GSENM: Burr Trail hikes

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LarryBoy said:
Well I'll be hitching down the Burr Tr in a few days so if you see a dirty dude in an orange shirt and a boonie hat (green or gray backpack), pick me up please :)
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@LarryBoy - we have to drive across the country first.... but we will be in the area next week, Burr trail probably mid to end of next week.
 
Ugly said:
@LarryBoy and @Rockskipper are exactly right.
If you stay up high on the Burr trail, or off wolverine you can also catch the sunrise that morning from something like the exit/overlook of Long canyon.
There is rarely a bad sunrise anywhere, but the past few days were some great ones, and Friday I had kinda wished we had stayed down that way bc much of it was under low misty fog, which is a personal favorite. But where I was that morning ended up peachy.
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There's a short dirt road just east/downhill of the Long Canyon Overlook that branches off to several campsites on a small hill. Not too much privacy since it's visible from the overlook, but I spent 2 nights there since both the sunset and sunrise views were spectacular and there wasn't much traffic midweek anyway.

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piper01 said:
There's a short dirt road just east/downhill of the Long Canyon Overlook that branches off to several campsites on a small hill. Not too much privacy since it's visible from the overlook, but I spent 2 nights there since both the sunset and sunrise views were spectacular and there wasn't much traffic midweek anyway.

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Thanks for the camping tip @piper01 - we will be there next week.... Looking forward to reading about your trip.
 
piper01 said:
There's a short dirt road just east/downhill of the Long Canyon Overlook that branches off to several campsites on a small hill. Not too much privacy since it's visible from the overlook, but I spent 2 nights there since both the sunset and sunrise views were spectacular and there wasn't much traffic midweek anyway.

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Yes. and Funny. A spot I know well.
We spent our first night there on accident. I was in our old Odyssey and pulled in to check it out. It had just recently rained, was near sunset and I went to a side road there that I knew I shouldn't, and we bottomed out. It was early March and I knew the muddy part that was impassable at the moment would freeze that night. SO that determined where we were camping. By morning the kids were running up the washes near the frozen Chinle, loving the petrified wood throughout there, and I was loving the views. We have been there a couple of times since when at a loss of somewhere else to camp. Leading to views such as this:
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