Camping by the River

[Ben Egbert]

This is a campground by the Colorado River that can be reached from a spur road along the White Rim Road.

I did not camp here, but it might be a good place some day.

 

[AlanLichty]

I could easily see parking there for the night. Nice setting.

 

[Ben Egbert]

There was a great bluff just to the right of the truck that would have made a great sunrise reflection image.

 

[ckcarr]

As long as you have prior reservations.

To even travel on the White Rim you now need to reserve. There are only 25 vehicles a day allowed out there for day use. Here's the reservation page:
https://canypermits.nps.gov/

Note that it tells you it will email you the permit. I've found that problematic at best. Usually nothing happens. So I just take an iPhone shot of my screen at the point of permit issuance, so I capture the permit number.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Right, and you need to get the permits exactly 4 months ahead. This means being on the website ready to start punching in the data at 11:59 4 months before your date. It took two of us 3 nights to get our permits as they fill in about 2 minutes and there is a lot of info required.

Craig, not sure if 4 months is the right number, but the rest is true. I did get my email pretty fast however. Toroweap was very easy, hardly anyone goes there.

 

[Jeffrey]

Looks like a spot along the Potash Road. Did you start at Shafer and do the 100 miles?

 

[Ben Egbert]

We did take Shafer and because we did not have permits that trip, we drove the entire White Rim in one day including this 5 mile side trip down to the river. This is I believe at the end of the Gooseberry trail, But I could be mistaken. It was a pretty rough drive.

We measured it and it's really only 80 miles of hard driving. The last 20 miles back to pavement is a well graded road that comes out at Horse Thief.

 

[JimFox]

That would be a great place to camp Ben!