UTAH (and Surrounding Areas) BS Thread

I checked over the weekend and it still says no camping and if caught, you’ll be fined.

The trails are open and I think you can stay in a hotel, but for whatever reason no camping.

you seeing something different?

 

Yea, Moab started relaxing some restrictions but camping is still prohibited. You could stay in an AirBNB or RV park I think...

 

Information on Moab and COVID-19

https://www.discovermoab.com/covid-19/

Essentially, you can do everything but camp.

Visiting, recreating or both? I'm guessing everything outdoors is crowded. One will have to go to hard to get to place to escape the crowds, I imagine.

 

Thats what im understanding. Gonna hotel it for a few days probably. And hit some trails with jeep bro, so need some tacoma bros, lolz

 

I get the impression that there are quite a few people going to Moab this weekend.

 

Im in Cortez CO right now, only a couple hours from moab and definatly would be willing to go over at least for a day to run some trails

 

I was down there 2 weekends ago and didnt see hardly a soul other than my camp buddies.

 

there is one thing missing from that pic. Do you know what it is?

Where approximately are you?

I was looking to maybe go to the Swell this weekend.

 

Im going on 28th of may weekend

 

In the vicinity of Hurricane

 

interested, when can we camp in the county

 

Is the La Sal National Forest an option?

 

San Juan county just south of Moab is open to dispersed/primitive camping.

 

Probably be open by the time I go down in a few weeks!! Would be kool to go with some local tacoma homeez!!

 

Very odd thing this Covid scenerio.... Would think campin' in the middle of nowhere would be allowed but Big Brother knows best.

 

Stayed at this unmarked private campground once. Was completely empty and cheap. Good spots and portaShitterz close. Just fill out tag and drop some $$ in da box. Did poison spider,golden spike, gold bar rim, and exited gemini bridges to randomly find this place right at end of trail!

 

I’ve wondered the same thing, I guess some of it came down to cleaning the outhouses and using resources such as search and rescue. So much of it doesn’t make sense. I had some very nice reservations in the backcountry of the needles district. Sadly they got cancelled. Back there is social distancing at its finest.

 

The government camping is still closed but the spot I mentioned is a private spot and is primitive camping with port O johns

 

I'm sure Moab will ease up here pretty soon. SLC has eased up quite a bit. Finally.

 

I'm not so sure. I think they are seeing the BLM freecamping "Lord of the Flies" disaster happening right over the border in the Grand Junction area and are gonna keep tight for a while. GJ has the benefit of a large IMC grade hospital right in town, Moab has nothing of the kind.