The Best in Tent Camping: Utah: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best Tent Camping) - Softcover

Jeffrey Steadman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897326474 ISBN 13: 9780897326476

Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Best in Tent Camping: Utah is a tent camper's dream. From over 400 campgrounds statewide, the author has culled the 50 best places to pitch a tent and steer clear of the biggest crowds and instead explore those quieter, special campgrounds that only the locals seem to know about.

Campgrounds included put the car camper in some of Utah's best and most beautiful backcountry; from the colorful sandstone canyons of southern Utah, to the thick woods of the Wasatch Mountains in the north. National parks, state parks, a desert reserve, and even an island host some of the fifty featured campgrounds.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey Steadman started camping in Utah at the age of 12. Since then, he's logged countless nights under the stars and hundreds of miles on the trail.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Stealing horses in the nineteenth century was hard work. Thieves pilfered them from Moab ranchers in the La Sal Mountains and drove them west across the dry and dusty trail towards the Henry Mountains Range. Horsethief Campground marks the area where they turned the stolen goods southwest to cross the distant Green River on their way to Robber’s Roost.
Today, the area is home to 56 campsites on three loops named for notable western horse breeds: Buckskin, Cayuse, and Appaloosa. As you enter the campsite from the road, Buckskin and Cayuse loops are on your left. For privacy, your best bets are the more distanced sites 44 through 50 on the Cayuse Loop, although privacy is a relative term in the pinyon-juniper forests of southeastern Utah. Scrubby juniper and sage do little to shield you from your neighbor or provide shade from the sun. Decide when you want your shade morning or evening then pick your site accordingly.
Campsites on the south side of the Appaloosa loop boast the best views of the gentle slope and the small ridge that’s located about a half-mile from the camp. If you want a better view of the distant Henry Mountains take the short, well-marked hike out to the ridge. It’s less than a mile, and the trailhead is on the Appaloosa loop between sites 13 and 14.

About this edition

• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0897326474
• ISBN 13: 9780897326476
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224