I'll be camping and doing day hikes around Blanding Utah in May. I'll be driving a rental, a small SUV with 4 wheel but not high clearance.
I'd like to spend one night in the La Sals, and would like suggestions for places I can drive to in such a vehicle where I would have good views to the east.
https://www.natgeomaps.com/ti-725-bob-marshall-wilderness
Picture Ridge in the Swan Range is spectacular altho very hard. Sunburst lake is beautiful with trout.
We hiked part of the way to Sid's cabin last October. We camped on the overlook.
There's a rock art panel up high that was easy to see but impossible to get to, The trail out of the wash was very hard to follow with cairns leading to many different paths.
You can see lights along the highway...
I got a BLM office on the phone, gonna mail me a couple of the Arizona Strip for $5 each.
All I need is enough to navigate on roads, too damn old to backpack anymore.
In October of 2015, me and my friends tried to drive Butler Wash Road starting at Hwy 95 in a passenger van. Things didn't go all that well - we got stuck in a sandy wash. A good samaritan with a tow chain got us out and we bailed, going to Grand Gulch instead. We had a fine time in the gulch...
I'd like to thank everyone who answered my questions, and the people who maintain this page. I got lots of useful info that will make my upcoming trip that much cooler.
Things have sure changed since I started hiking in 1982, Back then, all I had were forest service maps.
I'm going to spend a few days camping along Butler Wash. I see there are several ruins along there, but nothing with much detail about finding them.
Anyone give me some tips or refer me to a good source, I'd appreciate it. I have the Trails Illustrated map, which has them marked in Grand Gulch...
Thanks for the tip. I have a couple of people new to the dessert, and I want to show them a good time without making them go on any forced marches. This sounds perfect.
Are the roads on either side of Comb Bluff between Hwy 95 and HWY 163 passable in a passenger car? Would there likely be many people around first week of October?
We're for sure hiking in the Reef around Temple Mount. We're traveling on I-70 cause its fast and its a long way from Cheeseland the Swell. I'm trying to find ruins - structures - that we could get to that wouldn't add any more driving than necessary.
I'll be driving from Wisconsin to go hiking in the San Rafael Swell in October. We'll be driving east on I-70.
We'd like to see some ruins. Can anyone suggest something that we could reach in a passenger car with a hike of 4 miles or less? The closer it is to I-70 the better, as some of us...
I camped on BLM land just outside the park near the Hop Valley trailhead just off the Kolob Terrace Road. Kolob Terrace Road goes in and out of the park. There is a rough road going west just before you re-enter the park. We were in a passenger car and we not able to get very far off the paved...
Beautiful photo. We're going to do two or three short hikes in the Swell in early October.
I think we're going to see if we can climb the reef around the Black Dragon panel and maybe Wild Horse Creek and check out some of the canyons through the reef.