| Author | Message | ||
     Hunn |
Going on a 10 day mostly camping trip around new years from southern OR, Grants Pass area to the south eastern CA/ western AZ desert with wife on her Versys and me on my 06 Uly. Any of you guys done that? Know some good campgrounds? Know some good routes and what to see? Hoping to find some nice campgrounds (not the KOA, parking lot type), especially for new years eve. | ||
| Ourdee |
Check your boots prior to putting them on in the mornings. | ||
| 7873jake |
There are soooo many good roads between where you are coming from and where you are going, I'm envious. My problem (among others  ) is that I've only driven many of them during the summer and to suggest you take them in Dec/Jan on a bike would be, wellll, at least a little wreckless on my part. I did a summer run down U.S. 395 from around Alturas, CA one year through Reno, down through Mammoth Lakes and eventually in to Victorville, Big Bear and down in to Palm Springs, eventually. This route goes past Mono Lake, skirts Yosemite and Sequoia N.P., all areas worth a stop. Again, it was warm enough to have slept on the ground during the time I did this so any suggestion as to where to camp would be based on my trip in warmer temps. I just remember that the number of campgrounds in some stretches was so high that throwing a dart at the map would hit something, with ease. From about Susanville, CA through to China Lake NWC, there was a place to camp. If you get to Joshua Tree and just have to have a night or two not in a tent, for the past five years, I've had great luck getting cheap (but NICE!) rental houses and hotel rates in Palm Springs in early January. There's lots of vacation real estate there just rotting on the hoof with the economy having taken a dump. (Scottsdale, AZ is another one but I digress...) | ||
| Strokizator |
Just about everywhere will be cold at night. Ricardo campground in Red Rock Canyon will at least offer some shelter from the wind. When in Death Valley, head east towards Beatty and then loop back through Titus Canyon if the Mrs. can handle some not too difficult dirt roads. | ||
| Tootal |
That time of year all I can say is not to camp at high altitudes. It might be the southwest but higher altitudes will be freezing! DAMHIK |
