Summer Desert NON camping trip! 😁

[robtattoo]

This looks awesome.

The wife wants to do something similar next year. I want to go hunting (any big game, really). We're trying to math out a critter where we can get two tags before winter hits and do both (hunt/sightsee) on the same trip. The wife wants to see the Four Corners area, maybe Zion/Monument Valley and maybe some stuff in CO or NM.

If you bowhunt, I'm pretty sure you can get OTC elk tags in Utah (I could be wrong, it's been a long time since I looked) A buddy of mine had hunted the high Uintahs a few times, OTC.

Zion is beautiful, but very small & crowded. Bryce Canyon & Red Canyon are 99% as spectacular, free & have a much better roads (Hwy 24 from I70 south to Torrey, then 12 southwest from Torrey to Panguich) They're some of the most beautiful roads I've ever ridden & the scenery is a constantly changing, endless jawdropper. From there, you're only another hour down to Zion.

 

[Chris in TN]

If you bowhunt, I'm pretty sure you can get OTC elk tags in Utah (I could be wrong, it's been a long time since I looked) A buddy of mine had hunted the high Uintahs a few times, OTC.

Zion is beautiful, but very small & crowded. Bryce Canyon & Red Canyon are 99% as spectacular, free & have a much better roads (Hwy 24 from I70 south to Torrey, then 12 southwest from Torrey to Panguich) They're some of the most beautiful roads I've ever ridden & the scenery is a constantly changing, endless jawdropper. From there, you're only another hour down to Zion.

I bowhunt and love it but the kids aren't there yet so most of my bowhunting happens within 300 yards of the house. We'll probably either try to do a cow elk hunt or whatever we can burn our mule deer/pronghorn points on.

I have some specific things I want to do, that are within our reach points-wise, in SD/WY, but the wife wants to see the UT/AZ/NM area and honestly so do I. I guess I could apply for that Valles Caldera elk tag.

I'm going to take what you said about Bryce and Red Canyons and tell the wife.

 

[Glendon Mullins]

@robtattoo this is freakin awesome man