Keeping the Utah theme going, we spent a few days at Snow Canyon State Park in Ivins, UT, near St. George.  As you might expect from its location in southwest Utah, the views are fabulous – petrified dunes, lava flows, and sandstone peaks and walls.  Aside from being in the general Zion area, it is where the Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert meet up.  Think desert.  Coincidentally, the park was located close to Black Desert Resort, home of the Bank of Utah Golf Championship.

As close as the park is to St. George, at the campground there is virtually no cell phone coverage.  “Canyon” should have been our first clue.

There are two basic choices for camping here at Snow Canyon – in a water/electric section that is so tight to your neighbors you could not possibly open an awning.  But you could easily pass the Grey Poupon!  Or stay in (mostly) no-service sites which are more scenic and spacious.  Generators are allowed between noon and 4 pm, water is available at a few spigots, there is a fire ring at each site, and there is a campground dump station.  From any site, the views are extraordinary.

What we have learned is that we are self-reliant with a combination of solar (standard 390-watt config for an Airstream 30 Classic) and lithium batteries (four 100 amp-hour Battle Born lithium batteries) to meet our trailer needs, particularly with beautiful clear Utah skies.

We needed our generator to help recharge our e-bikes and other non-trailer related gear.  E-bike recharging can be fairly demanding from a recharging standpoint, so we would run our generator for a couple of hours.  We do travel with an Ecoflow (Delta 1300 1800w) portable power source, which is a great add for powering our Starlink, watches, phones, all that stuff without utilizing our inverter.  More importantly, it can power my wife’s hair dryer.  But then the Ecoflow needs to be recharged, hence the generator.  But it all works.

We biked one day on a 17-mile trip that took us around a good part of the canyon.  Because of the elevation gain (1,500 feet), unless you are conditioned for hill biking, you will welcome an ebike.  But it is a gorgeous ride!

 

While we didn’t explore too much here, the views are fabulous!