A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

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A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby Tom&Shelly » Mon May 17, 2021 1:04 pm

Shelly and I took a 5 day (4 night) weekend for our 2nd teardrop trip and went to see a few places in Arizona. The first one is pretty well known

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We were able to make reservations at the Desert View campground, at the east end of the South Rim of Grand Canyon NP. Shelly thought she was reserving a back-in spot, but found her door right to the road. Oh well, the places were all booked, so we were lucky to get this spot. We tried out the DVD player the first night (The original Fahrenheit 451), which, along with charging our phones in a low/no reception area took our battery down to 95%. But we got up before dawn to get some good shots of the canyon, and put out the solar panel when we got back, for an hour or so while we made, ate, and cleaned up after breakfast, and were above 99% by the time we folded her up and went out for the day.

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Desert View had flush toilets, which I only mention because we spent the second two days at Ft Tuthill County campground, south of Flagstaff

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The photo shows all of the amenities offered at this campground. Our only real complaint is that the boxes were on the verge of needing pumping Friday, and by Sunday... Ah well! :frightened:

On the way down from the Grand Canyon to Flagstaff, we took a detour through Wupatki and Sunset Crater Volcano National Monuments. Not particularly well known, but well worth going through if you are in the area. Wupatki has old indian ruins

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and Sunset Crater is a--well, volcano--but also a great place to stop for lunch

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South of Flagstaff, we spent an hour at the Ft Tuthill museum, dedicated to the Arizona National Guard unit formed there in the 1930's and whose descendant unit served in Afghanistan recently

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They just opened and can use the support. The museum itself includes two of the barrack buildings, and has displays from pre-WWII on up. An interesting bit I learned is that the unit wore a swastika, an American Indian symbol, until the Nazis ruined that in the late 1930's.

We went on to look at Montezuma Well and Montezuma Castle National Monuments

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and Fort Verde State Historic Park, which preserves a fort from the 1880's

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We did not go into Red Rock State Park, but took some interesting evening pictures of the same skyline they advertise

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We had lots of positive comments on our teardrop

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and a few admonitions to drink plenty of water, or else!

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Unlike Tony, we don't carry a rubber snake (yet), so we weren't too concerned about these rules

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although we admire the discipline of the Park Service for attempting to enforce the rules on the snakes.

We forgot lunch one day and got severe sticker shock from a MacDonalds near Camp Verde (our first time eating McD's in well over a year--is COVID inflation really that bad?!). Sedona is a tourist trap, but an okay place to get ice cream.

We didn't have time to visit Jerome State Historic Park, Dead Horse State Park, or the Tuzigoot National Monument. The Palatki Heritage Site is temporarily closed, as is the V-V Heritage Site. Slide Rock State park is a natural water slide; Shelly hurt herself there when she was a kid, so we didn't go back, but it looked busy when we drove by.

Sedona was in the 90's last weekend, and so I think we would wait until Fall to camp in this area again. Some Winter, we may try camping at Williams AZ and take the train up to the Grand Canyon to see it in snow.

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Re: A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby twisted lines » Mon May 17, 2021 1:40 pm

Pre Trip's appreciated
Look's good too :thumbsup:
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Re: A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby TimC » Mon May 17, 2021 1:41 pm

Thanks for the post Tom. Adding to my dream trip punch list...
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Re: A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby pchast » Mon May 17, 2021 8:44 pm

Thanks for the pictures of your trip. :D
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Re: A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby tony.latham » Mon May 17, 2021 8:48 pm

How was the weather? I assume it's heating up down there?

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Re: A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby Tom&Shelly » Mon May 17, 2021 9:09 pm

tony.latham wrote:How was the weather? I assume it's heating up down there?

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Still high 30's at night. Nice in the tear with a wool blanket.

Shorts weather soon as the Sun is up. I was surprised at how long into the morning folks at Fort Tuthill campground were wearing winter jackets until I realized they'd driven up from Phoenix the evening before. It's what you're used to, I guess.

Altitude makes a difference. At Ft Tuthill, around 7000 ft, it was in the high 70's/low 80's during the day; in Sedona, around 4000 ft, it was in the mid-90's.

BTW, it wasn't in the forecast at all, but here in the East Mountains of New Mexico we had rain, thunder and mid-60's weather today. Big surprise! :rainy:

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Re: A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby tony.latham » Mon May 17, 2021 9:17 pm

we had rain...


We need it badly here. About .02" this spring.

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Re: A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby Tom&Shelly » Mon May 17, 2021 9:22 pm

tony.latham wrote:
we had rain...


We need it badly here. About .02" this spring.

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We can use it here too. Shelly may experience culture shock when we go to the Northeast and find folks who don't like all the rain!

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Re: A few things to see in Northeastern Arizona

Postby Modstock » Tue May 18, 2021 10:23 pm

We had snow yesterday when we left grand canyon north. Even around Hatch, Utah had snow.

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