Leaving Idaho we headed for Moab, where we dropped off our camper at the OK RV Park and continued traveling with the truck to attend Dick’s nieces wedding in Grandby, CO.
Our first stop in Utah was the Golden Spike NHS. This NHS is located at Promontory Summit, about 30 miles due west of Brigham City, UT. At this historic spot, on May 10th, 1869, the final railroad spike was driven for the first transcontinental railroad. The Central Pacific Railroad came from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad came from the east. The NHS is well maintained and there are working replicas of the two engines that used the railroad during that period.
We then drove to Willard Bay SP campground (CG). The CG is located adjacent to I84/15 on the northeast finger of the Great Salt Lake, near Brigham City. The CG was clean, well maintained with lots of big trees, but with There was a fair amount of traffic noise. A short walk takes you the shore of Willard Bay.
Continuing south on I84/15 to Spanish Fork we exited on Route 6 heading southeast to the town of Green River, and Green River SP. This SP is one of the nicest state parks we have stayed in. It has electric at most sights, a potable water faucet and a dump station. The sites are spaced well apart amid giant cottonwood trees. We have stayed here before and love the place. It is truly an oasis in a very sparsely populated desert area. In midsummer the area has the tastiest melons that we have ever had. There is an excellent museum in town that depicts the travels and adventures of John Wesley Powell. Goblins SP, with very unusual geologic formations, is about 50 miles west and south.
We then continued east and south, passing the entrance to Arches NP, through Moab to the OK RV Park campground. The RV Park is located about 6 miles south of the city, a good distance from Route 191. The truck noise from the highway was minimum and did not disturb our sleep.

After spending three days in Colorado at the wedding, we returned to the Moab and the OK RV Park. (See the Colorado Gallery)

We met Dick’s brother and his wife at the entrance to Arches NP where we continued inside the park where saw the awesome geologic features that the park is noted for. We visited the park at two different times of the day viewing the effects of the changing light conditions (color, texture and shadows) had on the varying land forms. There are over 2000 natural stone arches in the park, many of which are only a short walk from the paved road. In addition to the stone arches, there are such things as massive balanced rocks, soaring pinnacles and towering sheer rock formations. We have tried not to duplicate the photos that we took here in our trip in 2008.
The next day we visited Canyonlands NP. The path made by water cutting the layers of rock from the plateau down to the Colorado and Green Rivers is unequaled by anything made by man. The shape of the eroded pattern, the different rock textures and variety of rock layer colors, leaves me speechless and in awe. Canyonlands NP allows one a view of this erosion process looking down. I feel “goose bumps” just writing about it. Another attraction of the Moab area, not discovered by us on previous trips, were the petroglyphs (carvings of human figures, animals and symbols) on the cliffs along the Colorado River. There are many elaborate examples of the rock art visible from the road. One illustration found on a boulder shows the birthing of a baby.
From Moab the four of us then headed south to a CG in Blanding, UT. Since trip from Moab was only about 3 hours, we set up the camper and the spent the rest of the day in Monument Valley, a Navajo Tribal Park. Many of the formations, when seen, will seem familiar even if you have never been there because of the many movies made there and the travel companies brochures. Our photos cannot depict, nor am I capable of describing the feeling you get driving and standing among these geologic formations. Once the area has