Which parks do I NEED to see?
We are leaving from Montreal and going mostly towards the west coast. East coast is easy to do on other years when I get less vacation time. We have 2 months to see as much as possible while enjoying...
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Capitol Reef NP is wonderful - it would be the place to go after Moab. The CG there is in amongst historic fruit farms, and if you are there at the right time you are free to pick the fruit. There is also an old farm house there and you can get pies and other baked goods. One of the hikes will take you through an area where early settlers stopped to write their names into the desert varnish (after 100+ years graffiti becomes historic...)
Think carefully of where you will stay in Moab. Even the best of the RV parks is going to be a flat, mostly gravel lot. Try and plan ahead and stay at Dead Horse SP. You need to come in with your own water in your RV, but there is electric. Also, just because there is no water hookups, the bathrooms are excellent, and there is water there (I assumed pit toilets...) Lots of places to shower in town. You can get a list at the visitors center.
Canyonlands can almost be considered 3 separate parks - with entrances that are distant from each other, and do not connect within the park (well, there is this huge canyon in the way) Needles is quite a long drive from Moab - next time I will stay there, too.
Think carefully of where you will stay in Moab. Even the best of the RV parks is going to be a flat, mostly gravel lot. Try and plan ahead and stay at Dead Horse SP. You need to come in with your own water in your RV, but there is electric. Also, just because there is no water hookups, the bathrooms are excellent, and there is water there (I assumed pit toilets...) Lots of places to shower in town. You can get a list at the visitors center.
Canyonlands can almost be considered 3 separate parks - with entrances that are distant from each other, and do not connect within the park (well, there is this huge canyon in the way) Needles is quite a long drive from Moab - next time I will stay there, too.
