Re: Utah Day 1

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 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.

 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.

 

  The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet
  service they had.

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I keep active on my cell phone plan an option to use it as a
hotspot for just this reason.  It's not optimal, but better than
nothing if I need to plan routes (car or bike), campgrounds, or
activities.  My Acadia came with a data plan, so I can use it as a
hotspot if my phone isn't getting enough signal (two different
carriers).

I had hoped we'd have enough service to do that as it's worked just fine in the past.  Unfortunately, Cannonville was absolutely no phone service at all from my carrier.  Just up the road I had good 5G, but nothing where we stayed.

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.
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