Navigation from Arches National Park to Bryce Canyon National Park should be a piece of cake. We use Google Mapping. Of course we want to avoid the interstate highways. Mistake!! Sometimes it's better to embrace the devil you know than the devil you don't know. Here's what Google offers as the only alternative to Interstate 70.
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| Route 1007 outside of Green River, Utah |
We decide to take it. I have 4-wheel drive. We get 15 miles into the desert with the 4-wheel drive and the transfer cases are digging new ruts in the sand. But we are stopped by this:
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| Route 1007 is impassable |
The bridge over the gully is out but someone has been kind enough to make a new "ford" across. The only thing is, there has been a flash flood since the last person made it. The channel in the middle is ten feet below the gully floor. Paula says we have a shovel in the back and I can dig us across in about two hours. I decide to backtrack and take I-70. I think she's disappointed.
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