Monument Valley Utah

monkey44 wrote:
Climbing up out of the valley once, we face 2 face with a large Class C coming down, and the driver was stuck in a hairpin, ...

I'm curious - what valley were you coming up out of?

We been on the "not recommended for RVs" valley floor road in our Class C, but got to it using the road that goes down/up by the Visitors Center and there's no hairpins in that road - just a tipped, somewhat steep, and deeply rutted surface.

If you really want to investigate using your 4X4 TC in beautiful desert country, plug "Dubinky Well Road" into Google Earth and Google-Earth-drive all over out there on the desert roads. Click on all the photo icons out in the middle of nowhere to see pictures folks have taken of fantastic desert scenery and places. The Google Earth mapping of that whole area is now in high resolution, so it's very realistic and you can just about see the road types and conditions by zooming way in on any particular road.

We've been part way out there - not quite to the Dubinky Well itself - in our small Class C and may eventually go out further looking for more rocks. Although we don't have 4WD in our E450 Class C, it's not much longer than a TC so we can travel (in dry weather) slow and easy to get into many interesting boondock places with all the comforts of home once we get there. :)