Stargazing

[Valkyriebush]

Want to spend a couple of days in the desert for some stargazing on the out skirts of Yuma. What kind of pass if any is required from the BLM and how do you know what is BLM and what is not. Thanks.

[2oldman]

Valkyriebush wrote:
I rode my scooter out to pilot knob yesterday and the surrounding area

Cool. Just don't park in any low areas. If it rains hard, rivers run through there! That's true of most everywhere in the desert, even Quartzsite.

[Valkyriebush]

2oldman wrote:
I like Pilot Knob: 32.742608, -114.757903

I think it's a permit/fee area. $40/2 weeks. $180/6 months. Water and dump at gas station nearby.

There's a free area down the road apiece.

Thanks all, I rode my scooter out to pilot knob yesterday and the surrounding area and talk to the camp host there. Just as you said. Thanks

[pa_traveler]

Just started hobby of looking for agates,rock hounding. So far liking it,tumbling the rough rocks into finished stones.

[2oldman]

CapnCampn wrote:
My interpretation was rock hound during the day, stargaze at night.

Probably right. Poster left out the word 'day'

[CapnCampn]

My interpretation was rock hound during the day, stargaze at night.

Also,

Rock Hounding
noun
1. the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.

CC

[2oldman]

dtappy3353 wrote:
Scrubjay: What does rock hound at night mean? Never heard of it before. sorry

Me neither.

[dtappy3353]

Scrubjay: What does rock hound at night mean? Never heard of it before. sorry

[2oldman]

I like Pilot Knob: 32.742608, -114.757903

I think it's a permit/fee area. $40/2 weeks. $180/6 months. Water and dump at gas station nearby.

There's a free area down the road apiece.

[scrubjaysnest]

no pass required, check the BLM web site. Crystal Hills is nice dry camping. No longer BLM but US FWS. Road in is not so good, very rocky with pot holes. Fairly easy to tell where the old camp sites were. Rock hound during the star gaze at night. About 7 miles south of Quartzite.