For weary traveler coming from the west coast or even just a state or two away this is a AWESOME place to camp for a night or two and explore the area. I present to you... Rabbit Valley
It is reached via I 70, we had just finished a drive across UTAH in a matter of hours, about 7 with stops. We had left the day before from San Diego around 1400 for our longest trip of the year to Colorado, got to bed in St. George around 2200 MST and left in the morning for a quick peak into Zion NP before continuing on our way to Colorado. The speed limit was a blistering 80 MPH, my sister (we sent a picture of a sign to my sister, the Police Officer) responded,"So you can drive 90!?". It was a long day but we were determined to get to Colorado.
Rabbit Valley is an OHV area that borders Utah and Colorado, I had my doubts about it due to it being OHV.
When we arrived there wasn't a sole to be seen, specifically no toy haulers, no dust clouds. Navigation around the area was fairly simple, all we had was a paper map of the area from the trail head, which provided little to no assistance except where camp areas were.
The gravel road ahead appeared to be groomed for RVs and other weekend warriors, but that didn't last long. We soon found smaller more rocky "fun" trails. After hundreds of miles on the free way, my transfer case was itching to get into 4wd, so we had a little bit of fun on side trails, knowing the summer sun would be up for quite a bit longer.
After driving around for while we decided to try and get to the mighty Colorado river, perhaps for a swim? The map provided no elevation information so we set out toward the "river" marked on the map. When we arrived at the first campsite, we knew THIS was the one.
We set up camp, and had some adult beverages. After the seemingly long trip from San Diego, we were in "The Centennial State".
Due to the lack of people, by lack of I mean 0, we decided to get wild (which is not like us) and take a shower without a shower tent. It was pretty funny at first but the the views were stunning and I would probably never have the opportunity to take a shower with this view again.
Every couple of hours a train would come by, it wasn't loud though due to it being down in the canyon and there was no reason for it to sound its whistle. It was quite a site to see, I like to try and imagine the grueling work of laying tracks being slightly better in areas like this.
The next morning we packed up camp, ate breakfast and headed back out to the road, which was only a mile or two away.
So, for the weary traveler, or the destination camper, Rabbit Valley is beautiful and right off the I 70.
