Looking for Ideas!!! Spring and Summer camping

[Smittyauto]

I am looking for places in central and southern Utah to take the family, in my XJ and go camping. However I dont wanna just go camping, I want to have a 2,3,4 day trip with different camp spots each night, or 1 central camp spot that I can go and hit a hand full of different trails from. When it comes to the trail, I want a mixture of mild to wild. My XJ is built well and will handle the wild well. when it comes to camp sites, I wanna find places that I can have a few trees( or a lot of trees ), water( either river or lake ), maybe be able to catch some dinner, and some fun exploring for the family, I want to do this while avoiding the main roads. SO now its time to throw your ideas at me! I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with, and if you have pics that would be awesome. We are also open to going on a couple of trips with some good down to earth groups. That means no crazy people!!! And no drunks, we do drink, but we keep it to a few beers around the camp fire, not on the trail.....Hit me up.............Smitty

 

[JL Rockies]

Expedition Utah is an excellent resource for things like this.

 

[t5performance]

Have you ever ran hole in the rock from the Bluff side back to wards the lake. We have done it a few times and it is pretty cool. We make it a 3 day 2 night trip, we set up a base camp then go from there. I have some pretty good gps cords and way points of the trail if you are interested

 

[TJDukit]

Just spent this past weekend doing Hole in the Rock. It was an amazing trip and could have easily spent a week out there. Lots to explore on foot from different camp sites.

Edit: Keep an eye out on the trip reports section. There will be a really good report coming up in the next day or two.

 

[sixstringsteve]

I recommend attending the quarterly training day, where you will learn about planning trips, places to go, etc.

 

[Smittyauto]

I am seriously considering doing Hole in the Rock this year. I will probably wait till the end of summer when it starts to cool down. I would like to find a few people that have done it before that would like to go down and do it with us.

 

[DaveB]

We have a lot of fun down around the Boulder mountains: Burr trail with side hikes, Hole in the Rock west half, Tantalus flats road with side trips and hikes, lots of good fishing, Capital Reef, calf creek falls etc etc