Boondocking – Page 3 – On the Road with Dan & Amy

National Parks x 3

After leaving Panguitch and the Bryce Canyon National Park area, we headed toward Moab, UT with a 2-day stop in Torrey. Torrey is near Capitol Reef National Park and Moab is situated near Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. So over this past week, w, took several hikes in 3 separate National Parks.

10 Days in Page, AZ

With snow still on the ground in most of the Utah parks, we decided to spend extra time in the Page, AZ area. We’ve done a lot of interesting activities while we’ve been here. As a result, this posting will likely be longer than most of our other posts. We spent the first 3 days at Wahweap Campground with full hookups for $52/night and then we moved to Lone Rock Beach Campground for dispersed camping with no hookups at $14/night.

Boondocking in Sedona

Forest Road 525

Sedona, AZ is one of the most beautiful areas in the west and late March is a perfect time to visit. We planned to stay on public land and therefore did not have a reservation anywhere. All our research pointed to Forest Road 525 as the place to go and, as one would imagine, everyone else learned the same thing. After driving 3 miles down a dirt road and finding all the obvious camping spots overflowing with RVs, we began to get a little nervous.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Our final five days of boondocking before returning to the civilization that is an RV park was spent at Gunsight Wash BLM, just south of Why, AZ. Yes, the town’s name is Why and I don’t know why. Once again we seem to be tracing the footsteps of our friends, Jim and Corinne. We arrived here the day before they planned to leave. One big advantage of this was Jim driving Dan around in their Jeep to find a good site to setup for the 5 days. As a result, we have been staying in what is probably our best boondocking site yet.

Cibola National Wildlife Refuge

Hippee Hole BLM

We continue our boondocking adventures with 4 days just outside of the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge. The promise of this location is lots of migratory birds. Unfortunately, the majority of them have already started their trek north. Speaking with family in the northeast, these birds may regret departing so soon. This is another thing we need to adjust to – for migratory birds to show up in the north in late March they have to leave the south in early to mid February.