Ep. 306: Burr Trail, Utah | RV travel camping hiking RVlife

This week we kick off the Grand Adventure 2023 travel season boondocking along the Burr Trail, a 75-mile route pioneered in the mid-1800s through one of the most sparsely populated areas in the lower 48. It's a rugged road connecting the tiny hamlet of Boulder in southern Utah with the even smaller locale called Bullfrog, on the shores of upper Lake Powell. It started out as a livestock trail, and it didn't change much for the next 75 years or so. Pioneer Josephine Catherine Chatterly Wood wrote in 1882 that the Burr Trail, “…is the most God-forsaken and wild-looking country that was ever traveled.” While camping we'll explore the area including a slot canyon, searching for ancient cliff dwellings, visiting Anasazi State Park, and of course traveling the entire route that passes through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Capitol Reef National Park, so come along!

Filmed: April 28-May 5, 2023

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CHAPTERS

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:49 Burr Trail
• 2:03 Camping along the Burr Trail
• 4:09 Our new tow vehicle "The Beast"
• 4:55 Trials of RV life
• 6:55 SPONSOR: RV Mattress by Brooklyn Bedding
• 9:00 Boulder & Anasazi State Park
• 11:53 Hell's Backbone & Kiva Koffeehouse
• 14:06 Singing Canyon
• 16:07 Searching for cliff dwellings
• 19:16 Burr Trail to Bullfrog
• 27:02 Bullfrog on Lake Powell
• 28:08 Wrap-up and what's next

FOR MORE INFORMATION

• Our campsite https://goo.gl/maps/DbndQNk4tcokBzBe7
• Anasazi State Park https://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/anasazi/
• Kiva Koffeehouse https://www.kivakoffeehouse.com/
• Singing Canyon https://goo.gl/maps/xPYxMKyVkqAMYqRF9
• Camping in Bullfrog https://www.lakepowell.com/rv-camping/rv-camping-experience/

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Grand Adventure is the creative video outlet for Marc Guido, a 50-something outdoors enthusiast who first added an RV to his gear bag in spring 2017. Outside of ski season he travels the U.S. in his fifth wheel RV trailer with his lovely wife Patricia, and their overly-caffeinated Labrador retriever Zoe. During winter, they base their RV in Salt Lake City for the skiing.