Travel to Utah

[Geo Explore and Adventure]

Heading to Southern Utah this summer, how bad are the crowds at the National Parks and on the trails around Moab?

 

[MOAK]

Heading to Southern Utah this summer, how bad are the crowds at the National Parks and on the trails around Moab?

Hmm, it seems I answered this somewhere before- there just aren’t many crowds anywhere near Moab in the summer. It’s just way too hot. We go, sometimes twice a year. One year we tried early September, temps were in the triple digits in Devils Kitchen in the Needles District. After only two nights we headed up into the mountains.

 

[Psfracer]

Just came back from there (Moab / Canyonlands / Capital Reef / etc). May and October are the best months weather wise. I didn’t encounter too much traffic at all on the Shafer Switchbacks. Disn’t get to Chicken Corners. Camping was busy in Valley of the Gods, a lot of traffic there. However at Temple of the Sun in Capital Reef NP - I was alone with nobody else - it was 16 miles off the highway 24 but the off road trail is very easy.