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Ivylog
Aug 19, 2016Explorer III
Welcome back. Your last post makes it easier to respond. I'll assume with your route this is for next summer although we are leaving tomorrow for CO, WY, ID, CA, UT, AZ, NM for two months without any reservations. We usually set up a base camp in a USFS no reservation CG on Sun or Monday in or near a NP. Show up on Friday and your odds of finding a site for a big rig is nil so we usually leave Friday. Saturday we'll will stop at a private CG and resupply so we can do five more days boondocking.
Fortunately it's dryer out West (not including the fires) than Fla so the trike will work most of the time although coastal OR could be wet. One of the best sites for Public CGs is uscampgrounds.info and for Private and Public... Allstays. We will do the 1500 miles to Santa Fe in two days as it's too hot for anything in between. On your route I'd do both rims of the Grand Canyon and Zion/Bryce in southern UT. Worth a day in Las Vegas if you have not been there before. I would not go through Death Valley to get to Yosimite unless at night... 118+ will test your MH's cooling and your ACs. Unless you have more than two months I'd probably skip the southern CA coast and go to Lake Tahoe from Yosemite and then to the coast above San Fran.
The OR coast is a must see, but I would skip the WA coast and head to ID and then Yellowstone and the Tetons and then CO.
*Hope this helps to make up for my previous post :B although your first one was lacking in specificity.
Fortunately it's dryer out West (not including the fires) than Fla so the trike will work most of the time although coastal OR could be wet. One of the best sites for Public CGs is uscampgrounds.info and for Private and Public... Allstays. We will do the 1500 miles to Santa Fe in two days as it's too hot for anything in between. On your route I'd do both rims of the Grand Canyon and Zion/Bryce in southern UT. Worth a day in Las Vegas if you have not been there before. I would not go through Death Valley to get to Yosimite unless at night... 118+ will test your MH's cooling and your ACs. Unless you have more than two months I'd probably skip the southern CA coast and go to Lake Tahoe from Yosemite and then to the coast above San Fran.
The OR coast is a must see, but I would skip the WA coast and head to ID and then Yellowstone and the Tetons and then CO.
*Hope this helps to make up for my previous post :B although your first one was lacking in specificity.
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