City of Rocks is a National Reserve in southern Idaho run by the National Park service. The name comes from the wagon trains of emigrants in the 1840s and 1850s on their way to California. They described the rocks here in vivid detail as “a city of tall spires,” “steeple rocks,” and “the silent city.” […]
We took a spring trip to Moab the last week in March. There are a series of primitive BLM campgrounds along the Colorado River, near Moab. I say primitive because there are no hookups and no water; they provide a firepit, a picnic table, and pit toilets. They do not take reservations, and are first
We camped at Zion National Park for three nights the second weekend in October. Zion is extremely popular, and we booked our campsites exactly four months before the trip. (Reservations have a four month window). On our drive to Zion we hit torrential rain, with threats of snow, but by the time we arrived at
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We spent three nights camping in Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, which is just outside of the town of Escalante, UT. This is on Utah Highway 12, a well known Scenic Byway that goes past Bryce Canyon National Park, Kodachrome Basin State Park, Escalante, Boulder, to Torrey, the gateway to Capitol Reef National Park. Escalante is
Last winter we were planning our camping adventures for the year; you need to plan in advance because the reservations fill up for many state park campgrounds quickly. We like to camp in Southern Utah, but it is too hot there in the summer. So I asked Susan where would you like to camp this
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You probably have questions. What is a trailer rally? Why would you go to one? Why in Alabama? All in good time. Before we bought our travel trailer, I did a lot of research on the web. One place I still use is a the Fiberglass RV Forum. I saw a post there in November 2016 by
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Read my Valley of the Gods post first. After Valley of the Gods, we next camped at Gouldings, a very nice but rather expensive commercial RV park that is close to Monument Valley. My major complaint was that the campsites were rather close together, but that is common in commercial places. The restrooms were clean, and
We first camped at Valley of the Gods. This is BLM land, which means the camping is free, and that there are no amenities. No restrooms, no picnic tables. Based on my online research, I had the GPS coordinates for a primo campsite about 7.5 miles in on the dirt road. While we saw decent
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