What's Out Your Back Window?

[Patandlinda]

Originally Posted by Rossue

A place someone marked on our map a few years ago: Crooked River COE c.g's (8) below Prineville Reservoir. Palisades is our favorite.

You guys are sure lucky right now . Very hot here today haven't got used to it after the cold ! Pat

[John in Santa Cruz]

just got home from 18 days and 3280 miles with our Escape, and boy do I have a lot of 'out the back window' shots, but they are all on google photos, so I need to move a copy of them to something else I can post/embed here. campsites included the Strawberry Music Festival, along the Extraterrestrial Highway in Nevada, alongside an NF road just outside Bryce NP, Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah, Dead Horse State Park in Utah, a Walmart in Winslow AZ (no photo), and an awesome boondock spot we found in Mojave NM a couple miles off I40 last night.

[rubicon327]

Originally Posted by DonF

Photos were taken at Schoodic Point, a few miles away from where we are camped at the Schoodic Woods Campground in Acadia National Park. It's been a great week here, off to Canada tomorrow!

Don: Beautiful shots. We are are taking a family road trip in late June that includes a few days in Acadia NP. We won't be camping. Any tips or "must do's" that you can share?
Thanks.

[John in Santa Cruz]

out my back window, this past couple weeks...

2019-05-28, somewhere on the Extraterrestrial Highway in NV...

[John in Santa Cruz]

2019-05-29, Dixie NF free camping just outside Bryce NP

[John in Santa Cruz]

2019-05-30 - 06-02, Kodachrome Basin SP

[John in Santa Cruz]

2019-06-04 - 06-07, Dead Horse Point SP

[John in Santa Cruz]

early morning of 2019-06-09, freecamping on the edge of Mojave Nat. Preserve, about 3 miles from I40...

[Chris & Patricia]

Originally Posted by John in Santa Cruz

2019-05-30 - 06-02, Kodachrome Basin SP

That is a great state park, we plan to return. While we were there we encountered another escape too!

[John in Santa Cruz]

Originally Posted by Chris & Patricia

That is a great state park, we plan to return. While we were there we encountered another escape too!

so did we, an E21 just like ours, across and up a couple from us! I can't remember the couples name, we briefly chatted.

[Don]

Originally Posted by rubicon327

Don: Beautiful shots. We are are taking a family road trip in late June that includes a few days in Acadia NP. We won't be camping. Any tips or "must do's" that you can share?
Thanks.

Thanks for the compliment. Sorry for the late response; we’ve been away from the internet world for awhile. We stayed away from the main section of the park this time so I really can’t add much besides the major stops I’m sure you already know about. If you make the drive to the Schoodic Peninsula, I’d recommend sunset. Lots of rocks to scramble around on and plenty of space so crowds shouldn’t be much of a problem.

[johnp271]

Boondocking in Valley of the Gods, Utah

[padlin]

I guess the dips at the ends of trail are doable, good to know.

[John in Santa Cruz]

re dirty/dusty back windows, yeah, thats why most of my pics were from along side the trailer... that and the bicycles in the back rack kinda blocked the view from the window.

[davidmurphy02]

Originally Posted by johnp271

Boondocking in Valley of the Gods, Utah

How far into Valley of the Gods was this? And did you drive the whole road, or go in a ways from the south off 163 and then go back out that way? Just wondering how that road is if you drive the whole loop.

[johnp271]

I was camped less than a mile on the VotG dirt road off of Rt 163. I drove the entire road in my tow vehicle but I would not pull the trailer the entire way. It could possibly be done but I would not recommend it and what's the point? One could easily have gone farther in than I went with the camper but I found this nice vacant spot to spend a few nights so stopped there.

[davidmurphy02]

Originally Posted by johnp271

I was camped less than a mile on the VotG dirt road off of Rt 163. I drove the entire road in my tow vehicle but I would not pull the trailer the entire way. It could possibly be done but I would not recommend it and what's the point? One could easily have gone farther in than I went with the camper but I found this nice vacant spot to spend a few nights so stopped there.

Thanks - we're going to be out that way in the fall and that was kind of my plan to from perusing the satellite images - looks like you don't have to go terribly far in to be surrounded by all the rock formations and be pretty isolated.

[gbaglo]

What did you do after you took the picture?

[rubicon327]

Originally Posted by Don

Thanks for the compliment. Sorry for the late response; we’ve been away from the internet world for awhile. We stayed away from the main section of the park this time so I really can’t add much besides the major stops I’m sure you already know about. If you make the drive to the Schoodic Peninsula, I’d recommend sunset. Lots of rocks to scramble around on and plenty of space so crowds shouldn’t be much of a problem.

Don thanks for the reply. I’ll try to make it over to Schoodic Peninsula. Leaving Friday. Niagara Falls, Lake Placid, Acadia NP, sailing Boothbay Harbor ME with father’s friend, Cape Cod / Nantucket and then home to NJ! 10 days, 4 adults, 5 kids....wish me luck!

[johnp271]

If you are talking about the Valley of the Gods road in Utah and the "dips being doable" and it came from my saying "It (pulling a trailer along the entire VotG road) could possibly be done but I would not recommend it..." then I should further refine my statement. I phrased my discouragement too weakly. I should have said something more like "I would strongly recommend against" doing this and I would predict that the odds of failure, while of course dependent on driver skill, tow vehicle quality, etc, are in general much greater than 1 in 2. Some of the dips with my tow vehicle alone, a GMC Canyon, had me nervous and uncomfortable.