Hello fellow wanderers!
I wanted to reach out and let you all know what we have been up to this year. We have been fortunate enough to travel as much as possible this year and have visited so many amazing places and have accomplished so many epic hikes. We have a ton of content to share with you from this year's travels and can't wait to get more videos posted for you!
13 National Parks so far
7 State Parks so far
Earlier this year in March we spent two weeks in Laughlin, NV. Here we explored Lake Havasu, Grand Canyon West (video on YouTube), Mojave National Preserve (Lava Tube on YouTube), Oatman (video on YouTube) and of course the city of Laughlin along the Colorado River. We stayed at the Laughlin / Avi Casino KOA.
In April we moved to Lone Pine, California on the 395 corridor for two weeks. We stayed at Boulder Creek RV and explored Lone Pine, Whitney Portal, hiked to Lone Pine Lake and Tuttle Creek Ashram, Alabama Hills, Manzanar and Death Valley.
In June we spent two weeks at the KOA in Williams. We explored the Route 66 town of Williams, Arizona, a little bit of Flagstaff but more importantly, we hiked the Rim to Rim trail in the Grand Canyon. I will be doing a separate blog about our R2R hike and will be providing specific information about our 5 night backpacking trip on our Patreon - Wandered Off on Patreon.com.
Then our summer trip started! We cruised over and spent a week in Crescent City at the KOA (see previous blog and video) while we explored the Redwoods and surrounding area including Battery Point Lighthouse, a few coastal trails, Fern Canyon, Klamath and Jedediah Smith State Park.
Then we cruised up the coast to Coos Bay, Oregon. We spent a week at Box Car Hill Campground (video on YouTube) playing on the sand dunes with family. We hiked up to Golden and Silver water falls, hiked Sunset Bay State Park and visited the Sea Lion Caves along with Horsfall Beach and a few other areas. Oh yeah... Chris won the annual family corn hole tourney.
First week of August we cruised over to Dubois, Wyoming and stayed a week at the KOA. We explored this charming little cowboy town to its fullest, went to the Friday night rodeo, visited the military vehicle museum, hiked Torrey Creek and Dubois Badlands, Jenny Lake in Teton and did a dinner and float through Teton on Snake River along with cruising around Jackson and riding the Cowboy Mountain Coaster. We had a blast in Dubois and highly recommend it.
We then headed up to North Dakota to spend a couple of weeks with our daughter and granddaughter. We spent most of our time with family so we did not hike at all but we visited the zoo in Minot and Bismark, the Scandinavian Heritage Park in Minot, ND State Museum in Bismark, a Farmers Market and other family friendly spots. We stayed at Rough Rider RV Park the entire time and this was our second time at Rough Rider. The staff is amazing!
Ever been to Hot Springs, South Dakota?? We only spent a week here and could easily have stayed a month or two. So much to do! We stayed at the KOA which is close to town and the Mammoth Site. We visited Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore, Rush Adventure Park, we hiked Cathedral Spires, toured Wall Drug and visited Badlands National Park. We also saw the laser light show at Crazy Horse National Monument and visited Wind Cave National Park. I am sure I left something out but such a great area to be in!
While we stayed in Hot Springs, we also cruised down one day to see Car Henge and Toadstool Geological Park a couple of hours South of Hot Springs in Nebraska.
We left Hot Springs and headed to Fort Collins, Colorado for a week. We stayed at the KOA and explored Fort Collins and Rocky Mountain National Park. We had not realized that RMNP implemented a reserved timed entry so we were only able to access the park one day. During this day we hiked the Four Lakes Loop Trail. Beautiful regardless!
Then we headed to Southern Utah for the month of September. Neither of us had ever been to Moab so we were excited to spend two weeks in Moab at the KOA. Arches, Canyonlands, Dead Horse Point, La Sal, we rafted the Colorado River, we rappelled Grand Staff Canyon (video on YouTube) and we explored Moab to its fullest. We have some great hikes logged from this stay and we cannot wait to go back!
Next stop.. Page, Arizona. We stayed a week at the Wahweap Marina RV Park. We have to say.. this was our favorite spot by far. Absolutely stunning views from the RV! We paddle boarded Lake Powell out to Lone Rock (which is dry), we explored the area and visited Horseshoe Bend, Lees Ferry, Marble Canyon and hiked the Cathedral Wash Trail. Cell service and WiFi was pretty non-existent so we left a week early. We were going to stay two weeks. But we will be back!
And.... last but not least.. we stayed a week in Kanab at the newly built Grand Plateau RV Resort. We hiked Toadstool Hoodoos and Paria Canyon to Buckskin Gultch and we explored everything that Kanab has to offer. We need to come back to Kanab with our Jeep. Rain made most of the roads impassible for us in our F350. But Kanab is in our soul.
And then of course, our backyard is Lake Tahoe. When we are home we have full access to the Tahoe area and everything that it has to offer.
We have so much content to share with you and we hope you subscribe to our channel so you don't miss anything. Our goal is to create a wandered off community that empowers others to live their life to the fullest, whatever that may be!
We are already planning our next trip so we hope you join us in our Wandered off journey!
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Chris & Brandi
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