Monument Valley Utah

ReneeG wrote:
Mogi Dugway video

Be nice if it was spelt correctly. It is Mokie


Gary Haupt

garyhaupt wrote:

SuzzeeeQ2012 wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
They take 18 wheelers up and down the Mokie. I guess they just know that many RV drivers are less *comfrotable* doing the hill. All the cryin and yellin coming from the other seat.


Gary Haupt

that, and the wide eyes and heaving gasping sound lol


(not that I did that today, or anything :o :o :o

Cool ride, tho eh....


Gary Haupt

lol yeah lol

We drove up hill with a 250 ford with truck camper. Told DW if ever back this way will do it again, A few years later drove down hill with a 24FT. class C. Did not have any problems either time. The views are great.
Bill

garyhaupt wrote:
The deal with VOG is getting thru a wash that has that steep angle of departure and dragging the rear of yours over it and perhaps getting hung up. There are only a couple, but..you only need one, eh...

Thanks Gary for the additional detail on VOG travel.

So far I've been able to handle washes pretty good by just using the transverse angle method. It also helps a bit that the back of our Class C sets up perky due to spring under-loading, my tires are over stock diameter, and the coach sidewalls angle upward from the rear duals in a straight line right up to rear bumper height - IAW no dangling rear wall edges to get scraped. All tanks and drains are well up out of the way. About the only thing low back there is the hitch, which sticks out just below the high-up bumper.

FWIW, I just Google Earth traveled the Moki Dugway a bit today and the road doesn't really look that bad at all - nothing like the roads in the Colorado High Country that prospectors travel on to mine quartz. You gotta love those latest high resolution GE maps.

The photos along the GE map routes that folks post are absolutely outstanding. I capture the best of them, Photoshop them a bit, and then use them for screen savers to keep my travel bug wiggling.

SuzzeeeQ2012 wrote:

garyhaupt wrote:
They take 18 wheelers up and down the Mokie. I guess they just know that many RV drivers are less *comfrotable* doing the hill. All the cryin and yellin coming from the other seat.


Gary Haupt

that, and the wide eyes and heaving gasping sound lol


(not that I did that today, or anything :o :o :o

Cool ride, tho eh....


Gary Haupt

pnichols wrote:
Well ... my E450 Class C is 24 feet, so maybe we could use the Mokie Dugway if we had to and if the DW (passenger) could take it. I'm more concerned about small vehicles not being able to get around us (101 inches wide) on roads like this. Is it wide enough, or are there pullouts on it for vehicles to pass each other?
:h

Phil..I have driven the Dugway maybe 1/2 dozen times. There are issues..yes, it looks like there would be more, but nope. If I were driving it today and were to meet another RV or semi, I would pull over as far to the right as I could, stop, 4 ways on. Why? So that now I just let the other person figure out what they are going to do. The only time a semi has a problem is on the corners, so..if there is one on-coming stop..or back up if needs be. There are no pull-outs, as such.

There is a fabulous pull off about 1/4 way down..on the inside..park and walk around the rock face. Just be careful of snakes.

The deal with VOG is getting thru a wash that has that steep angle of departure and dragging the rear of yours over it and perhaps getting hung up. There are only a couple, but..you only need one, eh...


Gary Haupt

garyhaupt wrote:
They take 18 wheelers up and down the Mokie. I guess they just know that many RV drivers are less *comfrotable* doing the hill. All the cryin and yellin coming from the other seat.


Gary Haupt

that, and the wide eyes and heaving gasping sound lol


(not that I did that today, or anything :o :o :o

Well, we're in Cameron Arizona....NO boondocking that I can tell :(


they have an RV Park for $24/night/full hookups. I want to stay there, husband wants free *thumps head* wants to go back and park in the pull out on the highway he saw. I don't want noise all night lol

will keep you posted where we end up lol

monkey44 wrote:

pnichols wrote:
Well ... my E450 Class C is 24 feet, so maybe we could use the Mokie Dugway if we had to and if the DW (passenger) could take it. I'm more concerned about small vehicles not being able to get around us (101 inches wide) on roads like this. Is it wide enough, or are there pullouts on it for vehicles to pass each other?

However, isn't there another easy way in and out of the VOG area? The DW was navigating three years ago when we were in the area and we almost went to the VOG, but she didn't mention anything about the map (Landmark Utah atlas) showing a steep, twisty road being involved. :h

Nope, not that I know of -- only back-tracking and longer and out of the way - if you stay on pavement - not straight thru to anywhere unless you go up the Mokie Dugway (well, or down it, depending) ... But if you fit, it is an amazing visual -- and Valley of the Gods is worth every bit of that drive, no matter how you do it.

NOTE: I'm not positive if any dirt/gravel back country roads lead out a different direction. I'm pretty sure NO tho'... We're heading that way again this year ... and that might be interesting to investigate ... so will do that in the Fall...

Much of it is narrow, but there are places where one can pass another as long as both are not wide-guys ... We passed (scared out of his mind driver) Class C coming down as we were going up, and we are eight feet wide ... The switch-back part of it is not very long, not miles of it, it's relatively short and steep.

It reminds me of parts of White Rim Trail in Canyonlands ... altho' WRT is 110 miles long ... but much of it is pretty flat and easy to drive - some parts really pop your eyes open tho' ... and test your driving skills and nerves. It's not for amateurs ...

Heck Yeah!

The east entrance is right off the main highway north out of Monument Valley, just a couple of miles north of Mexican Hat. Not well marked, but it is there. Then the West entrance to the Valley of the Gods is on the way to the bottom of the Moki Dugway. Just north of the junction of the highway that goes to Gooseneck State Park, overlooking the San Juan River. Both of these entrance points are paved and easily accessed.

But, But, once you drive off the pavement onto the Valley of the Gods Road it is entirely different, as has been described many times earlier in this thread.

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