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We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of Cannonville, UT
at an RJourney park. I believe these RJourney parks used to be KOA
places, but I'm not entirely sure. It's right on Utah 12 and is only a
10 minute drive or so to Bryce Canyon. I thought the place was just
fine. Reasonably priced, with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and firewood available.
The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet service
they had.
I have, but it just would not connect my laptop. I contacted their
support and they were unable to assign my MAC address for some reason or another they couldn't explain. So I could not use the laptop, wife
could not get her Android to hook up, and I had to log back in with a
new Iphone ever 5 minutes or so. The hook up to the network was just
fine, but the damn provider they had with the ridiculous sign on to get
to the internet was horrible. Trying to plan routes and do all the
things we take for granted these days become very apparent when you
can't get on the internet. Oh well. Here's a few pics of the little campground.
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xtcvz3827c15vxte0v8u8/RJourney1.JPG?rlkey=ugss0vmj0q2y31sg1syndq0e4&dl=0>
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5sp8pg4m5v87a8r8opwqs/RJourney2.JPG?rlkey=ogxtj7t53e0ifi6uoy6yr9yi2&dl=0>
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ozdrz0rgdjzny7r5g8weh/RJourney3.JPG?rlkey=7adnez04npqaxdjcanmk7unmb&dl=0>
Night time temps were a little warmer than our previous nights. It was around 38-40F or lows, and quickly warmed up in the morning. I watched
the sun rise over the hill each morning and really enjoyed that. We
did have to run the heater every night we were on the trip, used the gas
for hot water and taking showers, and cooked on the weber grill. I was amazed that I managed the whole trip, even with having to have the heat
on, without having to refill the tank and am just above 1/4 on the LP
tank level. Seemed very efficient to me for 15 nights of heat.
After three days of driving and acclimating to the elevation, we decided
the first day to take a nice easy hike. We were both ready to move and
do some walking. We headed to Bryce Canyon just up the road and did the Queens Garden/Navajo Loop hike. This is probably the most popular of
all the hikes in Bryce because it only has about 600 feet of climb and
is just shy of 3.5 miles in length. Unfortunately, that means you will
most likely have plenty of company. As we were so early in the season,
it wasn't overcrowded, but the 80F temps did bring out many people.
The trail shows a little of everything Bryce is famous for...
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vr2prwsjxugnfndbrzrr4/NavajoLoop.JPG?rlkey=b4qjic6xpt8vf8xwuf41fan1c&dl=0>
And on this trail everyone talks about the small section of switchbacks
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xykz8l4gb5ye3kqlp5ey9/Switchback.JPG?rlkey=mwljukwqq0lfpztut8kh6ccmy&dl=0>
Which were really not much to worry about. Still, the knee swelled up a
bit and we decided we'd do a day of hiking, and then a day of
off-roading from then on and hope I could keep up. Fortunately, my wife coddled me for the rest of the hiking.
Here's the track of the loop we did.
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6dflotom9t8a7t7q53ngm/NavajoTrack.jpg?rlkey=6301en5z0qozaqewo83uhbj16&dl=0>
It was a great start at seeing the area again and the weather was perfect!
sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of Cannonville, UT
at an RJourney park. I believe these RJourney parks used to be KOA
places, but I'm not entirely sure. It's right on Utah 12 and is only a
10 minute drive or so to Bryce Canyon. I thought the place was just
fine. Reasonably priced, with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and
firewood available.
The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet service
they had.
ItrCOs actually wi-fi service (IrCOm sure you know) and yourCOll be hard pressed
to find an RV park with decent wi-fi. Even the ones with a fee arenrCOt anything to write home about.
It was a great start at seeing the area again and the weather was perfect! >>
Nicereport and photos. As has been said here, itrCOs hard to not find beauty
in Utah.
On 5/4/2025 7:17 PM, George.Anthony wrote:
sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of
Cannonville, UT
at an RJourney park.-a I believe these RJourney parks used to be KOA
places, but I'm not entirely sure.-a It's right on Utah 12 and is
only a
10 minute drive or so to Bryce Canyon.-a I thought the place was just
fine.-a Reasonably priced, with clean bathrooms and showers,
laundry, and
firewood available.
The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet service
they had.
It|ore4raos actually wi-fi service (I|ore4raom sure you know) and you|ore4raoll be
hard pressed
to find an RV park with decent wi-fi. Even the ones with a fee aren|ore4raot >> anything to write home about.
Actually, I didn't find that to be the case.-a Both parks we stayed at
had wi-fi that was good.-a I believe most places are being forced to
start upgrading their service.-a At this place, hooking up to the wi-fi network was easy and good.-a The problem is their internet provider.
For that you have to log on a certain web page for some reason, just
like you do at hotels.-a The second place had the little poles just
like the first with the radio hardware on them at various points in
the park and hooking up there was also good.-a The difference was that
they provided the internet service access themselves and didn't make
you jump through hoops proving you were actually a customer there.-a If
you know the password and join the network, you have internet and can
do whatever you want.-a I'm not sure why places like hotels and the
first site do it this way, but my best guess is that this is how they control access a little more and keep people from stealing bandwidth.
---snip---
It was a great start at seeing the area again and the weather was
perfect!
-a Nicereport and photos. As has been said here, it|ore4raos hard to not
find beauty
in Utah.
Been busy, but more coming soon hopefully.
sticks wrote:
Actually, I didn't find that to be the case.-a Both parks we stayed at
had wi-fi that was good.-a I believe most places are being forced to
start upgrading their service.-a At this place, hooking up to the wi-fi
network was easy and good.-a The problem is their internet provider.
For that you have to log on a certain web page for some reason, just
like you do at hotels.-a The second place had the little poles just
like the first with the radio hardware on them at various points in
the park and hooking up there was also good.-a The difference was that
they provided the internet service access themselves and didn't make
you jump through hoops proving you were actually a customer there.-a If
you know the password and join the network, you have internet and can
do whatever you want.-a I'm not sure why places like hotels and the
first site do it this way, but my best guess is that this is how they
control access a little more and keep people from stealing bandwidth.
Occam's Razor suggests that the answer may be "follow the (potential) money". That becomes more likely if they want your email address and/or phone number.
We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of
Cannonville, UT at an RJourney park. I believe these RJourney
parks used to be KOA places, but I'm not entirely sure. It's
right on Utah 12 and is only a 10 minute drive or so to Bryce
Canyon. I thought the place was just fine. Reasonably priced,
with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and firewood
available.
The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet
service they had. I've had similar things happen in hotels
with an older laptop I have, but it just would not connect my
laptop. I contacted their support and they were unable to
assign my MAC address for some reason or another they couldn't
explain. So I could not use the laptop, wife could not get her
Android to hook up, and I had to log back in with a new Iphone
ever 5 minutes or so. The hook up to the network was just
fine, but the damn provider they had with the ridiculous sign
on to get to the internet was horrible. Trying to plan routes
and do all the things we take for granted these days become
very apparent when you can't get on the internet. Oh well.
On Sat, 3 May 2025 17:04:46 -0500,
sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of
Cannonville, UT at an RJourney park. I believe these RJourney
parks used to be KOA places, but I'm not entirely sure. It's
right on Utah 12 and is only a 10 minute drive or so to Bryce
Canyon. I thought the place was just fine. Reasonably priced,
with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and firewood
available.
I'm curious if you intentionally passed on camping at Kodachrome
St Park? It is maybe close to 30 minutes beyond the highway, so
that could sure be a factor.
---snip---The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet
service they had.
I keep active on my cell phone plan an option to use it as a
hotspot for just this reason. It's not optimal, but better than
nothing if I need to plan routes (car or bike), campgrounds, or
activities. My Acadia came with a data plan, so I can use it as a
hotspot if my phone isn't getting enough signal (two different
carriers).
I'm a little jealous of your visit to the Escalante Grand
Staircase. That's very much on my list, but we didn't have time
to see much of it when we were there a year ago. We did get
distant views from Bryce and Kodachrome, but distant.
Thanks for the reports and the pics!
On 5/8/2025 8:35 AM, Ted Heise wrote:
On Sat, 3 May 2025 17:04:46 -0500,
-a-a sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
-a We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of
-a Cannonville, UT at an RJourney park.-a I believe these RJourney
-a parks used to be KOA places, but I'm not entirely sure.-a It's
-a right on Utah 12 and is only a 10 minute drive or so to Bryce
-a Canyon.-a I thought the place was just fine.-a Reasonably priced,
-a with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and firewood
-a available.
I'm curious if you intentionally passed on camping at Kodachrome
St Park?-a It is maybe close to 30 minutes beyond the highway, so
that could sure be a factor.
Funny you mention that.-a Our next hiking day was to Kodachrome.-a We checked out all the camping spots there that day.-a We didn't look into
it when we were deciding where to stay, but one of the controlling
factors for us was access to water.-a We were in early April, and lots
of places just did not have it turned on yet.-a None that were in
Colorado near the border did until May 1.-a We saw the RJourney place,
liked the looks of it, fees were good, and they had heated water
lines.-a I didn't have a heated hose with, so for the first two nights
we just used the tank.-a It warmed up after that enough I could stay
hooked up.
Trying not to spoil my report, I will say that we were completely
impressed with not only this state park, but their camping spots
looked fantastic.-a Yeah, some were a little close to the thru drive,
but they all had plenty of room, apart from each other, and most had
shade of some sort.-a It looked like a real good place to stay if you
could get reservations.-a I got a feeling the sites that take
reservations must fill up in a hurry.-a The place had lots of people
there when we looked at it in early April.
---snip---
-a The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet
-a service they had.
I keep active on my cell phone plan an option to use it as a
hotspot for just this reason.-a It's not optimal, but better than
nothing if I need to plan routes (car or bike), campgrounds, or
activities.-a My Acadia came with a data plan, so I can use it as a
hotspot if my phone isn't getting enough signal (two different
carriers).
I had hoped we'd have enough service to do that as it's worked just
fine in the past.-a Unfortunately, Cannonville was absolutely no phone service at all from my carrier.-a Just up the road I had good 5G, but nothing where we stayed.
I'm a little jealous of your visit to the Escalante Grand
Staircase.-a That's very much on my list, but we didn't have time
to see much of it when we were there a year ago.-a We did get
distant views from Bryce and Kodachrome, but distant.
Thanks for the reports and the pics!
We went back to the Staircase in the next day report coming for more off-roading.-a The route we took I would have to say that if you could
only do one drive out there, this one would be it.-a A little bit of everything, and an all day affair.-a I don't think you could do this
one in the Acadia, but I was shocked at times to see how far people
got in with cars and even people pulling campers.-a I thought of Bill
many times on the trip when I would see boondockers.-a I got a feeling
some of them had to be towed out.
On 5/8/2025 8:35 AM, Ted Heise wrote:
On Sat, 3 May 2025 17:04:46 -0500,
sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of
Cannonville, UT at an RJourney park...
I'm curious if you intentionally passed on camping at
Kodachrome St Park? It is maybe close to 30 minutes beyond
the highway, so that could sure be a factor.
Funny you mention that. Our next hiking day was to Kodachrome.
We checked out all the camping spots there that day. We didn't
look into it when we were deciding where to stay, but one of
the controlling factors for us was access to water. We were in
early April, and lots of places just did not have it turned on
yet. None that were in Colorado near the border did until May
1. We saw the RJourney place, liked the looks of it, fees were
good, and they had heated water lines. I didn't have a heated
hose with, so for the first two nights we just used the tank.
It warmed up after that enough I could stay hooked up.
Trying not to spoil my report, I will say that we were
completely impressed with not only this state park, but their
camping spots looked fantastic. Yeah, some were a little close
to the thru drive, but they all had plenty of room, apart from
each other, and most had shade of some sort. It looked like a
real good place to stay if you could get reservations. I got a
feeling the sites that take reservations must fill up in a
hurry. The place had lots of people there when we looked at it
in early April.
I'm a little jealous of your visit to the Escalante Grand
Staircase. That's very much on my list, but we didn't have
time to see much of it when we were there a year ago. We did
get distant views from Bryce and Kodachrome, but distant.
Thanks for the reports and the pics!
We went back to the Staircase in the next day report coming for
more off-roading. The route we took I would have to say that
if you could only do one drive out there, this one would be it.
A little bit of everything, and an all day affair. I don't
think you could do this one in the Acadia, but I was shocked at
times to see how far people got in with cars and even people
pulling campers. I thought of Bill many times on the trip when
I would see boondockers. I got a feeling some of them had to
be towed out.
