Solo trip from Denver - Winter
5180+ miles of drive in 3 weeks
One Way - Feb 4 2025 - Feb 15 2025
Feb 03 2025 - Rocky Mountain National Park
- Drive from Denver to get the “America The Beautiful” Annual Pass card
Feb 04 2025 - Juniper Campground (NM) - Bandelier National Monument
- Sleeping beauty (Stop)
- Shree Hanumaan Temple - Neeb Karori Baba Ashram - 4 hr 13 min (273 miles)
- Juniper Campground (NM) - 1 hr 28 min (71.4 miles)
Day 2 - Mather Campground (Grand Canyon Village)
- Juniper Campground (NM), Bandelier National Monument
- Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center - (good to visit, one additional hour)
Map Link - Mather Campground, 1 Mather Campground Rd, Grand Canyon Village, AZ 86023 - 9 hr 37 min (601 miles) Map Link
Day 3 Grand Canyon South Rim
- North Rim closed for winders.
- South Rim to North Rim is 4.5 hours Drive. North Rim to South Rim Hike attempt for 2 days Post summers.
- West Rim is closer to Vegas
Day 4
Visit West Rim Mather Campground to Boulder Beach Campground, 3 hr 47 min (248 miles) https://maps.app.goo.gl/eiHQ5iYaBDm3BYXz9 via West Rim : https://maps.app.goo.gl/Huk9PLYxZ6J2yDnB6
Day 5
Visit either Hoover Dam, Vegas, both Boulder Beach Campground - (791 miles 11 hr 22 mins from denver) Hoover Dam : 14 min (6.4 miles)
Boulder Beach Campground to Las Vegas, Nevada - 33 mins https://maps.app.goo.gl/EntdhLCJUuaZnUXY8
Boulder Beach Campground to Grand Canyon West - 94.6 miles 1hr 43 mins https://maps.app.goo.gl/EntdhLCJUuaZnUXY8
Day 6:
from Boulder Beach Campground to Acorn Campground : 8 hr 22 min (562 miles) : https://maps.app.goo.gl/3ypgrBw123dPFpxZ6 can go via death valley national park : 10 hr 16 min (567 miles) : https://maps.app.goo.gl/GKDt9EkDgDuFwMaJ7
in both routes can go to Sequoia, Sierra nevada and Yosemite parks
Day 7,8,9:
From Acorn Campground - near Sacramanto (17 hrs 47 mins From Denver) Lake Tahoe - 114 miles 2hr 29 mins - 1 day Yosemite park 84.6 miles - 2 hours - 1 day Fremont, CA 94.7 miles 1 hr 41 mins - Stay with Sangram (Reach on Friday or Saturday)
From Acorn Camp ground to Wawona
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gn8tBGVtMMBwX9d7A
Return
Buckhorn or Fremont to Boulder Beach Campground, 268 Lakeshore Rd, Boulder Ci
ty, NV 89005
Bolder beach to Westwater Campground (Ranger Station) [Hwy 128 Scenic Byway] 6 hr 41 mins
Westwater Campground (Ranger Station) to home - 4 hr 49 mins
Tentative to visit nort of SFO towards Crater Lake
From Acorn Campground to Buckhorn Campground - 2 hr 49 min (172 miles) From Fremont to Buckhorn Campground - North of Fremont - 2 hr 56 mins, 189 miles From Buckhorn to Crator Lake - 5 hr 5 min (278 miles) North Entrance Road and Rim Drive are CLOSED for the season. Alert 2, Severity closure, North Entrance Road and Rim Drive are CLOSED for the season. The North Entrance Road and East & West Rim Drives are now closed for the season a few The roads will not open again until mid to late June or July 2025. All other roads are open.
Numbers
Home to Mather Campground (in Grand canyon North entrance Village near yavapai lodge) - 840 miles from denver11 hr, 39 mins
Return
Feb 20, 2025 - Fremont to Boulder Beach campground via Death valley National Park
Feb 21, 2025 - Boulder Beach campground to Watchman Campground Zion National Park
Feb 22, 2025 - Bryce Canyon National Park
Feb 23, 2025 - Page, AZ Antelope Canyon
- Lower Antelope Canyon
- Upper Antelope Canyon
Feb 24, 2025 - Watchman Campground to Saddlehorn Campground via Canyonlands National park and Arches National Park
- Hiked to the Delicate Arch