what are some of the things i should do? were are the camp grounds?
how hot will it be in June/July?
are there Hotels in town?
any good web pages showing some of the attractions near Moab?

thanks for any help.

steelman

Moab is great! I go there at least once a year. For a first time I would recomend the you do the Rim Trail,(take a right a mcyd's and go about 21/2 miles it will be on the left with signs). Another good one is hells revenge. you enter by dump bump. Nice long trail with some nice obsatcles on the side. Poisnous spider to the golden crack to golden spike is a killer loop. I like to run it the oppistite way I just listed. Furthest one out of town that I really lke to run. All of the above or lots of fun but the rim is a must for a first timer in my opinion. Be careful looks can be deciving.have fun.
4wheelchef

for Moab -> get the Moab trails book by Wells and June/July is going to be pretty hot :D
A little of everything for everybody :)

Well I went in May of 2004 and stayed at the canyonlands campgrounds. It's practically in the center of everything and has clean facilities at a reasonable price. They have tent sites as well as electric sites for campers, and a gas station upfront that's convenient. Hope this helps.

Best weather would be late may or very early June, personally I don't think I go out there in July because of the heat. Every trail I ran was great, behind the rocks was a good trail with decent obstacles and bypasses for the less modified, also steelbender was decent (although not as fun as behind the rocks).

great. thanks for the replys. keep them coming.

steelman

I'm going for the third time May 8-18 from Calgary, Alberta.

Hooking up with some other folks from the US and Canada. If you want to bump your dates, you're welcome to join us.

what are some of the things i should do? were are the camp grounds?
how hot will it be in June/July?
are there Hotels in town?
any good web pages showing some of the attractions near Moab?

thanks for any help.

steelmanWe are going to make our annual pilgrimage to Meca July 1 thru July 9. Staying at Canyonlands. It will be hot (" but it's a dry heat") PM me if you wiil there during those times.

Click here for some pictures of Moab trails. (too many to post)

http://www.explorerforum.com/moab02_day1/

http://www.explorerforum.com/moab02_day2/

http://www.explorerforum.com/moab02_day3/

http://www.explorerforum.com/moab_03/

http://www.explorerforum.com/moab-04-wedding/

http://www.explorerforum.com/moab-04-behindrocks/

http://www.explorerforum.com/moab-04-misc/

You'll even find some of Msupertech and others in some of those albums.

Oh - and I did the wedding on TOWT...

My personal webshots has a folder from Moab - mostly Steelbender, the Arches National Park, and Top of the World.

http://community.webshots.com/user/glfredrick

And some other web sites that were worth looking at.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=13&x=391&y=2669&z=12&w=2

http://www.moab-utah.com/

http://www.moab-utah.com/maps/reliefmap.html

http://www.fuelcostcalculator.com/TripGasPrice.aspx

I'd recommend not getting sucked into the Canyonlands by Night dinner cruise. That is, unless a man shining a flashlight on the rocks for $40 a pop sounds good to you...

LOL! Glfredrick that was a horrible light show wasn't it! :laughing:

Ya don't do the light show. :shaking:

Well, I actually missed the cruise...

The rest of my party took a wrong turn and ended up out at the "other bridge" at the end of the River Road (where we go to TOTW trail!) and they didn't figure out where they were until it was too late - so I got a pass and a refund.

After hearing what most of the rest of the club said, I was glad. You can see the rocks much better in the daylight and for freeeeeeee... :D