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From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel
Subject: Re: Utah Day 1
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 14:00:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 8 May 2025 15:44:38 -0500,
  sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
>  On 5/8/2025 8:35 AM, Ted Heise wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 May 2025 17:04:46 -0500,
> >    sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
> >>   We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of
> >>   Cannonville, UT at an RJourney park...

> > I'm curious if you intentionally passed on camping at 
> > Kodachrome St Park?  It is maybe close to 30 minutes beyond 
> > the highway, so that could sure be a factor.
> 
>  Funny you mention that.  Our next hiking day was to Kodachrome.  
>  We checked out all the camping spots there that day.  We didn't 
>  look into it when we were deciding where to stay, but one of 
>  the controlling factors for us was access to water.  We were in 
>  early April, and lots of places just did not have it turned on 
>  yet.  None that were in Colorado near the border did until May 
>  1.  We saw the RJourney place, liked the looks of it, fees were 
>  good, and they had heated water lines.  I didn't have a heated 
>  hose with, so for the first two nights we just used the tank.  
>  It warmed up after that enough I could stay hooked up.
> 
>  Trying not to spoil my report, I will say that we were 
>  completely impressed with not only this state park, but their 
>  camping spots looked fantastic.  Yeah, some were a little close 
>  to the thru drive, but they all had plenty of room, apart from 
>  each other, and most had shade of some sort.  It looked like a 
>  real good place to stay if you could get reservations.  I got a 
>  feeling the sites that take reservations must fill up in a 
>  hurry.  The place had lots of people there when we looked at it 
>  in early April.

We stayed at Kodachrome in mid March last year, and the place was 
quite a lot less than half full.  The dates were Mar 16-19, so 
even over a weekend.  Like you said, most of the spots there are 
nicely separated from others.  Water was on then, though we did 
have our hose freeze one night.

At any rate, I highly recommend that place, though it sounds like 
you had a good place as well.  Definitely being not so far off the 
highway is a plus for getting to other things.


> > I'm a little jealous of your visit to the Escalante Grand 
> > Staircase.  That's very much on my list, but we didn't have 
> > time to see much of it when we were there a year ago.  We did 
> > get distant views from Bryce and Kodachrome, but distant.
> > 
> > Thanks for the reports and the pics!
> 
>  We went back to the Staircase in the next day report coming for 
>  more off-roading.  The route we took I would have to say that 
>  if you could only do one drive out there, this one would be it.  
>  A little bit of everything, and an all day affair.  I don't 
>  think you could do this one in the Acadia, but I was shocked at 
>  times to see how far people got in with cars and even people 
>  pulling campers.  I thought of Bill many times on the trip when 
>  I would see boondockers.  I got a feeling some of them had to 
>  be towed out.

Good to know.  We tried the "road" to Grosvenor Arch in the 
Acadia, and got maybe 3/4 of the way there before I chickened out 
and turned back.  The car did pretty well, but there were narrow 
hill stretches that could have been a problem if we'd encountered 
any oncoming traffic,  What finally stopped me was a pretty wet, 
muddy stretch that looked high risk for getting stuck--especially 
if we'd had to stop for anything.

-- 
Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA