BLM Campgrounds in UT
Do the BLM campgrounds around Moab fill this time of year? noticed Dead Horse Pt SP is filled. Do these close in the winter? This is for future use, not this year. Forget it, found the info online....
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BarryG20 wrote:
Utah is becoming if not already a victim of its own beauty. 30 years ago I could go out there and not see anyone for days in the back country if at all or get a hotel in Moab or any other small town, camping spot no problem day of arrival. Now you darn near need to plan 6 months in advance and the place is crawling with people from all over the world. Doesn't keep me away but I do long for the Utah of a few decades ago, undiscovered by most. I certainly understand why people want to go out there and experience it as I do. I just wish the masses would care for the place. Litter, dog poo on trails, dogs in prehistoric ruins, vandalism, disregard for the locals, and a seemingly total disregard for proper etiquette for other people. While the previous statement obviously doesn't apply to all people or dogs for that matter it applies to enough of them that it is causing the de-beautification (I seriously doubt that is even a word) of the place. Sorry for the rant there you asked a simple question and got my worthless words instead.
Welcome to one of the downsides of The Information Age. People swarm all over certain Utah camping areas now because it's so easy for them to find out about them.
We're rockhounds, so we have to often go to places in Utah (and other Western states) that the crowds don't know about ... but some of those spots are as pristine and quiet as the places the crowds know about.
The proliferation of trail bike use, ATV use, and other high tech outdoor equipment use is also cause for much of the swarming in Utah and everywhere else in the great U.S. outdoors.
P.S. .... and to think I was stationed in Utah back in the sixties and visited very little of it's parks back then. :(
