We live on the east coast , and want to visit tombstone AZ, the Grand Canyon AZ, and Monument Valley UT. Is this doable in one trip? This would be when we purchase our Class C motorhome. As far as time restraints, it would be a 2 - 3 week trip at the most. I'm not opposed to driving in shifts to get out there.

doable until i saw the 2/3 weeks. and you are missing most of the "good" spots.bumpy

It can of course be done. You can do the math on miles per day you want to tackle on the way there and back. I would opt to plan on using the full three weeks. 1/3 time to get there, 1/3 time there, 1/3 time to get back. There are a lot of blanks spaces in your map you could fill in and make the trip more than seeing how many miles can I do before I drop. There's a lot to see and enjoy.

Of course it is doable. You said you are willing to drive in shifts. If you don't care about comfort and safety, then driving 24/7 with alternate drivers sleeping in the bed, then you will be there in no time, leaving about 2 weeks to explore your destination.But why? You will be missing so much in between, and you will be uncomfortable getting there and back. My advice, stop and smell the roses.

At my RV driving pace (9 AM to 4 PM, medium speeds, 15 minutes stop every two hours) and just those three destinations, this trip (5700 miles) would be 14 days driving, so for three weeks would allow about a week's worth of sightseeing stops.One of the problems might be that the routing will take you past other places you might want to stop: Arches and Canyonlands NP, Colorado National Monument, Rocky Mountain NP, to say nothing of all the places you could visit on the Plains and in the Midwest (e.g. the RV Museum in Elkhart, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Living History Farms, or St Louis Arch).If you skip the Tombstone experience, you could save about 350 miles and a day of driving. If Tombstone is a "must see" I would route through Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, and El Paso but that just adds more places on the way that you really should stop and see :(For only the particular western destinations you list, I would fly to Las Vegas, and rent, because you would not have time to enjoy anything enroute, and the fuel costs alone for moving a C from Rhode Island to Tombstone and back are going to be something like $2700 to $3000. You've then got two weeks for touring, enough the make a loop of the parks in southern Utah and northern Arizona.I don't usually recommend flying over the middle of the country, because there is a lot to see, crossing it hundreds of times I still find more new and interesting places, but if you won't have the time to stop and the only things you want to see are at the far end of the trip, road tripping becomes quite tedious.

Thanks for the replies, those three attractions are the "must see" things for now. If we live long enough to see retirement, then we can take the time and fill in the blanks. The most embarrassing thing is I lived in california for 28 years and never went to any of these places..... :(

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I_am_still_wayn
Explorer
Feb 12, 2014
Of course it is doable. You said you are willing to drive in shifts. If you don't care about comfort and safety, then driving 24/7 with alternate drivers sleeping in the bed, then you will be there in no time, leaving about 2 weeks to explore your destination.

But why? You will be missing so much in between, and you will be uncomfortable getting there and back. My advice, stop and smell the roses.
wildtoad
Explorer II
Feb 12, 2014
It can of course be done. You can do the math on miles per day you want to tackle on the way there and back. I would opt to plan on using the full three weeks. 1/3 time to get there, 1/3 time there, 1/3 time to get back. There are a lot of blanks spaces in your map you could fill in and make the trip more than seeing how many miles can I do before I drop. There's a lot to see and enjoy.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Feb 12, 2014
doable until i saw the 2/3 weeks. and you are missing most of the "good" spots.
bumpy

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