Gorgeous Utah State Park

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half cracked.

What do you think about having a view like this right out your window?  Some folks would pay a pretty penny to be able to enjoy this 24 hours a day.  In an RV you can have many beautiful views.  This is just one.

Sand Hollow State Park

 

Tuesday the sun was shining and the temperature was expected to continue climbing this week all the way up to 80..  We had been in the same little park for over a week.  It was definitely a good day to venture outside.  We had also thought it was a beautiful day to check out a future move.  Now it’s not that we intended to move a long distance.  We didn’t.  It was just a short distance.  As usual we had started trekking north a tad early.  Well, I shouldn’t say “tad” because we’re really about a month early.  The farther north we head the colder it gets and there’s still a chance of snow up there.

At most state parks when we’ve asked to just drive through and look at it, we’ve been given a short time period to do just that.  However, that wasn’t allowed at this one.  We had to pay the daily rate of $5 to even get on the grounds.  What a beautiful park it is and we felt it beckoning us to move.

Full hook-up RV site

It’s not that we weren’t in a nice park. We were in a nice park but we’ve been corrupted by the people we hang out with. They have introduced us to something we just seem to like better than super duper RV parks or resorts. We’ve become rather attached to wide open spaces where we don’t have neighbors so close they can look in our windows. It wasn’t so long ago I didn’t really want to stay at state parks. We wanted the pool and the hot tub and the other amenities. Things have certainly changed. Sometimes we like those things but most of all we like the space and the freedom. 

There are two sides to this park.  One side is all full hookups with no ATV’s or OHV’s allowed. This side has a beautiful mountain view and partial water view. The other side has a few sites with hookups but most sites are dry camping.  The view on this side is where the top photo was taken … gorgeous!   Some of the RV sites can be booked online and some are reserved for drive-up only.  Then, there are others that are considered primitive.  In the primitive section you can just pull off the road where you’ll fit.  Even picnic tables can be found in the primitive section.

Lots of fishermen and OHV’s frequent this park.   The boat launch and trailer parking is huge.  I don’t know if these fellows were catching or just fishing.

Like I said, the park we’ve been at is nice but the spaces aren’t this large and the scenery doesn’t compare.  Thus, we’ve decided if we need to kill time while the northern temperatures warm up and the snow goes away, we’d rather do it at a place like this. Duchess will be happier!  We’re thinking we might just move the little ten miles.  At least that’s what we’re thinking.

‘Tis life on the road.