Fun in Moab, Utah
at Easter Jeep Safari 2017
April 8th - 16th was a week packed with Jeepin' fun. This was our 4th year to attend the Easter Jeep Safari organized by the Red Rock 4-Wheelers club. Thousand of jeeps and off road vehicles sign up to participate in a number of trail runs known throughout the Moab area. The scenery is made up of beautiful red rocks. The Moab area is also known for Arches National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park and Canyonlands National Park. With or without a 4-wheel drive it's well worth a visit. The Easter Jeep Safari is also a great time to ooh and aah over all types of vehicles, from customized rock crawlers to the older seldom seen classic Jeeps.
We started our trip leaving Scottsdale on Saturday morning and not wanting to push it to make it all the way in one long 10 hour day, we stopped and spent the night in Bluff, Utah at the Cottonwoods RV park. This gave us the chance to explore the area that we've driven through a number of times but never took the time to stop. We found this rock formation called the locomotive rock.
We started our trip leaving Scottsdale on Saturday morning and not wanting to push it to make it all the way in one long 10 hour day, we stopped and spent the night in Bluff, Utah at the Cottonwoods RV park. This gave us the chance to explore the area that we've driven through a number of times but never took the time to stop. We found this rock formation called the locomotive rock.
We found the Sand Island Petroglyph site and were able to see the many years of natives applying their art and stories to the rock walls
We once again stayed in the Moab Rim Campark at the South end of Moab. The park sits above Highway 191 which gives us a birds eye view of the rigs as they come and go from town.
View from our RV site - LaSalle Mountains
We signed up for three club sponsored trail runs. We enjoyed Dome Plateau, 3-D and Hells Revenge trails. Below is a photo from Dome Plateau and one of a number of arches seem on this run.
A stop along the way on Dome Plateau trail was Cow Springs which had these large natural caves in the rock wall face and a natural spring coming out one which the local ranchers used to water a cattle pond.
Hells Revenge trail was a true 'Slickrock' trail and offered some good four wheeling challenges with tall near vertical climbs in which the 'lockers' had to be engaged but the JK accepted and passed all the challenges put at it all week!
On days in between trail runs, we like to explore on our own around the Moab area and this year we checked out Deadhorse State Park which is just Northwest of Moab and over looks the Colorado river and great views of the Canyonlands beyond for as far a one can see. We could see the famous plateau and cliff named 'Thelma & Louise Cliff' which was where the movie scene were filmed where Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon drove the '66 Thunderbird over the edge at the end of the movie.
On the way back from Deadhorse State Park, we made a back roads detour and found Gemini natural bridge arches which are two arches side by side in the same rock but are separate arches as they have a large gap between them and we were able to walk across the tops of them. In fact in the years past, they use to allow you to drive down and across them and actually park your Jeep on the top them. Walking across was good enough for us!
We enjoyed our week in Moab filled with Jeeps, trails and beautiful scenery.
Sign us up for next year.
Until next time - Enjoy your adventure.
