We're getting ready to do the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands NP in the next few weeks. :)I am really appreciating all the trip reports of the people who have traveled this path before me. The pictures really help. The commentary really helps. And the prep info really helps.Thanks for your postings. I will certainly post after I go though the many pictures I will be taking.Going with an older Toyota Land Cruiser, a Dodge with a 4wheel camper and me.For those who have done this trip before... Any last min. musing I should think about?Thanks!!!

You will definitely enjoy the scenery. Especially along the part overlooking the Green River (you can't see any ground out the driver's side. LOL).

Bert,It is a special place. You are going at a great time of year. Not too wet. Not too cold. Not too hot. Not too many people on bicycles.My first trip around the White Rim was in a topless 1966 Land Cruiser in June of 1970. Oh, what a hot one it was. There is one hill after the mesa that had a very steep grade on the N. side; so steep it had a winch loop anchor point at the top drilled into a rock. We camped in the middle somewhere and it was so hot we just lay on the ground, not unlike our Piute ancestors. Last time we were there in September 2010 (40 yrs. later?) the grade was leveled out some and the winch loop was gone. Such is progress. Let's hope the last little bottom land part of the trail is not under water. That scuttled out attempt to complete the Rim in 2010, but going back out the way we came had the effect of two different trails.jefe

Yes! I have read every detail of both of your trip reports!!!

acudr wrote:We're getting ready to do the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands NP in the next few weeks. :)I am really appreciating all the trip reports of the people who have traveled this path before me. The pictures really help. The commentary really helps. And the prep info really helps.Thanks for your postings. I will certainly post after I go though the many pictures I will be taking.Going with an older Toyota Land Cruiser, a Dodge with a 4wheel camper and me.For those who have done this trip before... Any last min. musing I should think about?Thanks!!!Just keep a eye on the weather, Blm's "Cowboy" campsite is a great place and easy to miss the way in off of Hwy 313. I'm planning another go at the WRT in the first part of July, just after the 4th, maybe I'll make it all the way around this time!Have a great time! :B

Can't wait to hear about it. Good luck Bert

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tuna_fisher
Explorer
Mar 14, 2014
acudr wrote:
RE: rzr. No. I have the permit and they send you a bunch of rules and regs and they specially state no atv/rzr /motorbikes on the trail. Only street legal 4wd vehicles and bicycles.
Street legal motorcycles are allowed, Dual Sports is the way to go, JMO.
acudr
Explorer
Mar 14, 2014
Thanks ya'll. For us truck camper types, this is one of those adventure trips we don't get to do too much. Mostly because of the distance, prep and even some technical. We're excited and I WILL be taking pics/ vid.
Nemo667
Explorer
Mar 14, 2014
Good luck acudr...the views on the rim are amazing and the trail itself an adventure you will not soon forget. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!! Wish we were going with you...:B
acudr
Explorer
Mar 14, 2014
RE: rzr. No. I have the permit and they send you a bunch of rules and regs and they specially state no atv/rzr /motorbikes on the trail. Only street legal 4wd vehicles and bicycles.
timn
Explorer
Mar 14, 2014
How about taking a polaris rzr wife bad I are going April 4 the will the rzr be allowed on the trail.
monkey44
Nomad II
Mar 14, 2014
Powelligator wrote:
I wouldn't try it in a CRV, you need ground clearance for parts of that trail.

-Joe

YUP, this one!!!
Powelligator
Explorer
Mar 13, 2014
I wouldn't try it in a CRV, you need ground clearance for parts of that trail.

-Joe
Explorer1016
Explorer
Mar 13, 2014
You would be better off renting a Jeep from one of the local outfitters.
obgraham
Explorer
Mar 13, 2014
Another "someday I'll..." place for me.

So tell me, folks who've done it -- do I need a real 4WD, or is it doable in a sissy rig like my CRV?
clikrf8
Explorer
Mar 13, 2014
Have a wonderful time. I am so jealous. We were in Canyonlands (Island in the Sky) in October 2012 and looked down at the trail from the viewpoints. One of these days.... Looking forward to an awesome TR.

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