2/17/2024 0 Comments Camping near monument valley![]() If towing a trailer I would unhook at the pull off just off of 163 and then drive in to find a spot. I would not take Shiny the full 17 miles but if you start the tour from Highway 163 there were plenty of spots within a mile or two. My favorite is Lady In The Bathtub.Īnd for our dispersed camping friends, there are lots of places to set up camp along the 17 mile stretch. It was fun to have a list of the rock formation names and then try to figure out which was which along the drive. Pictured above are a few of the rock formations along the drive. We were told that it will be impassible when it rains though, so beware. High clearance, 4W drive vehicles are recommended but the day we were there we saw a couple passenger cars driving it. Have you ever heard of The Valley Of The Gods? We had not until one of the Goulding’s Campground maintenance workers recommended it to us. For instance the Navajo people are seldom seen, where ever they my be, without a mask on. As a result they take Covid very seriously. Unfortunately the Tribal Park was still closed while we were there due to Covid. One of the attractions in Monument Valley is the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. I have to admit I later regretted not grabbing a couple for myself. Susan grabbed 3 of them and put them in our freezer, which was still cold because it works on propane as well as electricity. During the outage a office worker came around with a tray of half melted ice cream sandwiches, handing them out to the campers. There was a nice breeze and in about 3 hours the power came back on. Susan calmed me down and we opened up Shiny and sat outside in the shade under one of those trees. My first thought was go find that motel room. ![]() □ We thought it might be out for some time when we noticed the cell towers were out as well. The unthinkable happened here at Goulding’s when, during the heat of midday, the power went out. Our friend John Beland back in Sierra Vista likes to say “it’s a dry heat-like an oven”. But 105 with 9% humidity is better then 90 at 75% humidity as far as I’m concerned. Have you every heard someone say “but it’s a dry heat”? It’s true to a certain extent. Neither Sue or I felt safe walking around outside with that creature unleashed. But later I looked outside and the pit bull was not on a leash at all, just sitting in the shade. Not good! The pit bull owner ran over and got his dog away. The woman was putting herself in-between the two dogs. It had run over to a smaller dog being walked on a leash by a women and started attacking the small dog. Apparently the dog somehow got off the chain. I little while later when we were inside we heard an unholy racket. We were getting Shiny set up and right behind us was a feller in one of those Aliner campers with a pit bull like dog. Something happened here when we first arrived that Sue and I still talk about. Those trees don’t look like much in the picture but they gave us some luxurious shade in the afternoon. Susan does a good job of keeping Shiny as cool as possible in the 105 degree heat. One of our dispersed camping sites in Colorado would be destroyed by fire after we left. The smoke from wildfires would harrow us all the way across the country to New Hampshire. In the last picture you can see the Smoky air from the wildfires further west. They have everything a nomad needs, laundry, full hookups (electricity, water, sewer), grocery store, gas station, and a very nice view. As far as private campgrounds go Goulding’s is pretty good. Local Airstreamers from the Apache-Trout Airstream Rally recommended it and the campground had good online reviews. We decided to stay at Goulding’s Resort RV & Campground. We talked it over and decided if it got too hot we’d get a motel room with air conditioning. We decided to use private campgrounds as our weather app predicted rather warm temperatures.
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