Summer trip to Antelope Can and Escalante?
Hi Folks, Planning a summer vacation - likely first 2 weeks of august. We live in souther Arizona, and I was thinking of Antelope and Escalante. What does everyone think? We've been to all the Utah...
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steveandjil wrote:
One other option is the only major Natnl park I've not been to in the west - Rocky Mountain. Any comments here?
Steve
As previously noted, if you want to see RMNP, stay on the west/quiet side of the park. You can always take your Jeep and explore Trail Ridge Road and go down toward the Fall River entrance and take the Old Fall River Road back up to Trail Ridge at the Alpine Visitors Center. In a Jeep, this would be a really fun trip. Gravel road with lots of hairpin turns, but folks do it all the time...in sedans. Just more fun in an open air vehicle.
There's Timber Creek CG inside the park, it's first come/first serve for all sites, and I've never seen it full. There's 2 commercial resorts in the Grand Lake area, plus about a half dozen USFS CGs in the general area of Grand Lake/Lake Granby/Shadow Mountain Res. There's also the YMCA facility at Snow Mountain between Granby and Fraser, it's got a wonderful campground there.
Not much in the way of 4x4 trails in the immediate area of Rocky, but there are some good albeit longer hiking trails than what is found on the eastern side. Of note is the trail along the Colorado River to the Lulu City site (which is not much more than a brook at this location), and the hike along the Grand Ditch.
