Trip Report: The Perfect Family Trip!
EDIT: I wanted to add this link here at the beginning. Ragusa's Summer 2014 Trailer Hello friends! We have been home for two months, but I am just now feeling like getting to the trip repo...
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Arches Part 1
We rolled into Arches at about 7pm, stopped at the visitors center and then went back to Devil's Garden for our campsite. The campground itself was spectacular, quite the experience. Most places we've camped can be thrown into a category...mountains, woods, beach, etc. But this site will probably remain a unique experience. The camper and truck really had nothing more than the shoulder of the road, but the site was huge, with privacy and a red rock playground for the kids! The major consideration if camping here, is that it is 20-30 minutes into the park, and a real drive to anywhere else. If we did it again, I would stay only 2 nights here, and then move to town for a 3rd night.
We were really dreading the weather here. From reading this forum, it was suggested that the campground would be worth dealing with the heat. If you ask me now, I say yes. If you had asked me then... We had no electricity and highs right at 100. Oh, and no dump site either, so it wasn't like we could take cool showers at will. We planned our days (3) carefully. Got moving at sunrise and got ourselves to somewhere air conditioned (restaurant, groceries, laundry, visitors centers) for the middle of the day. We'd come out again around 5pm and explore for another few hours. Actually, we did several off road trails during the hot part of the day and had the A/C from the truck. So...the heat didn't slow us down.
The first evening, we caught a sunset at double arch. It was a very cool experience to walk up to this massive rock structure. Photo don't capture it. Driving by doesn't capture it. When you walk under this mass of rock, it is overwhelming! We hung out till the sun went down, and got back to camp at dark.
Unfortunately, I'm going to stop here. The internet is VERY slow, and uploading these photos is killing me. I'll try again tomorrow.
We rolled into Arches at about 7pm, stopped at the visitors center and then went back to Devil's Garden for our campsite. The campground itself was spectacular, quite the experience. Most places we've camped can be thrown into a category...mountains, woods, beach, etc. But this site will probably remain a unique experience. The camper and truck really had nothing more than the shoulder of the road, but the site was huge, with privacy and a red rock playground for the kids! The major consideration if camping here, is that it is 20-30 minutes into the park, and a real drive to anywhere else. If we did it again, I would stay only 2 nights here, and then move to town for a 3rd night.
We were really dreading the weather here. From reading this forum, it was suggested that the campground would be worth dealing with the heat. If you ask me now, I say yes. If you had asked me then... We had no electricity and highs right at 100. Oh, and no dump site either, so it wasn't like we could take cool showers at will. We planned our days (3) carefully. Got moving at sunrise and got ourselves to somewhere air conditioned (restaurant, groceries, laundry, visitors centers) for the middle of the day. We'd come out again around 5pm and explore for another few hours. Actually, we did several off road trails during the hot part of the day and had the A/C from the truck. So...the heat didn't slow us down.
The first evening, we caught a sunset at double arch. It was a very cool experience to walk up to this massive rock structure. Photo don't capture it. Driving by doesn't capture it. When you walk under this mass of rock, it is overwhelming! We hung out till the sun went down, and got back to camp at dark.
Unfortunately, I'm going to stop here. The internet is VERY slow, and uploading these photos is killing me. I'll try again tomorrow.