Planning this roadtrip for next year, you guys think this is doable in 5-6 weeks?
Posted May 4, 2022, 10:48 AM UTC
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You could do that in 3 days.
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As a Texas this is slightly shorter than my commute to work
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As a Texas
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This is hilarious
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Ditto. It’s takes me an hour to get out of downtown Austin. Then I still got time on the commute to get home
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Fr audiobooks have saved my sanity lol.
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Was thinking the same thing. Even 5-6 days it would be not too bad either.
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What would the point be tho
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Exactly, rushing through these areas is a waste.
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Depends on if he loses all his money in Los wages
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You really need to extend this and hit the 4-Corners. Durango, Silverton, Bluff Utah, Telluride, Mesa Verde, Pagosa Hot springs.....
You're already 90% of the way there.
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I second this. Worth the detour/extra time for sure.
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I 2nd Durango!
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Telluride has the only free gondola in North America.
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Fascinating, thank you!
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Durango & Silverton railroad, Cumbres & Toltec railroads if you're into trains.
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Yes that mountain-top train ride is one of the best memories of my life.
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Recommendations for those areas? I just booked road trip around CO to eat national park and I’ll be driving from mesa verde through Durango and up to past silverton and telluride up to montrose
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Where at?
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Yes, Mesa Verde National Park for sure to see Cliff Palace.
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In 5 or 6 weeks? Definitely. How much you get to see and do all depends on how you budget your time, how often you stop and how long you stay.
For perspective, Las Vegas and LA are only a few hours apart by car, if you're not stopping and you put the hammer down. The mileage is not your limiting factor here.
With a time budget of 5 to 6 weeks you'll have the chance to stop at multiple cool places for 2 to 4 day stretches.
You should upload another map with pins dropped of all the places you want to stop, I bet you get good feedback on how many days to expect to spend at each spot.
I assume you are planning to go to Moab/Arches/Canyonlands?
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of course. you could hit all 48 lower states in 6 weeks.
the question you need to answer: how many obscure but fun things do you want to go off exploring. You can tool around on highways, and eat at McDonalds, and do that route in less than one week.
but if you mostly travel on backroads, swear to NOT eat at chain restaurants, look up places to visit on sites like Atlas Obscura....yeah, 6 weeks would give you an in-depth view of that entire region
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Increase the size of your route, as you could do this in a week or less
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Good bot
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Or they can just spend more time enjoying each place they go.
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I disagree, you could easily spend a week at each of the national park this route stops at
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What time of the year are you going? Arizona in the summer is awful.
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Umm OP has death valley on that trip. I go to AZ alot and ive never seen it 122F outside and no lake to jump in. I did DV in August. Never again.
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Well the Phoenix area does avg high 100s during the summer, but places like Sedona avg high 90s or Flagstaff which gets into the 80s are worth checking out.
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Yes
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Not sure but you will LOVE Zion
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Home to two drastically different but amazing hikes (the Narrows and Angels Landing)
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And sedona
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Are you walking?
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Is this an app, it did you draw this? Lol
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The southern Utah section seems weird. Are you just taking 89 down into Arizona from Zion? Or are you taking 89/12/24/95 to monument valley?
Anyhow, I recommend going further northeast into Utah - Bryce, Arches, Moab, then taking it further into Colorado - Telluride, Durango.
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You could for sure do that. Me and my wife hit 12 national parks and a lot of the west coast in 5 weeks.
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Jesus why not just six parks but actually spend some quality time at each
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Because everyone is into different things. Some people like to suck the marrow out of each destination, others care about the journey equally.
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Depends on what you want to accomplish along the way. My family did 80% of that exact route in 14 days and it was super fun and very memorable. Now, if we’d spread it over 5 weeks we’d have hiked more trails in Arizona and Utah. Had more beach days along the pacific coast. Seen more things off the beaten path. If you’ve got the time - do it. Beautiful part of the country. My recommendation tho regarding 5 weeks would be to extend the route to see more (AZ, CO, Northern UT, Mid/ Northern CA). We like to cover more ground to see more of America but others prefer to linger and enjoy. Again, depends on what you want to accomplish. Just be sure to post pics of your travels.
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Glad someone mentioned this. If OP is traveling during fire season, they should plan on being flexible with routes.
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Too much time? You could easily spend a week at every single national park this route passes. And then a week in each of the cities. There's enough things on this route to be an entire season of traveling
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Very doable.
I’ve done that whole drive in two days.
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I hope you included the meteor crater in this!
You could do this easily in 3 weeks
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You can go across the country in a week.
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100%.
I definitely don't agree with people saying you could do this in a week or less though.. I mean you could. But places like the Grand Canyon, Vegas, Yosemite, etc. you could spend 2-3 days at each, easily.
But I went on a 6 week road trip a couple years back and did all this plus Northern California, the rest of Utah, and part of Colorado, so.. definitely doable.
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Yeah I agree. Given unlimited vacation time, I'd much rather do this at a 5-6 week pace than a 1 week pace.
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Yeah, if it were me, I’d probably spend ~3 weeks doing the part OP shared, and another 3 weeks seeing the rest of California and Utah.
Hell, I’ve done that route twice already and am debating doing it again this year for a third time. It’s a great road trip route.
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It’s about 7-8 hours from socal to sac. There to Zion I have no idea. Looks like maybe 9 hour trip. Then another 9-10 hour trip back. That’s what I guess by driving California a lot.
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This trip is the opposite of the kind of pace most trips on this sub follow, where people try to cram way too much distance into too short of a vacation. This is a very leisurely pace for 5-6 weeks. This is extremely doable, but you need to have a lot of side trips planned to stretch this over a month and a half. Do lots of research on hikes, camping areas, things to do in the cities you'll be passing through. As long as you have enough stuff to do planned, this is my favorite kind of trip, since you get to go deep on areas that most people only experience superficially. But i rarely have the time off to go at this kind of pace.
I agree with this human.
I’d spend a good amount of time in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Since you’ve got plenty of time. Driving from Phoenix to Vegas and then to California doesn’t take that long, and is not super exciting. But lots of cool hikes in southern Utah and in Arizona! And of course on the coast.
Came here to say how shitty this trip was for me in 5 days..