2018 Summer Road Trip
Post date: Jan 16, 2018 4:50:58 PM
Quick Facts
June 16th-24th
Austin-> Roswell, NM -> Coconino National Forest, AZ -> White Sands, NM -> Austin
Headcount
If your name has a question mark by it, please respond to this email and let me know whether or not you can come
- Andrew
- Lynna
- Rana
- Elyes
- Jill
- Grant
- Anna
- Sabrina
- Audrie?
Responsibilities
Paperwork: Grant
Reservations: Anna
Food: Rana
Backpacking: ??
Gear Shakedown: Lynna
Permits: Andrew
Transportation: Andrew
Cars and Drivers
Jill and the Black Beast (Honda Pilot) - seats 8
Elyes and Lady Urbanina - seats 7
Map
Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/ivxFrzbJMP32
Itinerary
Day 1 (06/16):
- Mileage: 0 -> 510 Miles
- Depart: 6:30 am MUD Annex, Austin 78728
- Arrive: 4:00 pm, Bottomless Lake State Park, Roswell, NM 88201
- Meals
- Breakfast: come fed
- Lunch: Fruit, cheese, and deli meat kabobs - ate at park along the way
- Dinner: chicken, bean, and cheese burritos - ate at Bottomless Lake State Park
- Activities
- Swimming
- Telescope
- Short Hikes
- Synchronized swimming
- Comments
- Very windy, some rain during the night
- Saw Venus and Jupiter and moon
- Loud partying neighbors
- Last night with running water (e.g. shower)
Day 2 (06/17):
- Mileage: 510 -> 928 Miles
- Depart: 8:30 am Bottomless Lake State Park
- Arrive 9 am UFO Museum Roswell
- Arrive 5 pm Petrified Forest National Park
- Meals
- Dinner: Yibin Chinese Stir Fry with fried Tofu
- Breakfast: Fiest Omelet and fruit
- Lunch: Chicken Salad, Egg Salad, pickles, fruit
- Activities
- Camped in the Painted Desert
- Cooked food at the headquarters after hours
- Stargazed
Day 3 (06/18):
- Petrified Forest National Park to Coconino National Forest
- We’ll visit…
- Meteor Crater
- Painted Desert?
- To-do
- Camping area near Kachina Peaks Wilderness or hotel/motel?
- Do we want to visit the Painted Desert and go 1 hour out of our way?
Day 4 (06/19):
- Check out the Flagstaff area of Coconino
- Kachina Peaks Wilderness
- Humphrey’s Peak
- Weatherford trail (8.7 miles one-way)
- Humphrey’s trail (5-5.5 miles one-way)
- Humphrey’s Peak
- Kachina Peaks Wilderness
Day 5 (06/20):
- Check out the Flagstaff area of Coconino
- Lava River Cave (1 mile)
- Sycamore Wilderness
- Parson’s Trail #144
- To-do
- Camping area at Sycamore Wilderness
Day 6 (06/21):
- Check out the Red Rock area of Coconino
- AB young trail (2.4 miles w/ 33 switchbacks one-way)
- Devil’s Bridge (1.6 miles round-trip)
- Lots of really good trails to check out
- To-do
- Camping area in the Red Rock area
Day 7 (06/22):
- Check out the Mogollon Rim area of Coconino
- There’s different trails throughout the Cabin Loop system
- To-do
- Camping area at Mogollon Rim
- Food Plan
Day 8 (06/23):
- Mogollon rim to Alamogordo KOA
- We’ll visit…
- Saguaro National Park (lunch stop)
- White Sands National Monument
- To-do
- Make reservations at the Alamogordo KOA
- Figure out if there’s a fee to enter Saguaro National Park
Day 9 (06/24):
- Alamogordo KOA to Austin
Food
Packing List
Below is the link for a 3 Day Backpacking List. I think it's a good list for the trip because:
- it includes all the important stuff
- it's compact (we only have so much room to store stuff in the cars)
- it will allow us to go backpacking should we choose to do so.
Additional items I would add:
- bathing suit
- camp chair
Fees
National Park Pass: Each pass covers entrance fees at national parks and national wildlife refuges as well as standard amenity fees (day use fees) at national forests and grasslands, and at lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A pass covers entrance, standard amenity fees and day use fees for a driver and all passengers in a personal vehicle at per vehicle fee areas (or up to four adults at sites that charge per person). Children age 15 or under are admitted free.
Road Trip Movies
The Straight Story
Fandango
Badlands
College Road Trip
The Muppet Movie
Are We There Yet
Brother Where Art Thou?
Sure Thing
Smokey and Bandit
Cannonball Run
Wild Hogs