Best Route From Santa Fe, NM to Kaneb, UT
We are currently at an RV park outside Santa Fe & plan to leave tomorrow with a week to spend between here & Kanab, UT. We had planned to stay in Gallup, Tuba City & Page on the way, but recently read...
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First...every city has crime, even your hometown I would imagine, and the Gallop RV parks along the interstate would be no worry.
However, interstates are boring especially I-40 west.
It might be too late but if you have a week to use up I would have recommended from Santa Fe to head north on Hwy 84 (the painters' Georgia O'Keefe inspiration route) to Colorado 160 - stop in Pagosa Springs for an awesome soak in their immaculate pools overlooking the river, and then take that west to Durango and Cortez (Mesa Verde Nat'l Park and do a ranger tour).
Then take Hwy 160 to 162 into Bluff, Utah and south on 163 to Monument Valley. Stay at Gouldings - the only RV park and take a couple-hour tour of Monument Valley.
Then 160 to Page and on to Kanab. In Kanab is Best Friends Animal Sanctuary a no-kill facility. It well worth a stop and possibly a tour of this awesome place in a gorgeous setting.
Now about the North Rim of Grand Canyon.... check out this site for area fires (for any state) and you'll see one on the east side of the highway to the North Rim. There might be a smoke issue.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4782/
If you take I-40 west Flagstaff has a few nice places - Sunset Crater Volcano Nat' Monument and a half-circle drive to Wupatki Nat'l Monument Indian ruins. Bonito national forest campground at the entrance booth of Sunset Crater is a lovely place to stay - no reservations and you're very likely to get a site if you can get there early afternoon. There's also Walnut Canyon Nat'l Monument and perhaps a chairlift ride up the ski hill of Arizona Snowbowl. You would also be close to Sedona, Arizona for some gorgeous hiking. We like to stay in nearby Cottonwood to tour Sedona. We stay at Dead Horse Ranch State Park. There are also more Indian ruins in this area - Tuzigoot Nat'l Monument and Montezuma Castle Nat'l Monument.
That should keep you busy! :)
However, interstates are boring especially I-40 west.
It might be too late but if you have a week to use up I would have recommended from Santa Fe to head north on Hwy 84 (the painters' Georgia O'Keefe inspiration route) to Colorado 160 - stop in Pagosa Springs for an awesome soak in their immaculate pools overlooking the river, and then take that west to Durango and Cortez (Mesa Verde Nat'l Park and do a ranger tour).
Then take Hwy 160 to 162 into Bluff, Utah and south on 163 to Monument Valley. Stay at Gouldings - the only RV park and take a couple-hour tour of Monument Valley.
Then 160 to Page and on to Kanab. In Kanab is Best Friends Animal Sanctuary a no-kill facility. It well worth a stop and possibly a tour of this awesome place in a gorgeous setting.
Now about the North Rim of Grand Canyon.... check out this site for area fires (for any state) and you'll see one on the east side of the highway to the North Rim. There might be a smoke issue.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4782/
If you take I-40 west Flagstaff has a few nice places - Sunset Crater Volcano Nat' Monument and a half-circle drive to Wupatki Nat'l Monument Indian ruins. Bonito national forest campground at the entrance booth of Sunset Crater is a lovely place to stay - no reservations and you're very likely to get a site if you can get there early afternoon. There's also Walnut Canyon Nat'l Monument and perhaps a chairlift ride up the ski hill of Arizona Snowbowl. You would also be close to Sedona, Arizona for some gorgeous hiking. We like to stay in nearby Cottonwood to tour Sedona. We stay at Dead Horse Ranch State Park. There are also more Indian ruins in this area - Tuzigoot Nat'l Monument and Montezuma Castle Nat'l Monument.
That should keep you busy! :)
