Horton's Travels

April 25 – 29, 2011 After our week of errands and repairs we were pretty pumped up for our stay in Zion. We had made reservations for 4 nights all the way back in early March to make sure that we could get in. That turned out to be a good decision as the campground [...]

April 17 – 25, 2011 As we were planning the trip across Utah we had our eye on St. George as our final stop. Ever since we had our first overheating issue coming out of New Mexico we knew we wanted to reach civilization at some point in order to get that resolved. St. George [...]

We ended up in Escalante at the Broken Bow RV Park after deciding that if the forecast for the area was going to be highs in the 30′s and snow we would rather be plugged in to electric and running our space heater than totally unplugged in Capitol Reef. Not to mention, if we were [...]

I’m going to change the format a bit on this post and let the pictures tell most of the story. We didn’t get to spend as much time as we had hoped for in Capitol Reef but the time we did have was pretty amazing. Check it out.

Leaving from Needles we continued our backtracking south to reach highway 95 which would allow us to cut over in the direction of Capitol Reef N.P. Our first nights stop would be another boondocking spot, officially the “overflow” camping for Capitol Reef. This involved another dirt road trip which despite our last experience we still [...]

While we were staying at Dead Horse Point we spent quite a bit of time touring the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park. In contrast to nearby Arches N.P., Canyonlands was less crowded, more scenic and had more hiking available. For all those reasons, we really enjoyed the park and decided that [...]

After leaving Dead Horse we had our shortest travel day ever, thirty miles down the road to OK RV Park just south of Moab. We originally thought that after Dead Horse we would be leaving the area, probably headed towards Capitol Reef, but since we spent almost all of our time at Dead Horse exploring [...]

Dead Horse Point State Park sits on top of its mesa just to the west of Moab Utah surrounded by 2000 foot cliffs falling off down to the Colorado river. The origin of the name is not agreed upon but obviously has to do with some dead horses. The version that I read was that [...]