the lodge before breakfast is the thing people come for.
  • Riverside Walk — shuttle from stop 5 (Zion Lodge) up to stop 9, Temple of Sinawava. 2 miles round trip, 57 ft of gain, ~1 hour at adult pace — budget 2 hours with a 3-year-old. Follows the Virgin River between 1,000-ft walls.
  • It ends where The Narrows begins. Stop there — that's the turnaround.
  • Check out by 11:00 AM. Load the car before you walk, or you'll be rushing back.
  • Drive out and back to the townhome in Springdale for the afternoon.

Last shuttle today is 6:00pm — it drops to 5:00pm tomorrow.

The townhome sat empty last night. Springdale is booked 22–27, so the 23rd is paid for twice. See open questions for whether that's worth doing anything about.
Sun 25 OctZion · day 3Last shuttle 5:00pm

Pa'rus Trail & the visitor centre — the easy day

  • Deliberately gentle. Both canyon hikes are done — Lower Emerald Pool on Friday from the lodge, Riverside Walk on Saturday morning. This is the recovery day, and by day three a 3-year-old has usually had enough of hiking.
  • Pa'rus Trail — 3.5 miles end to end, 50 ft of gain, paved and the only stroller-friendly trail in the canyon. It's also the only one dogs are allowed on. Out-and-back, so do any amount and turn round.
  • It starts at the visitor centre, outside the shuttle-only road — so you can drive and park normally, no gate code needed.
  • Zion Human History Museum (shuttle stop 2) if it's cold or wet — indoors, short, with a park film.
  • Back to the townhome for a proper cooked lunch and an afternoon off.

Last shuttle drops to 5:00pm today — but Pa'rus doesn't need the shuttle, so it barely bites.

Mon 26 OctZion · day 4Deliberately open

Flex day

Left unplanned on purpose. By day four you'll know what worked. The two strongest options first:

  • 🚗 Drive the Zion–Mount Carmel Highway. No shuttle, no walking, no queue — you just drive it. Switchbacks, the 1930s tunnel, and slickrock country on the far side that looks nothing like the canyon floor. The single best thing you can do on a day when Leela has run out of hiking. Turn round whenever you like.
  • 🏔 Court of the Patriarchs (shuttle stop 4) — 0.1 mile and about a minute uphill for a full canyon view. Paved but steep. The highest payoff-per-step in the park, and easy to bolt onto anything else.

Then, in order of how gentle they are:

  • Do the favourite again. With a toddler, repeating a hit beats forcing a new thing.
  • Zion Human History Museum (shuttle stop 2) — indoors, short, and there's a park film. Good if it's cold or wet.
  • The rest of Pa'rus — whatever stretch you didn't do on Friday, on wheels this time.
  • Springdale itself — the village is walkable and flat, and it's the one day to browse it rather than drive through.
  • A genuine rest day at the townhome. You drive back to Vegas tomorrow and fly home the day after.

Last shuttle 5:00pm. Also: pack tonight — checkout is 10:00am sharp.

Tue 27 OctSpringdale → Las Vegas · night 2

Drive back ✓ Verified 2 Aug

  • Checkout is 10:00 AM Mountain — a hard time, not a suggestion. Pack the night before.
  • 2 hr 33, 162 miles back down I-15. Leave 10:00am Mountain → Vegas ~11:35am Pacific (the hour comes back).
  • Fill the tank in Hurricane on the way out, 29 min in. It's the last cheap fuel and you're returning the car.
  • Check-in at the Signature is 3:00 PM, so you'll arrive well before. Leave bags at the desk and eat.

The Signature at MGM Grand ✓ Booked

Itinerary
Delta Stays 73512107767292
Room
Deluxe Balcony Suite · 1 King + queen sofa bed · 550 sq ft · non-smoking · sleeps 4, crib permitted
Times
Check-in 3:00 PM · check-out 11 AM · min. age 21
Paid to Delta
$379.23
At property
$56.69 resort fee
Total
$435.92
Cancel by
Sat 24 Oct, 12:01am — free. After that, 100% penalty.
Address
145 E Harmon Ave · (702) 797-6000
  • Complimentary valet parking and EV charging — no parking cost.
  • Smoke-free, non-gaming tower, built 2006. Quiet floor for Leela.
  • Marble bath: separate tub and shower, oversized whirlpool tub, double vanities.
  • Stovetop, microwave, dish supplies. No fridge listed — ask at check-in.
  • $100/day card authorisation at check-in, released after checkout.
  • Earns up to 1,338 SkyMiles.

Solo evening

  • No rideshare. MGM Grand's casino is a 7-minute walk Delta's figure, unverified
  • Park MGM — the Strip's only fully smoke-free casino and its only smoke-free craps table ($15, 3-4-5x odds). Reachable on foot; verify the route before relying on it.
  • No show booked — the evening is gambling only.

Blackjack: insist on 3:2. A low minimum almost always signals 6:5, which triples the house edge (~1.9% vs ~0.5%).

Wed 28 OctHome
  • DL333 · LAS 9:59am → JFK 6:12pm. At the airport by ~8:00am.
  • Checkout is 11 AM but the flight is earlier, so it doesn't bind.
  • Open: whether the car goes back on the 27th (with a solo round-trip Uber) or is kept overnight and dropped at LAS this morning. See open questions.
  • Build a lounge plan — Delta Sky Club, Priority Pass via CSR (2 members + 4 guests), Centurion, Capital One.

Lodging

NightPropertyRoomAll-inCancel by
Wed 21The Venetian
5.0★ · 9.2/10		Luxury Room, 1 King$205.44
+$20 parking		18 Oct
Thu 22 – Mon 26Springdale Townhome 1
Vrbo HA-82L7C8		2.5 baths, full kitchen
in 3pm · out 10am		$3,078.56
$1,156.84 due 7 Oct		100% to 8 Oct
50% to 15 Oct
Fri 23
inside the park		Zion National Park Lodge
conf. 152956 · gate code 54143		Lodge Room, 2 Queens
in 4pm · out 11am		$360.70
unpaid		7 days out
= 16 Oct
Tue 27Signature at MGM Grand
4.5★ · 9.0/10		Deluxe Balcony Suite, King + sofa$435.9224 Oct

Why not the obvious ones

  • Park MGM / The Reserve — every King sold out on 27 Oct, and the Kings are Sleeps 2 regardless.
  • Marriott's Grand Chateau — the $258 rate is a studio; the real 1-bedroom villa is $371, and refundable costs $464. Only 3.5-star.
  • Jockey Club — $192 and three minutes from Bellagio, but 3.5-star, four different management companies renting individually owned units, and the door could never be confirmed.
  • Bonvoy points — every Strip property redeems at 0.42–0.56¢ against a 0.7–0.85¢ baseline. Pay cash.

Full reasoning in BRIEF.md.

Car & driving

Vendor
Avis, LAS Rent-A-Car Center — President's Club
Pick up
Wed 21 Oct, ~3pm, after the shuttle
Drop off
Tue 27 Oct under review — see open questions
Location
7135 Gilespie St · open 24 hours
Shuttle
T1 doors 10–11 · T3 doors 51–54 · every ~5 min · ~7 min ride
  • Never Budget, especially at airports.
  • Spouse is a free additional driver in Nevada — not a differentiator between brands.
  • Plan a gas stop before the return leg.
  • Carrying Leela's own car seat — no rental seat needed.

Food

The rule. Adithya is strict vegan and Jain: no meat, dairy, egg or honey, and no onion, garlic, leek, chive, scallion or shallot, and no mushroom. Vatsala and Leela are ordinary vegetarians. Never pick a place on cuisine alone — vet vegan, allium and open-on-the-day separately, and prefer fully plant-based kitchens so only allium needs confirming.

To call before the trip

Ask the question the cuisine demands: for Italian it's the sauce base and the stock; for a juice bar it's the savoury blends and dressings.

Springdale — candidates, none vetted yet Call before you rely on any

These appear in current vegan guides and are open. Not one has been checked for allium, so treat every row as a lead, not a plan. Ask specifically about the sauce base and the stock — that's where onion and garlic hide.

PlaceAddressHoursPhone
MeMe's Cafe
Crêpes; breakfast all day		975 Zion Park BlvdDaily 8am–9pm(435) 772-0114
Whiptail Grill
Mexican; allium risk is high in salsa		445 Zion Park BlvdDaily 11:30am–9:30pm(435) 772-0283
Park House Cafe
Vegetarian-leaning, vegan options		1880 Zion Park BlvdMon–Fri 8am–2pm
closed Sat & Sun		(435) 772-0100

Park House is shut on your Saturday and Sunday — only Fri 23 and Mon 26 work.

Cafe Soleil is permanently closed — it still appears in several vegan guides for Zion. Don't plan around it.

Self-catering — the actual strategy

Springdale has three viable restaurants and none is allium-confirmed. The kitchen is the plan; restaurants are the bonus.

  • Springdale townhome — full kitchen. Buy five days of breakfasts and lunches at Sprouts in St. George on the way in (see Thu 22) — organic, properly labelled, and far better stocked than anything closer to the park.
  • Pack lunches into the canyon. There is one restaurant up there (Zion Lodge) and you can't easily leave and come back — the shuttle round trip is 40+ minutes.
  • Signature — stovetop, microwave, no fridge listed.
  • Venetian — no kitchen.

📍 Addresses & numbers

PlaceAddressPhone
The Venetian3355 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas NV 89109(888) 283-6423
Signature at MGM Grand145 E Harmon Ave, Las Vegas NV 89109(702) 797-6000
LAS Rent-A-Car Center7135 Gilespie St, Las Vegas NV 89119—
Springdale Townhome 1Address released 3 days before arrival — Vrbo HA-82L7C8via Vrbo app
FeelLove Coffee (drive stop 1)558 E Riverside Dr #208, St. George UT(435) 922-1717
Sprouts Farmers Market (drive stop 2 — the shop)1525 S River Rd Unit 1, St. George UT 84790(435) 301-0739
Lin's Market (drive stop 3 — top-up)1120 W State St, Hurricane UT 84737(435) 635-4477
Zion Visitor CenterZion Canyon Visitor Center, Springdale UT(435) 772-3256
MeMe's Cafe975 Zion Park Blvd, Springdale UT(435) 772-0114
Whiptail Grill445 Zion Park Blvd, Springdale UT(435) 772-0283
Zion National Park Lodge conf. 152956 · gate 541431 Zion Lodge, Springdale UT 84767833-778-9290
same-day 435-772-7700
Zion Canyon Medical Clinic SpringdaleNearest medical facility435-772-3226
Park emergency daylight hoursZion NP Emergency Dispatch — after hours dial 911435-772-3322
Park MGM3770 S Las Vegas Blvd(702) 730-7777
Delta Stays supportItinerary 73512107767292(866) 202-1813

Springdale townhome address to be added from the VRBO confirmation.