Utah Freshwater Fishing Destinations

Does the idea of dropping a line in a clear, cool lake have you reaching for your fishing tackle? RV campers from all over are discovering the joys of freshwater fishing in Utah. Huge lake trout, abundant striped bass and tiger muskie that will give you the fight of your life are all waiting for you in Utah. Here are some places RV campers report make a great fishing vacation destination.

Lake Powell
Deep blue waters and amazing red rock canyons are only two of the reasons motorhome campers who love to fish love Utah's Lake Powell. Located in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which stretches from northern Arizona into Utah, Lake Powell has thousands of miles of shoreline waiting to be explored. Every campground on this enormous lake offers scenery that will have your camera clicking. Fishing for striper is especially popular at Lake Powell, and this handy Fishing Lake Powell guide will point you to the coves with the most action.

Flaming Gorge Reservoir
Located near the Utah/Wyoming border, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area has spectacular scenery, woodland RV campgrounds and thousands of trophy-size rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout! While you're in the area, fish the Green River in the scenic canyon below Flaming Gorge Dam for record-breaking brown trout. This popular RV camping destination does require campground reservations, so use this Camping at Flaming Gorge Reservoir link to make yours.

Jordanelle State Park
West of Salt Lake City in the front range of the Wasatch Mountains, you'll find Jordanelle State Park, home to abundant fishing opportunities. It's famous for its smallmouth bass population, and also offers plenty of cutthroat, brown trout and perch fishing. Nearby, Rivers Edge at Deer Park Resort features picturesque, tree-shaded RV campsites and fly fishing adventures on the Provo River.

Ready to find your own trophy trout in Utah? Our Salt Lake City RV Rentals location is ready to provide you with a well-equipped RV for your Utah camping and fishing trip. The fantastic scenery, comfortable RV campgrounds and memorable fishing experiences make Utah one of the best places you'll ever visit. Let us know what your Utah fishing adventure reels in!

Some Nice Resources for People Vacationing in the Salt Lake Area

This was provided to us by the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Following are some excellent resources for anyone who will be vacationing in the Salt Lake City area...

Visit Salt Lake Connect Pass

The Visit Salt Lake Connect Pass allows you to be your own personal tour guide of everything Salt Lake has to offer - just take your pass and go to more than 12 of Salt Lake's best attractions.

Available in 1, 2 or 3-day increments, your Visit Salt Lake Connect Pass is activated the first time you use it and will remain active for the number of consecutive days purchased, however, the pass is limited to one (1) visitation at each participating attraction.

Golf Salt Lake Super Pass

With the Golf Salt Lake Super Pass you can gain access to the best tee times at any one of Salt Lake's 10 top golf courses. With the pass you get:

• 18 holes of play
• Golf cart rental
• Access to tee times 60 days in advance of play
• A small bucket of range balls
• A 10-20% discount on Golf club rentals at any of the participating courses

All this helps to ensure that you have plenty of opportunities to turn those pesky Bogeys into brag-worthy Birdies.

Ski Salt Lake Super Pass

The Ski Salt Lake Super Pass give you the freedom to ski or ride where you want. You can redeem the Super Pass for:

• Adult full-day pass at Alta Ski Area (snowboarding not permitted)
• Adult Super Day lift ticket at Brighton Resort (9 am to 9 pm, when night skiing is available)
• Adult all-day Tram & Chair pass at Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort
• Adult all-day lift pass at Solitude Mountain Resort Plus free UTA Transportation (Round-trip travel on UTA ski buses and TRAX light-rail. Ski buses provide service to/from Alta, Brighton, Snowbird, and Solitude. Does not include service from Salt Lake City Airport. Ski bus service begins in December and runs to April.).
  

All this helps to ensure that you have plenty of opportunities to ski or ride The Greatest Snow on Earth™

An RV Vacation Through Native American History

For an RV camping vacation that's a history lesson, as well, consider exploring Native American historical sites. The suggestions below represent just a few of the hundreds of places you can learn about the role of Native Americans in our nation's history.

Native American History RV Vacation – Four Corners Itinerary
Where the borders of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet, you'll find a treasure trove of Native American history. In the Four Corners area you can visit Mesa Verde, Hovenweep National Monument, Canyon de Chelly National Monument and Monument Valley.

Mesa Verde, in southwestern Colorado, is the site of ancient cliff dwellings and spectacular scenery. Winding roads lead to the canyon rim throughout this National Park. You will find numerous lookout points offering amazing glimpses of the cliff dwellings where ancient Puebloans lived for more than seven hundred years! While you're exploring the wonders of Mesa Verde, park your RV at A&A RV Campground located at the entrance to the National Park, or try the Mesa Verde RV Resort only a half mile away..

North and west of Mesa Verde, along the Utah/Colorado border, you'll find Hovenweep National Monument. The ruins of six prehistoric Pueblo dwellings dot the canyons of Hovenweep, with towers rising far above canyon walls.

Continue your Native American History RV vacation with a stop in Monument Valley in northeastern Arizona. You'll probably remember the sandstone buttes and towers from hundreds of Westerns filmed there. Native American guides who live within the valley will lead you off the main trails to sites that mark the legacy of their ancestors.

Your final leg of a Four Corners RV camping trip should definitely include Canyon de Chelly near the Arizona/New Mexico border. The Canyon, completely located on Navajo tribal land, offers an entire vacation's worth of historical treasures. The windswept canyons and buttes of Canyon de Chelly are home to more than two thousand archaeological sites. Plan to camp at Spider Rock RV Campground in Chinle, Arizona for the ultimate Canyon de Chelly experience.

For RV Rentals to the Four Corners area El Monte RV has you covered with the following locations: Albuquerque RV Rentals, Denver RV Rentals, Phoenix RV Rentals, Salt Lake City RV Rentals, and Tucson RV Rentals,

Native American History RV Vacation – Northern Itinerary
When you're ready for another round of Native American history, plan some RV camping in the Badlands and Black Hills of the north central U.S. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana lets visitors relive the battle that claimed the lives of most of the 7th Cavalry Division under Lt. Col George Armstrong Custer in 1876. Here in the place Sitting Bull and several thousand Lakota and Cheyenne warriors were victorious, you'll find breathtaking scenery and plenty of Native American artifacts to explore.

The Black Hills of South Dakota are home to the Crazy Horse Memorial, where sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began creating his enormous tribute to the Lakota chief in 1948. Come watch as progress on the colossal sculpture continues, and stay to visit the Native American Cultural Center and Indian Museum of North America.

Finish your RV camping trip to find Native American history with a stop at the Wounded Knee Museum in Wall, South Dakota. About fifty miles from the actual site of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, the Museum tells the story of the tragic deaths of almost 300 Lakota Sioux at Pine Ridge.

As you travel the Badlands and Black Hills, there are plenty of well-equipped RV campgrounds to serve you. Big Pine RV Campground near Custer, South Dakota is a great place to make camp as you increase your knowledge of Native American history.

Why not learn more on your next vacation about the major contribution Native Americans have made to our history? Turn your motorhome into a rolling classroom and get ready to be inspired!

ATV / UTV Fun in Utah

If you are an ATV / UTV fan, you may want to check out the Paiute Trail UTV Jamboree. The event will be held in Marysvale, Utah on Thursday, Friday and Saturday - August 13, 14, 15, 2009. It will be held in conjunction with the Miner's Day Celebration.

Those who want to RV to the event should check out El Monte RV's Salt Lake City RV Rentals location. An RV campground to check out in Marysvale would be the South-Forty RV Park.

Family RV Vacation of a Lifetime

RV Vacation Through Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico

The following was submitted by an RV Vacation Fan.

It was the summer of Y2k. My family (husband, wife & 2 sons) had planned a six-week trip traveling through five western states in an RV. We started with an RV Rental in Salt Lake City where we flew in two days before settling into our new "home."

Our RV was a Class A, 36 feet long and slept six to eight. It had all the makings of home except the washer and dryer. There were two TV's, stereo, refrigerator, stove and microwave. What more could we ask for? The grocery trips were fun - we could just leave the store and be home.

We drove up to Jackson Hole and to Grand Teton National Park. It was our dream family vacation. Teaching the boys, albeit young, only six and nine, about our country's history in real life!

After spending one night, we continued our drive north to Yellowstone National Park. It was amazing. We had booked the campground for a week, rented a car to tour the park and settled in to see the geysers and the wild life. Old Faithful was as true as they say. We hiked the trails and saw deer, moose and bison close enough to see the color variations in their fur.

The boys, with my husband, fished for dinner in the lake at the park. I never had trout that tasted so good. After making the kids try the fish, they chose to eat the hamburgers we brought as a backup plan.

From Yellowstone, we drove across Wyoming to Cheyenne, where we stopped to see a real rodeo, with bronco roping and everything. What a hoot. Next stop was Four Corners, in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The boys loved the idea of being in four places (states) at the same time.

We arrived in Denver, happy to go to a Colorado Rockies baseball game at the infamous Mile High Stadium, drove up to the top of Rocky Mountain National Park and even tried Buffalo burgers.

In Moab, we went on a half-day rafting expedition in a class 4 river. The rapids were a blast. So were the water gun fights we had with the people in the three other rafts!

Driving west, we fell in love with Bryce Canyon. It was so beautiful to gaze down at the gigantic monoliths from the top of the trail. Of course, we spent time at Zion National Park as well, since it was practically across the street. On to the Grand Canyon, our final park before heading back to Salt Lake City to return our home on wheels. We went to both the north and south rims. Very different views and although each was astounding, I highly recommend visiting the north rim.

This was the trip of a lifetime. A memory making adventure my family still talks about and will always remember. We could not have done it without the RV.

El Monte RV has RV rental locations in many places that can be used for a similar vacation (depending on the starting point):

• Salt Lake City RV Rentals
• Denver Colorado RV Rentals
• Arizona RV Rentals
• New Mexico RV Rentals
  

Please feel free to share your RV vacation experiences with us. Send them to monty@elmonterv.com.

RV Camping, Golf & Breathtaking Beauty

As you may imagine, we have a lot of communications with various RV campgrounds. One who we have been speaking to recently, Cherokee Springs Golf and RV Resort, was kind enough to share some of the great things that can be done from their RV campground.

Cherokee Springs Golf and RV Resort is off Scenic Highway 89 between Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon in southern Utah's "color country". Cherokee Springs is literally a wonderful place to come up to - at an elevation 7200 feet the golf course at Cherokee Springs is one of the highest west of the Rockies.

Cherokee Springs Golf and RV Resort is located in what is known as Utah's "color country", a name derived from the similar scenic features and vivid and varied scenery that can only be described as breathtaking. Some of the wonderful natural resources that can be visited from the park include:

• Bryce Canyon National Park & RV Camping Ideas – Bryce Canyon, Utah
  
• Grand Staircase National Monument
  
• Capitol Reef National Park
  
• Dixie National Forest
  
• Kodachrome Basin State Park
  
• Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
  
• Anasazi Indian Village State Park
  
• Lake Powell in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
  

Other activities nearby include scenic drives, horseback riding, ATVing and mountain biking. You can actually bike or ride trails that lead from the resort all the way to Bryce Canyon via the back country. The fishing at Panguitch Lake or in the Sevier River is great and there are lots of hiking trails around.

Of course you should not forget that at the Cherokee Springs Golf and RV Resort you can enjoy the 9 hole, par 36 golf course offering a challenging layout and scenic views. You may also bring your horse as they have a 9 stall barn, riding arena and pasture area.

So if your travels take you to southern Utah's color country, check in on our friends at the Cherokee Springs Golf and RV Resort. You can get more information on their website www.cherokeespringsresort.com or you can call them at 435-619-0391.

And remember, if your RV travels take you to the State of Utah, El Monte RV can accomodate you from our Salt Lake City RV Rental location.

Other campgrounds, please share with us the cool things that can be done in and around your campground. Contact Val at vluongo@elmonterv.com to share your stories.