From Mt. Pleasant we traveled to Duchesne, Utah and the Lakeside RV Park. We crested a peak at 9115 feet above sea level on the way there. It is not getting any easier to breath up here folks. LOL.
Dennis’ birthday was the day we arrived in Deuchesne and, as usual, his birthday fell on PIZZA DAY! So we went in search of some pizza and were not disappointed. There aren’t many restaurants in this small town, but this pizza was superb!
The lake is actually a reservoir, Starvation Reservoir. I would love to know how that name came about. It is a beautiful body of water. The RV park is on the lake, but above it, so you have to drive down the hill (a very steep hill) to their boat launch. They have a nice clubhouse here but it was still closed due to Covid. Strangely enough, we haven’t found that at all in Utah. They are wide open everywhere else - even in town here. Dennis told me the office was a wreck (glad I didn’t go in with him, I would have starting cleaning up). I just think they are too lazy to have to start cleaning that room again. The park is nothing to write home about but we had a storm come through just north of us our last night and it dumped a ton of snow on the mountains and gave us a beautiful sunset.
We did not have the best of weather here either. It was rainy and cold most of the time. We even bought a puzzle at the grocery store and put it together.
The view of Starvation Reservoir from the graveyard adjacent to the RV Park.
No worries, it wasn’t haunted.
It was freezing cold and Dennis went out to watch the sun set. I did not follow.
The shot I got from the camp site was beautiful.
The mountains when we arrived compared to the same mountains after the storm.
They were totally covered with snow when we left.
We did pull out our AllTrails app and found two nearby trails we were gonna hike. We got to the first one beside a river and they had fenced it off and had cattle on the property so we took off for the other trail and found it fenced off as well. In all the time we have been using this app we have never found a trail closed. I suppose we will need to start checking the dates of the reviews from now on. There are an awful lot of new homes being built around here. I guess the new land owners just don’t want strangers trekking through their property. Can’t say as I blame them.
The town wasn’t much to look at either, but they had a really nice Veterans Memorial.
We have one more stop in Utah before we head into Wyoming. A friend of mine mentioned how beautiful Flaming Gorge was so we booked a spot near Dutch John, Utah at the Pine Forest RV Park adjacent to the Flaming Gorge Resort. This place had grass everywhere - I couldn’t believe it. But they also have a check-in time of 4PM. So I called and found out why and all that grass is why. They water constantly and water between guests at the RV sites. But we were able to get in early anyway. They were the nicest people on the planet. We visited with them quite a bit.
Look at all this beautiful grass! I have missed grass so much!
This park is between a national forest and the Lodge. There are trails that lead directly to a portion of the Flaming Gorge and it was spectacular!
Beside the pond there was this tiny little cabin.
This is the pond the owners of the park said they water their land with.
It is on national forest land, but if you don’t tell, I won’t tell.
I just loved how the trees reflected in this picture.
The Green River flowing through the gorge.
We never stay on track in our hiking anymore. We hear a bird or some critter and scurry off to see if we can figure out what it is or get a picture. But never have we seen a ribcage in the distance. We had to check this out too. It was a pretty spooky feeling.
They also had a trail over to the Lodge where they have rafting tours, guided fishing trips and all kinds of other things to do. The fishing, I have read, is some of the best in the US. We did not book a guided fishing trip, but one day I would like to learn to fly fish. I think that would be fun. The restaurant at the lodge was pretty amazing. We ate there twice.
We had a fire pit here, so we built us a big fire, cooked some steak and really enjoyed the cool evening air. We had intended to finish off the wood we bought the following night, but then those dang lawn watering kids watered down our fire pit. They did move the unburned wood before starting the sprinklers, but there were two good logs in the pit sopping wet now. I made Dennis pick it up and bring it with us to our next park. I am gonna burn that some day.
On the way back from our hike we found a family of Yellow Bellied Marmots - I didn’t get any good shots of the two babies, but the mom wasn’t too worried about us at all. In the shot below she is watching Dennis and having lunch. We had seen one of these in Maple Canyon and all I could compare it to was a nutria rat - they gotta be kin. But the owner of the campground came out to visit with us while we were admiring these little guys and he said they were the marmots.
We also took a scenic drive while we were there and I could never properly explain (nor do these pictures show) the extreme beauty of this place. It almost wears you out gasping at all the beauty all day long.
We started off at the top of the gorge.
Drove down into the gorge at one point.
This beautiful stream is just meandering through.
I wish this picture showed the depth here. It was amazing.
When I saw this sign I made D turn this truck around.
This is on the opposite side of the highway from the amazing views of the gorge.
I guess in a place like Utah it is all so very beautiful and you gotta put you garbage somewhere.
Our next stop will be in Wyoming. We will be checking out the Western part this time around and be close to the Grand Tetons. I let you know what we think when we get there.
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