Fisher TowersOur adventure today takes us on a driving tour of the Upper Colorado River Scenic Byway along SR 128. Just north of Moab on HWY 191 we turn off onto SR 128 and follow the southern bank of the Colorado River through a narrow steep gorge. Looking through the roof of the jeep up…
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Dead Horse Point SP and Canyonlands NP
We left Durango yesterday in the rain and arrived at the KOA in Moab where we will be staying for a week. Today we are going to explore Canyonlands National Park and on the way we stopped to see Dead Horse Point State Park, situated on a high plateau at an elevation of about 6,000…
Lake Powell and Rainbow Bridge
We saved the best for today a cruise on Lake Powell to the Rainbow Bridge Natural Arch. Lake Powell, named after John Wesley Powell, is 186 miles long and backs up into more than 96 major side canyons, and is the second-largest man-made lake in the US. Today we are going to take the cruise…
Grand Staircase Escalante and Bryce Canyon
Grand Staircase-Escalante Today we decided to take a road trip, a 200 mile loop, beginning at the Cottonwood Canyon 4-wheel drive road off of Highway 89. We entered the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and drove 25 miles along the wide dirt road until we reached the South Cottonwood Narrow Canyon entrance. The hike was…
Monument Valley, Utah
We left our campsite at 8:30am to drive to Monument Valley in Utah to take a private tour with a Navajo Guide, Don Mose. We met Don at the Hogan Village, the sun-baked mud covered homes are called Hogan, at 12 noon to begin the valley drive and back country dirt road for our 3…
Heber City, Utah
Monday, August 25th, we left Rock Springs and continued heading west to Heber City, Utah. We stayed at the beautiful, new Mountain Valley RV Resort just south of town, for four nights. Our first excursion was to visit the Sundance Ski Resort, founded by Robert Redford in 1969, 5,000 acres on the slopes of Mount…
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
Sunday, Aug. 24th, we left the AB Campground RV Park in Cheyenne, WY, and headed toward Rock Springs, WY. We arrived early in the afternoon at the KOA Campground and decided to do some sight seeing in the area. We were told that The Flaming Gorge Recreational Area, “fishing hot spot” of America, comprises 201,000…