fredethomas
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June 1st Daisy and I arrived at the KOA in Vernal, Ut. to meet again with Jim and Terry Johnson. We will be touring the Flaming Gorge area.
Daisy and I stayed at Torrey's Thousand Lakes RV park [ Capitol Reef] for a week after the other forum group left. We "Jeeped" many hundreds of miles in that week. Not so much fun without our forum family but still great trips. In Teasdale we happened across a Bald Eagles nest with two eagles tending a massive nest. It was in a farm yard neat the main highway. Ranger said it is the only one she as seen in her years ranging that area. We found a high plateau in one of the mountains there that over looked the valley, where we had a traditional forum style lunch.
We drove all around the Fish Lake - lake cruising all the many campgrounds looking for parking sites for the future.
After Torrey - we drove to Green River where we spent a week at Shady Acres RV. Thought Green River would be a bummer for sight seeing but Daisy came through. She visited the local information center and came away with car\Jeep trip maps for some 2000 miles of back country trips. We went on some and were stricken with the splendor of the region. It is part of the same lifting and erosion that formed Capitol Reef. The mesas, canyons, and weird rock formations are like Capitol Reef, Bryce and Zion. The roads in the back country are a thousand times easier than QZ - all being well graded gravel. They wind down deep in the canyons and then up on rolling ranch lands. Can't tell you how beautiful the area is. We would have traveled to many more of the POI's but were reluctant to go so far alone. Some trips were forty or more miles into the upheaval. If you look at a map of Utah that covers highway 24 between Hanksville and Green River you will see Goblin State Park. The road that goes west toward the park in blacktoped. The campground in the state park has blacktoped sites of several different lengths. I have recorded the lengths of them.
Down the same road BLM has created two new campsites. They are parkling lot style with toilets. One will hold 50 to 75 rigs and the other ten or so in comfort. Both are in the middle of an old [1950's] mining area. Spectacular country. Gravel roads are flat, graded and wind through many canyons. These are all open to vehicle travel. All back in through there are areas were campers have built fireplaces and set rocks for chairs around the fire pits. We are going back next year and cover some more of the area. This is easy off road traveling - not like some of the rough trips in QZ.
Daisy and I reserved a site at Thousand Lakes for next May 8th for a week. We will leave for there after Moab. Will then go toward Green River but stopping for a few days of dry camping in one of the BL M camps. From there probably on to Shady Acres in Green River and do some more backroading there. This area has got to be the most spectacular in all the the USA. Thousands of square miles of rock formations showing over 400 million years of strata.
Raining here today in Vernal but we will travel some blacktopped roads through the Flaming Gorge area. Had a tour of the dam yesterday on a short trip.
Connecting via Johnsons Data Link system.
Daisy and I stayed at Torrey's Thousand Lakes RV park [ Capitol Reef] for a week after the other forum group left. We "Jeeped" many hundreds of miles in that week. Not so much fun without our forum family but still great trips. In Teasdale we happened across a Bald Eagles nest with two eagles tending a massive nest. It was in a farm yard neat the main highway. Ranger said it is the only one she as seen in her years ranging that area. We found a high plateau in one of the mountains there that over looked the valley, where we had a traditional forum style lunch.
We drove all around the Fish Lake - lake cruising all the many campgrounds looking for parking sites for the future.
After Torrey - we drove to Green River where we spent a week at Shady Acres RV. Thought Green River would be a bummer for sight seeing but Daisy came through. She visited the local information center and came away with car\Jeep trip maps for some 2000 miles of back country trips. We went on some and were stricken with the splendor of the region. It is part of the same lifting and erosion that formed Capitol Reef. The mesas, canyons, and weird rock formations are like Capitol Reef, Bryce and Zion. The roads in the back country are a thousand times easier than QZ - all being well graded gravel. They wind down deep in the canyons and then up on rolling ranch lands. Can't tell you how beautiful the area is. We would have traveled to many more of the POI's but were reluctant to go so far alone. Some trips were forty or more miles into the upheaval. If you look at a map of Utah that covers highway 24 between Hanksville and Green River you will see Goblin State Park. The road that goes west toward the park in blacktoped. The campground in the state park has blacktoped sites of several different lengths. I have recorded the lengths of them.
Down the same road BLM has created two new campsites. They are parkling lot style with toilets. One will hold 50 to 75 rigs and the other ten or so in comfort. Both are in the middle of an old [1950's] mining area. Spectacular country. Gravel roads are flat, graded and wind through many canyons. These are all open to vehicle travel. All back in through there are areas were campers have built fireplaces and set rocks for chairs around the fire pits. We are going back next year and cover some more of the area. This is easy off road traveling - not like some of the rough trips in QZ.
Daisy and I reserved a site at Thousand Lakes for next May 8th for a week. We will leave for there after Moab. Will then go toward Green River but stopping for a few days of dry camping in one of the BL M camps. From there probably on to Shady Acres in Green River and do some more backroading there. This area has got to be the most spectacular in all the the USA. Thousands of square miles of rock formations showing over 400 million years of strata.
Raining here today in Vernal but we will travel some blacktopped roads through the Flaming Gorge area. Had a tour of the dam yesterday on a short trip.
Connecting via Johnsons Data Link system.
Seems the bad weather in the Northeast this spring has kept people from buying. I'm hoping it will change soon. Weather has been pretty nice the past few days. 
