The road to get there is terrible but to camp at Toroweap is divine.
It’s such a long bumpy drive it’s barely worth just going for the day.
Besides, the best part of the place is sunrise and set.
During the day it can get pretty hot so take lots of water.
I wandered around camp for a while looking for interesting sights.
Early morning light seems to make the sandstone just glow.
The landscape of the Esplanade is pretty diverse considering it’s a desert environment.
Where have you gone camping lately?
What a gorgeous place. Toroweap looks like some where I’d like to stay for weeks in cooler times of the year. Sadly for me, due to life’s current circumstances, I have been camping no where that’s even remotely interesting. My life is in responsibilities to others mode at the moment. It’s very tiring. I need a stretch of solo time at Toroweap. It looks perfect!
Not easy to camp at Toroweap for weeks because of the lack of water. And the road is So bad I’d not take my RV out there.
Things will get better Sherry.
Looks like a beautiful spot, nothing better than wide open spaces and big skies for cheering the soul 🙂
As much as I love mountains and forests there is something Very special about the desert.
I can’t remember that last time we went camping……. probably Swaziland. This looks a perfect place if you want peace and isolation, my idea of camping 🙂 Diane
Oh its been a year camping at the geocaching campout. Too many other things going on to go this year. Camping in Oklahoma in October is wonderful. Warm days cool nights. Colorful foiliage.
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There is something special about the desert, for sure. It is solotude I think. Mountains and trees seem sometimes so busy being themselves—-well ….I know what I mean maybe others don’t. LOL MB
The desert offers a different kind of peace and solitude than the mountains and trees. Both good at their own time.
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Toroweep –a special place for the brave.. folks that make it have gone 110%. (not a place for a learning experience)
last trip I slid down Lava Falls trail (not recommended) blackbirds ate the last of my food. had a near death experience clambering back.
love the photos. makes me hear the music coming up from the kayakers camped down on river.
I never have nor ever will tackle Lava Route. Too many people have died on that. You were obviously lucky. Yet glad my post can evoke good memories for you.
Beautiful spot. I know you are enjoying it. I am afraid my tent camping days are done. Glad you still enjoy it.
I don’t tent camp very often but Toroweap is Not a place to bring an RV.
Just from the looks of it I can see it gets hot there. Very hot. My last camping was in Knysna in the pouring rain in June and the next one will be out end of year summer holiday.
Well I’d like to go camping but I have no one to go with:( I have a tent and it sits there calling my name. Maybe when you come down to visit we can go find an epic place to hike and camp. That would be a blast!
I didn’t know you Had to go camping With somebody. But I like that too. I don’t usually tent camp much anymore except near the rig. Just can’t shoulder the back pack anymore. But the truck with a slide-in camper can go a lot of places. I’d like to camping in the southern desert.
Well in Wisconsin it’s not big thing. But in Arizona, and down here …especially if I’m staying over night, I like to have someone around. It’s really too dangerous to tent alone with the criminal element out there.
Toroweap is someplace I’ve always wanted to go, but haven’t made it yet. Is the road bad the whole way, or just at the end?
Most of the road is just rough gravel, but the last 6-10 miles are nasty with slick rock. We’ll take my big truck.
You’re on!