Category: Campgrounds

Zion National Park – Wednesday September 6, 2017

Today was travel day to Zion National Park for two week.  It is really a beautiful place.
On the way we made three stops, Lowes, Safelite Auto Glass and Walmart.   Lowes was to look at microwave ovens the microwave convection oven was acting up for a week or so my not working, we threatened it and has worked for the past week.  If it quits again it’s gone.  Safelite to get a motorhome window chip fixed and Walmart for groceries.
Watchman campground.
We are in site B44 for the next two weeks.
This picture was taken with my Ipad, not a bad picture.

CATHEDRAL GORGE STATE PARK, NV – FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We ventured out today exploring two state parks northeast of here.  Echo Canyon is 12 miles off the main road Hwy 93 and Spring Valley is 19 miles.

Echo Canyon has a new area about 2 years old which has water/electric/and sewing.  Looked to have three bars of cell service however I don’t know if has the same data problem that Cathedral Gorge was having (this is being written on Thursday September 7) will we were there.  We could get a data connection for 10 to 15 minutes in the morning and a couple minutes in the evening.  Jean was only getting about 20% of her daily Jack pictures.

Here is new campground area.

Than we drove onto Spring Valley State Park, it has zero cell service.

Most of the campsite were small for our motorhome, but there were a few good sites.  

I-90 Rest Stop and Quartz Flats NFS Campground – Wednesday June 28, 2017

Time to move on:
Heading towards Tanya, Mike and Jack’s for a week.  Celebrating Tanya’s and Jack’s birthdays.  Jack’s first birthday and Tanya’s more than first birthday.
This is a I-90 rest spot and Forest Service Campground, at mile post 60.
We are in site A7, a nice large pull-through, great since I will not have to unhook the pickup.
On Friday September 15, 2000 I set on this picnic table at 10:30 at night and had my first beer with my daughter.

Palisades BLM – Thursday June 15, 2017

Today’s fishing report:

morning 

    6 inch brown 

    12 inch brown

Afternoon 

   6 inch brown

   8 inch brown

   15 inch rainbow

   16 inch brown

We are 27 miles South of Ennis Montana at Fishing Access Site Campground.
This is the view out the front window while in site number 1.

Internet comes and goes so the picture may not upload.  I will post picture later, this is a beautiful place.  Eleven sites with only one other person here, he is from Bellingham and has been coming here for eight years.

Palisades BLM – Wednesday June 14, 2017

Moved campgrounds today.

We left Bakers Hole Campground with our first stop in West Yellowstone for gas and propane.   The entrance to Yellowstone was really backed up.  In May you can just drive up to a pay station and into the park, today the 5 entrance pay stations were backed up a 1/2 mile all the way back into the West Yellowstone stop light.

Now at Palisades BLM

 

We are 27 miles south of Ennis, Montana
I didn’t see the three old campsite circles until we had been here for over a week.  I was looking on google earth to see what was around this area and I saw the three shadows of campsite circle.
When I got to Tanya, Mike and Jack’s I had enough WiFi to look on google earth on my laptop.  The full PC version of Google Earth allows you to review all the past pictures of a specific area.  These sites were installed and taken out before 1995.

Bakers Hole Campground, Fly Fishing – Thursday June 8, 2017

I was 31 years old when I took this picture of my hiking boots looking at Mt. Olympus in Olympic National Park.  We started at Soleduck Hot Spring, carrying a 100 pound pack up to the High Divide across the Cat Walk to Mt. Carrie.  The valley below between us and Mt. Olympus is the Hoh River Valley.
This picture was taken today at 67 years old, my new wading boots setting in front of my motorhome after a day of fly fishing in Yellowstone National Park on the Firehole and Madison Rivers.

Today I want back into the park and fished the Firehole River.

Bakers Hole Campground – West Yellowstone, MT – Tuesday June 6, 2017

We spent most of the day looking at campgrounds and fishing access points on the Madison River between here and Ennis, MT.
Drove 168 miles and this is what we found:

The river is currently unfishable from where we are now to I-90.
Fishing Access Site (FAS) Valley Garden by Ennis has several sites but road is in bad shape.
FAS Ennis just south of Ennis has have a dozen sites right on the river, 7 days, $12.00 a night.
FAS Varney Bridge has 7 sites 1-2 bars of cell, 7 days, $12.00 a night. is 4 miles of gravel road off Hwy 287.
Ruby Creek Campground BLM is a big campground with really nice sites, 1 bar cell, 14 days, water available, $6.00 a night with Old Guy Pass.  Good gravel road
FAS Palisades 15 nice sites right on the river, 1 bar cell, 14 days, no current water (not turned on), 14 days, $4.00 a night with Old Guy Pass.
FAS Reynolds Pass has 7 sites right on the river, river very narrow at this point, not a good place for us.

We will be staying at Bakers Hole for another week.  I can fish here and will go back into the park and also fish there, at least the water is clear, to high but clear.  At this point I think we will go to Palisades for two weeks and then two days to drive to Tanya, Mike and Jack’s.

Internet is really bad this morning hopefully this will post.