Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: George.Anthony Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel Subject: Re: Utah Day 1 Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 00:17:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 73 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 02:17:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="030fb6b046dea8b19b026a14334343fd"; logging-data="3316518"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186lW+6OpTxlfo21j12Wp153r8RM3GC9oA=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uupjy8QZ4USPhkdMgc3LwgteYEw= sha1:WtIV7U5d+bJoP3QFFzZP4wX1mCM= sticks wrote: > We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of Cannonville, UT > at an RJourney park. I believe these RJourney parks used to be KOA > places, but I'm not entirely sure. It's right on Utah 12 and is only a > 10 minute drive or so to Bryce Canyon. I thought the place was just > fine. Reasonably priced, with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and > firewood available. > > The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet service > they had. It’s actually wi-fi service (I’m sure you know) and you’ll be hard pressed to find an RV park with decent wi-fi. Even the ones with a fee aren’t anything to write home about. I've had similar things happen in hotels with an older laptop > I have, but it just would not connect my laptop. I contacted their > support and they were unable to assign my MAC address for some reason or > another they couldn't explain. So I could not use the laptop, wife > could not get her Android to hook up, and I had to log back in with a > new Iphone ever 5 minutes or so. The hook up to the network was just > fine, but the damn provider they had with the ridiculous sign on to get > to the internet was horrible. Trying to plan routes and do all the > things we take for granted these days become very apparent when you > can't get on the internet. Oh well. Here's a few pics of the little > campground. > > > > > > > > Night time temps were a little warmer than our previous nights. It was > around 38-40F or lows, and quickly warmed up in the morning. I watched > the sun rise over the hill each morning and really enjoyed that. We > did have to run the heater every night we were on the trip, used the gas > for hot water and taking showers, and cooked on the weber grill. I was > amazed that I managed the whole trip, even with having to have the heat > on, without having to refill the tank and am just above 1/4 on the LP > tank level. Seemed very efficient to me for 15 nights of heat. > > After three days of driving and acclimating to the elevation, we decided > the first day to take a nice easy hike. We were both ready to move and > do some walking. We headed to Bryce Canyon just up the road and did the > Queens Garden/Navajo Loop hike. This is probably the most popular of > all the hikes in Bryce because it only has about 600 feet of climb and > is just shy of 3.5 miles in length. Unfortunately, that means you will > most likely have plenty of company. As we were so early in the season, > it wasn't overcrowded, but the 80F temps did bring out many people. > The trail shows a little of everything Bryce is famous for... > > > > And on this trail everyone talks about the small section of switchbacks > > > > Which were really not much to worry about. Still, the knee swelled up a > bit and we decided we'd do a day of hiking, and then a day of > off-roading from then on and hope I could keep up. Fortunately, my wife > coddled me for the rest of the hiking. > > Here's the track of the loop we did. > > > > It was a great start at seeing the area again and the weather was perfect! > > Nicereport and photos. As has been said here, it’s hard to not find beauty in Utah.