Recap

I thought I would give a recap of the National Parks we have been in since arriving in California. Furnace Creek at Death Valley seemed very primitive when we first arrived…no water at the sites, no electricity and no showers. But, they did have large RV sites, dishwashing stations, modern bathrooms and showers were available at the Ranch Swimming Pool. We also had cell service. If need be we could hook up and go fill up with water and to dump our tanks.

There was always something to do in Death Valley…hiking, golfing, swimming at the pool, eating out [we didn’t even do that] and they also had a little bar where we could watch a sporting event if we so desired.

That place was just plain luxury compared to Jumbo Rocks Campground at Joshua Tree National Park. Here the sites are obviously made for tenters so we had to do some pretty good truck driving to fit into our site. There is absolutely no cell service, no showers anywhere, no water anywhere in the park, no electricity, just ugly, dirty pit toilets and no dump stations for units like ours.

Jumbo Rocks has so impressed us with the beauty of the place that I’m sure we would return in a heartbeat. Death Valley has a different kind of beauty with a large part of that coming from the fact that it is 200 feet below sea level and the landscape is so drastic.