Since Blanding is on your itinerary, be sure to stay at Blue Mountain RV Park. The grounds keeper/handy man is an old canyon rat that knows that country like the back of his hand. We've been hiking the Grand Gulch Primitive Area, Comb Ridge and Cedar Mesa area using Blue Mountain as a base camp since 2003. We must have stayed there something like close to 90 days. He knows where all the best Anasazi Cliff dwelling are. Sometimes we just hike the canyon rims rather than descending into the canyons.