2026 Snowbird Trip
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Cottonwood and Tuzigoot
Visiting Cottonwood’s Historic Old Town Dead Horse Ranch State Park is just outside the town of Cottonwood, Arizona. The Old Town section is lined with shops and restaurants and the Iron Horse Inn. We ate a delicious meal at Crema Craft Kitchen and did some shopping. There are several places for public parking, and the…
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Phoenix Outings
During our stay at Lake Pleasant we made a few trips into the Phoenix metro area. Traffic was what you would expect for an area with over 5 million people, but the major roads we traveled had 6 lanes in each direction and we tried to avoid rush hours so didn’t have much trouble getting…
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Lake Pleasant Regional Park
We spent a full 2 weeks (February 10 through February 24) at Lake Pleasant Regional Park in Maricopa County, Arizona. Lake Pleasant’s notable feature is a 10,000-acre reservoir while the entire park covers more than 27,000 acres. The park is known for its many wild burros that roam throughout the area. We spent our time…
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California!
We left Lake Pleasant behind in Arizona and started making our way towards Joshua Tree National Park. We decided to split the difference and spend the night at The Cove RV Park along side the Colorado river on the California side. We had read online that California is picky about bringing fruits and vegetables into…
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Joshua Tree National Park – Colorado Desert
Joshua National Park encompasses portions of two deserts — the Colorado Desert toward the southeast and the Mojave Desert toward the northwest. We camped within the park in the lower-lying Colorado Desert for our first couple of nights here. Colorado Desert Joshua Trees We came into the park from the south off of I-10. It…
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Joshua Tree National Park – Mojave Desert
On day three in Joshua Tree National Park, we headed over to the northwest side of the park. Now we’re officially in the Mojave Desert, which is this cool spot that bridges the Sonoran and the Great Basin. And guess what? The unique plants here definitely include the Joshua Tree! There are tons more of…
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Joshua Tree National Park – One Last Hike
We hit the road from Joshua Tree Lake RV Park this morning for one last hike in the national park. We rolled into the park from the northwest corner through a neighborhood in Yucca Valley, California. There’s no official park gate, but you can’t miss the campground and visitor center right at the entrance. Black…
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Palm Springs
Our home base for the next two nights is a KOA outside of Palm Springs. It was very windy as we emerged from the mountains toward the city. Their is large area dense with wind turbines (one can pay to tour the wind turbines) so we assumed that winds are pretty common in the area.…
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Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner
We found a nice Harvest Hosts’ business to spend the night in order to break up our drive from Palm Springs to our next major stop. Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner is an original roadside diner, built in 1954, that is just outside of Barstow. The wait staff were all decked out in traditional diner attire,…
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The Road to Death Valley
Before departing from Palm Springs, we checked the weather to ensure that temperatures at our next destination would remain within a tolerable range. After all, it is called Death Valley. We found that the temperatures were indeed acceptable, so that was where we would head next. Most of the campgrounds in the park are first-come-first-serve,…