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dverstra
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Dec 27, 2013

Help plan our week in Moab, UT

This will be our first trip to the Moab area. My wife and I and our 2 Corgis will be spending 7 days in Moab in mid September. We are not quite retirement age (62) and enjoy short walks or scenic drives with or without the puppies. A scenic drive with a jeep rental sounds fun. Nothing too crazy! Maybe a half day tour with a jeep tour operator. Jet boat on the Colorado? Places to drive to with our Honda CRV Toad? Scenic Float trip on the river? What tour and rental companies have you had good service from?
  • To repeat what I posted in your thread from October -

    "While in the Moab area, don't miss Dead Horse Point State park and the Island in the Sky portions of Canyonlands National Park. Amazing views! Also the drive on UT 128 follows the Colorado River through a canyon that gives a feel for what being at the bottom of the Grand Canyon would look like. Coming from the east on I70, you could take route 128 to Moab, rather than route 191."

    To add to the above, all of the viewpoints in Canyonlands are great, but don't miss Grandview Point. Upheaval Dome was also interesting. A short, but uphill hike to get there. Dead Horse Point State Park is a don't miss. In Arches, it's about 1/4 mile hike to stand under Double Arch, about a mile hike to Landscape Arch, which looks like it must fall at any second. Balanced Rock is a short stroll from the parking area.

    At age 62 you can get the Senior Pass for free entrance to all National parks and half price camping.
  • I guess that I was asking for personal favorite places to visit in the Moab area. I could probably spend a month there and not see it all.
  • it is a wonderful area just enter moab in the search section above and you will have reading till you are ready to leave
  • You could search this forum for `Moab' and read on and on. Or do a Google search for `what to do in Moab' or `Moab tourism'.
    There is a winery just up the road that has a cowboy movie museum and it is where the Commancheros was filmed.

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