While doing this, I tried SUV camping for the first time. When I visited Valley of Fire, I was on a road trip to see some Southwest National Parks. Tip: You can also camp for free on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land located outside the park boundaries, you will see RVs parked on the BLM land as you drive toward the park along the Valley of Fire Hwy after exiting off I-15 N. Boy, was I wrong! There was already a line to enter the park, and the ranger at the entrance station told me the camping spots were full. If you can get a campsite, I highly recommend it! You’ll have more time to explore the park, plus you get to experience sunrise and sunset and see how the sun’s light illuminates the fiery red rocks the park is named for.Īll campsites are first-come-first-served, so you need to plan to get there early to get a spot! I arrived around 10 a.m., thinking I was early enough. RV camping with utility hookups costs an additional $10/night. It is $25/night for non-NV vehicles and $20/night for Nevada vehicles. In addition to the entrance fee, there is a per night camping fee. With only a total of 72 campsites, these campgrounds fill up fast during the peak seasons. Nobody knows exactly what the symbols mean, but anthropologists have some guesses.There are two campgrounds at Valley of Fire State Park. There were other symbols of suns, medicine, plants, spirits, and some indicating whether there was water nearby. There were people, people dancing, people with horns, and handprints. There were deer, lizards, sheep, and snakes. There is an even greater variety of symbols than at Atlatl Rock. Be sure to look at the blackened sandstone walls along the hike, because they are completely covered with petroglyphs. The trail goes along a wash that was very muddy when we hiked it. Mouse’s Tank Trail was our favorite place to hike in the park. Aside from it being so hot, it eventually turned out to be a good run. We finished the run by approaching the loop and accessing the slot canyon from the other direction and running on the road a bit as well. We probably would have gone through the water if we weren’t trying to do the hike as a run. The slot canyon would have been really neat as well because it was so narrow. The colorful White Domes were very beautiful though, and the shapes they formed were incredible. The trail began in deep sand, the next part was a scramble that was pretty much impossible to run, and the slot canyon along the trail was completely filled with foot deep water. We wanted to do a trail run in the park, and we decided to try and run White Domes Trail. Seeing puddles in the desert is a bizarre and unique experience. At the same time, it felt like everything in the park had been cleaned and the plants were brighter and greener. There was a great deal of debris and gravel over some of the roads in the park though, and the rain affected some of the trails as well. But once the rain and hail hit the metal roof, it was so loud and forceful that even Ian couldn’t sleep through it.įortunately we were in very high area without any risk of flash flooding. Somehow Ian managed to sleep through all that. I woke up to thunder rumbles, and I watched dry purple lighting crack across the sky for about an hour before the rain hit us. The night before we arrived in the park, we experienced a massive desert storm.
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