Tusayan, Arizona Campin’
A turn onto NF 302 yielded a view with quite a contrast to my earlier campsites. Look! Actual trees!
The town of Tusayan, Arizona borders the southern entrance to the Grand Canyon. Oh boy, the Grand Canyon! Well, not this trip, odd as it sounds. My goal was simply to see what the area is like for travel trailer campers like myself. To get a feel for the place. I have, and if you restrict the discussion to dispersed camping, it’s a mix that is the natural result of heavy commercialization.
The initial drive in with trailer in tow netted a view of three elk about to cross the road at the bend ahead!
On the way up here on 64, I noticed plenty of inviting National Forest roads branching off this way and that. Looking at a Motor Vehicle Usage Map , the Tusayan area is loaded with roads open to dispersed camping. I’m very curious to explore some of them in order to see what camping situations they offer, but I quickly found three impediments to doing that.
I stopped, the Ford’s diesel quietly rattling away, and they decided it was better to get across now, before the big red box with the even bigger white box got any closer.
Those impediments are first, that the tangled nest of available roads cover miles and miles of range instead of being a tight pack with numerous branches.
Second, the easiest way to explore those roads is Read more…
Strolling Amok 