Help plan our week in Moab, UT

[dverstra]

This will be our first trip to the Moab area. My wife and I and our 2 Corgis will be spending 7 days in Moab in mid September. We are not quite retirement age (62) and enjoy short walks or scenic drives with or without the puppies. A scenic drive with a jeep rental sounds fun. Nothing too crazy! Maybe a half day tour with a jeep tour operator. Jet boat on the Colorado? Places to drive to with our Honda CRV Toad? Scenic Float trip on the river? What tour and rental companies have you had good service from?

[exgman]

dverstra wrote:
Thanks to everyone for your input so far. Does anyone have a recommendation for a half day hummer or jeep ride?

Poison Spider or maybe Hells Revenge for the Hummer/Jeep trip. I also recommend Shafer Trail in your CRV. Several nice vistas overlooking the Colorado River and the view from the top, on a clear day, is fantastic.

[tegu69]

Seneca 35GS wrote:
You could not have selected a better place to visit, as Moab is wonderful. Suggest a trip down "Shafer Trail". It was originally a cow trail to the bottom of Canyonlands Nat. Park, then it became a uranium ore road. Although it is a gravel roadway you will have no problem in your Honda CRV, just proceed slowly and enjoy the view.

On your first day in Moab stop by the visitors center in the middle of town and they will guide you in the right direction.

Their is a old time hamburger stand 2 or 3 blocks off the main drag that is a great place for lunch. It seats about 8 or 10 people, this is where the locals all go.

We took Shafer Trail about 27 years ago UP into the park. If its still the same as it was, its very cool, a lot of switchbacks.

[dverstra]

Thanks to everyone for your input so far. Does anyone have a recommendation for a half day hummer or jeep ride?

[vermilye]

2X on the sunsets at Arches:

[Drbolasky]

Plan to spend at least one day in Arches so you are there for sunset. Arches is beautiful by day. When the sun goes down the lengthening shadows and mix of colors in the sky and on the rock formations is unbeatable. Enjoy & safe travels.

[Bumpyroad]

the most impressive arch I saw there was Mesa arch in the canyonlands. a couple of years after I had visited and photographed it there was a Nikon ad in a photo magazine that had a picture of it exactly like mine. I took a bunch of 3D shots of it and thru it.
bumpy

[muelldawg]

Arches National Park is a MUST see.

[1mtnman]

If you are in to hiking don't pass up the Fisher Towers trail. Leave you dogs in camper as it is a bit tough for them.


Moab Country

[Major_Dad]

In Arches dogs are not allowed on trails, but are allowed at pullouts on paved surfaces, so be aware of that. You'll want to get out and walk some of the trails to the arches; many of them are easily accessible by foot.

The scenic drive along the river is really beautiful, with some well-preserved petroglyphs on some of the canyon walls.

[amandasgramma]

We were there a couple of months ago. Canyonlands, Dead Horse State Park and Arches Ntl Park are to "for sure" to do list.

Also, there is a rock and gem store on the north end of town.....even if you aren't a rock hound, it's worth seeing. He found a dinosaur that up til then (70s) had not been known about. He has dinosaur fossils and bones. ALSO, he has a 40 foot petrified tree......:) and some HUGE petrified trunks that are beautiful.

There is also Hwy 128. Follow this out for quite a few miles. We never made it to the "end". Eventually on the left side you'll see Red Cliff Resort. We didn't eat there, but it smelled YUMMY!. They have (in the restaurant bldg) a museum. They have posters and memorabilia of all the movies made in that area....from 1929 (I believe). And best of all, it's free. Which is a good thing because the winery on that property cost me quite a bit 🙂 🙂 🙂 VERY nice winery.

Have fun!!!!! Is definitely a place I want to go back to.

[Seneca_35GS]

You could not have selected a better place to visit, as Moab is wonderful. Suggest a trip down "Shafer Trail". It was originally a cow trail to the bottom of Canyonlands Nat. Park, then it became a uranium ore road. Although it is a gravel roadway you will have no problem in your Honda CRV, just proceed slowly and enjoy the view.

On your first day in Moab stop by the visitors center in the middle of town and they will guide you in the right direction.

Their is a old time hamburger stand 2 or 3 blocks off the main drag that is a great place for lunch. It seats about 8 or 10 people, this is where the locals all go.

[CloudDriver]

To repeat what I posted in your thread from October -

"While in the Moab area, don't miss Dead Horse Point State park and the Island in the Sky portions of Canyonlands National Park. Amazing views! Also the drive on UT 128 follows the Colorado River through a canyon that gives a feel for what being at the bottom of the Grand Canyon would look like. Coming from the east on I70, you could take route 128 to Moab, rather than route 191."

To add to the above, all of the viewpoints in Canyonlands are great, but don't miss Grandview Point. Upheaval Dome was also interesting. A short, but uphill hike to get there. Dead Horse Point State Park is a don't miss. In Arches, it's about 1/4 mile hike to stand under Double Arch, about a mile hike to Landscape Arch, which looks like it must fall at any second. Balanced Rock is a short stroll from the parking area.

At age 62 you can get the Senior Pass for free entrance to all National parks and half price camping.

[dverstra]

I guess that I was asking for personal favorite places to visit in the Moab area. I could probably spend a month there and not see it all.

[donkeydew]

sorry for the repeat dick b has faster fingers

[donkeydew]

it is a wonderful area just enter moab in the search section above and you will have reading till you are ready to leave