Category: Camping

Another day, another unplanned stop. Today we followed the signs to Pipe Spring National Monument. Showing our park pass at the visitors center, the ranger said that the guided tour of the fort was starting in 5 minutes. If you come, the tour makes the visit much more meaningful. Our guide was local to the…

Little bits of snow remained at the edges of the forest on the drive south from Jacob Lake.  Based on discovering that the next available reservation for a north rim campground in the park isn’t until the end of August, we stopped at Demotte Campground in the Kaibab National Forest and paid for a site.…

With Beth affirming her fear of heights over the last few days, we didn’t opt for a hike to the bottom of the canyon. We are headed to the north rim and crossing the Colorado at Lee’s Ferry.  Temperature differences here in Arizona surprised us. We left Canyon View at 7:30 in a comfortable 64…

After breakfast we drove over to camper services and emptied our grey and black tanks in expectation of moving to Desert View Campground, where there are no services. One note on campgrounds in the village; if you don’t need an electric hook-up, Mather Campground is significantly nicer than Trailer Village. There are more trees and…

We rose at 4:30 am in hopes of seeing the sunrise at the Canyon. We dallied a little too long and heard the first bus as it looped by the campground entrance. As we waited for the second bus, the sky became light and we knew we had missed the sunrise. Talking with the driver,…

After collapsing at 9:00 last night, we were up with the dawn at 5:30. Plugging in the tire monitor, it started beeping. All the tires were a little low since the outside temperature was at 32, but the outside left rear tire was down to 49 instead of 61.  After breakfast and packing up camp,…