We left home on Wednesday, September 10th heading for Cave Lake, NV. We've been there several times and love it. We got there mid afternoon and the place was packed! We checked out the lake and campground. Nope, so we headed to their other campground, Elk Flat. We were able to find a site that had one night we could camp. It was lovely. The next morning the people there pulled out and they had one night too that the spot would be empty.
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| This mountain always let's us know we're almost to Cave Lake |
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| Beautiful Cave Lake |
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| Really nice campsites |
A few years back Nevada implented a reservation system for state parks. If the state park doesn't have electrical hookups with Ken's senior pass ($30.00 a year) we get to camp for free. If it has hookups it's $10.00 a night. Cave Lake has no hookups. The first site we stayed in the people never showed up and by the time we left on Friday they still hadn't showed up. The site stayed empty. Guess if they weren't paying for the site they didn't bother to cancel. 1 big flaw! A lot of people came through the campground, but couldn't find a site and had to leave. Just not right.
We hadn't made reservations thinking we wouldn't have a problem, but now we know. We had actually made contact with our friends Doug and Michelle, as they were traveling, but they were almost home so they weren't in our area then. Turned out it was a good thing, but we were hoping to get to see them.
Friday morning we headed out with staying on the west side of Salt Lake City at a truck stop our destination. Sure didn't want to go through there with Friday traffic.
We had a great night at the TA stop.
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| Here we are in-between these two. They actually pulled in long after we were sleeping. We didn't hear a thing! |
Saturday we headed for Bear Valley State Park near Garden City, Utah and the Idaho border. We were here 3 years ago and really enjoyed it. Enjoying it again! 💗
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| All along Nevada highways the sagebrush is in full bloom! |
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| Utah is one of my favorite states as its so beautiful. |
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| How we started our Champagne Sunday at Bear Lake 💖 |
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| Our first time making pizza in our oven. It did great just took about 3 times longer (30min) then home. That's ok we had no plans. 😀 It was worth the wait! |
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| Bear Lake State Park has full hookups, bathrooms with showers, huge sites, green grass $40.00 a night and no reservations. There's a lot of people here, but plenty of good sites still available! |
We thought we'd stay 2 nights but it looks like it'll be 4 before moving on.
Today we're taking a drive to Garden City, Utah just to check it out. 😊
Wednesday we'll head west and start the drive home. Our first stop is City of Rocks in Idaho.
Have a wonderful day! 💖
A nice little getaway. Sometimes things work out differently and yet still we have a good time.
ReplyDeleteThat pizza, gets me every time! Looks so yummy!
Thanks Patsy. It has been a wonderful trip. Pizza is delicious for sure!
DeleteI bet it felt nice to be on the road again. I miss the adventure of it. Our next extended road trip is not until February.
ReplyDeleteWe have enjoyed our little trip. :) February will be here before you know it!
DeleteYou pizza looks GREAT!! I always try to have reservations, mostly because I need hookups for the kids. It's terribly rude of folks not to cancel so someone else can use the site. They should say if you're not in by 5:00 pm the site can be used by anyone.
ReplyDeleteHonestly Nevada needs to rethink their reservation system. Yesterday same thing, people not in their spots for as long as two days that I can see :(
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