While in Marysvale we were fortunate to meet some new friends to enjoy riding the trails and sharing tasty meals.
The Paiute trail is one not to be missed, with miles and miles of beautiful scenery to explore. This summer we rode about 650 miles in our RZR- and most of those miles were right from our campground in Marysvale, Utah!
We left on Friday morning for our final road trip back to our home in Cottonwood, Arizona. Driving along Hwy 89 we passed through red rocks and over the Colorado river, skirting the edges of monsoon storms near Flagstaff before descending into the Verde Valley where our truck’s thermometer read 104 degrees!
We drove 4,995 miles on our truck this year, mostly towing our Heartland Road Warrior toyhauler loaded with our RZR and Caleb’s Honda 250EX quad. We were fortunate to spend 57 nights and 58 days on the road exploring. Diesel was about $3.70 per gallon and the price went down as the summer progressed.
We are settled back into our home in time for the quickly approaching school year. Our summer trip was unforgettable, full of joy and laughter. We spent two weeks enjoying the lake up in Canada, fishing and kneeboarding, and three weeks riding the Paiute trails with our side by side and quad. We bundled up in the ponderosa pines of Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim and were misted by the spray of geysers at Yellowstone National Park on father’s day. We look forward to future journeys along the trail!
Back in beautiful Marysvale, we headed out for the Deer Creek Trail.
Crossing over the Sevier River, we headed towards side trail #74.
Just beyond Hoover’s, the large rock cliffs came into sight.
And then our ride came to a halt! Raspberries were spotted by the creek and anyone who knows Caleb knows he LOVES berries!
So we picked and he munched until a glance up at the sky told us we needed to move along the trail.
Flowers and butterflies graced our way over the creek crossings.
We travelled up to the top where the side trail joins with the Paiute 01, eating lunch at the meadow fence that Chris and Caleb helped construct a few weeks ago.
Caleb’s new tires traversed the rocky fields with ease as he was now fueled with raspberries!
Twenty-seven miles round trip was perfect timing
to arrive back at the trailer before the monsoon opened up the sky!
Another beautiful ride on the Paiute trail!
We set off for a day of Geocaching on the trail and our first stop brought us to the “original” UTV- Flintstone style!
Caleb explores the contents of one of our finds as we ride along the area known as the “maze” due to all the mining roads.
Geocaching is like modern day hide and seek using points on a GPS.
Blending in with the red rocks, the Palmer’s Penstemon is in full bloom.
After several geocache finds, we rode down towards the infamous Big Rock Candy Mountain. The resort serves up great tasting BBQ which we enjoyed for dinner.
Another beautiful day in the Sevier river valley with highs in the upper 80’s!
