Grand Canyon star Party

My favorite too.

Here's to clear dark skies -- good luck!

As a amateur Astronomer I wish I could be there. One day One day I will !!!!

RWDIII wrote:
Stayed home on Memorial Day.
thought about going to the Star Party at the grand canyon,Campground is full so will camp at my favorite space on FR 302 East of Tusayan

Morning!

Is free dispersed camping allowed in that area? I'm from Tucson but have never camped in the Kaibab National Forest. How's that area off of FR 302?

Rudy

Dang.. don't give away the best spots! :)

Rudy, just cruise around on Google Earth and check it out. You will see pullouts! Don't forget to try different years -- some of the photos are in the winter, some are on weekdays. The photos taken on weekends are pretty useful -- you can see which spots are "big rig" friendly, and which are not, just by the types of rigs in the image.

For those of us old enough to remember the days before the internet, it is mind-boggling that I can sit in my living room and fly around the forests, traveling from year to year, looking for campsites.

Someone PMd me and asked how I could tell which shots were taken on the weekend and which were not. I wish I could say "just count the beer bottles." But really, the date is in the corner of each image, and you just Google the date, and it will tell you the day of the week.

What I want to know is how you get images for different days, beyond the default.

Is this just not available on the phone app?

RFV wrote:

RWDIII wrote:
Stayed home on Memorial Day.
thought about going to the Star Party at the grand canyon,Campground is full so will camp at my favorite space on FR 302 East of Tusayan

Morning!

Is free dispersed camping allowed in that area? I'm from Tucson but have never camped in the Kaibab National Forest. How's that area off of FR 302?

Rudy

Lots of spots,but if it rains,you will need 4x4

Naio, I don't know if the previous years' images are available on the phone version of Google Earth. They are certainly on the full-size version, for laptops and desktops. But here is an embarrassing confession -- I don't really know how to use my cellphone. I can make calls, but that is about it. (I grew up in the days of rotary dial landlines, hard-wired to the wall. I can't get my rapidly-aging head around the notion that this little wafer in my pocket is really a computer.)