Info on the internet said that this was Utah’s favorite park. It’s in the middle of nowhere, I mean a nowhere that you can only know if you’ve been out west. And you think, how can this be a favorite? There’s no gas, no food, no visible houses for 60 miles. It looks like nothing from the main road but as you drive up to the visitor center, you realize you’ve landed on Mars.
Fortunately, we got one of only 12 campsites in this amazing place. Essentially, the whole park belongs to the lucky campers. It’s hard to describe these goblin-like hoodoo rock formations everywhere. Small (4 ft) mushroom-shaped rocks, tall troll castle-shaped rocks, maze-like paths between them. You can climb on everything and run between them and, best of all, camp right next to them so your campfire flickers on them.
The lonely ranger (formerly a trucker from PA) told us about several movies that had been filmed in the park (Galaxy Quest with Sigourney Weaver, for instance) and gave us a “state park passport” which made us stop at every state park we saw to get a stamp (it kept the trip moving and took us to places we would never have seen).
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