I'm not sure the Goosenecks area is worth more than a couple of nights, but it sure is a great place if you want to feel like an insignificant dot in a huge landscape (and who doesn't enjoy that feeling??). That's my trailer on the edge of the cliff on a cold and windy afternoon in late October of 2010 -- we were camped way out on the peninsula, maybe half a mile from the campground -- that is Monument Valley in the far distance. To get this shot, I had to climb up a big hill to the north of the river, but it was worth the effort:
tuna fisher wrote:
Haven't been to Goosenecks in years, since then it's become a pay place. We use to just drive in and park anywhere, is it still like that? If I remember, if you went to the right there were some spaces or if you went left you just parked anywhere, no tables,rest rooms, water, etc. Can someone update this for me? Is this how it still works?
I was there this past December.
It is still a pay park, complete with day use and overnight fees.
There are tables, fire rings and pit toilets. I did not see any water or other improvements.
The sites were loosely defined, more or less by the table and firepit.
The pavement, if you can call it that, is EXTREMELY rough and full of large sharp-edged rocks, not just smoothed over stones.
I was ready to spend a night there, but got creeped out by a father-daughter team selling jewelry. They had themselves setup behind the outhouse building, so you couldn't see them until you were in the parking lot, and then they came over with the high pressure sales.
This was the view from the site I had picked
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