Kelly Point Pictures

[xpdishn]

Great report and adventure. Thanks for sharing.

Are there other notable campgrounds along the way, or did you just camp at the point?

Scott, there are no established campgrounds except Toroweep. All others are "find a nice spot and camp". It goes without saying that one uses already existing fire rings though. For a long winded answer, here goes.

Twin Points: There is a great camp site at Oak Grove, actually if I recall it is a listed campground. Just fire rings, dry camping. Then on the way out to Twin Points, one wanders thru pines and scrub oaks - pick your spot?

Kelly Point: Between the lava road sections, nice trees and places to camp, again just pull off.

Then between Kelly Point and Whitmore, you head into the Poverty mountain area, again with tree coverage and camp spots. If I remember right, we were passing thru and thought, "what a great camp area", thinking there was more ahead. Not true - when you get to that point, if it's later in the day, stay there. But once you leave the trees, you're in the open to the Bar 10 and Whitmore. Not much protection if the wind is blowing.

Going north from the Bar 10 and over to Toroweep, you get into the Trumbell mountain area, lots of big pines and beautiful. Great camping areas.

Toroweep to SB and Kanab points, small trees and I can't remember any notable camp areas. Not that there isn't any.

Hopes this help others reading this. Do the complete western A. S., it's incredible.

 

[chicken corners]

What this guy said.^^^^^^^^^^:bowdown:

 

[FireGuy]

Kelly point is great......but you have to earn the trip. The last 20 miles are tough. You will scratch your rig. Depending on the rain and winds, you may have some VERY deep mud and trees blown across the trail. You will need 4LO. I would advise against doing the trip alone in one vehicle. Also, June and July can have some down right horrendous bugs at the point. I got absolutely destroyed last June from bug bites. Worst in my life. They were these tiny little knats that had a horrible bite. I spend a lot of time in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and Colorado and even the worst mosquito infested fishing hole never left me as jacked up as the bugs on Kelly point did (and of course I made the trip one week prior to my wedding, I looked like a teenager with acne for our pics, sorry honey!:sombrero

I want to go back but probably in September.

 

[chicken corners]

I cant wait to go back. Want to go to Twin Point this time. To HOT now. I went by myself:Wow1:, not the best thing to do. I had my Spot locator, still better to NOT go alone. I was lucky, road was in good shape? Never used 4 wheel drive. Took me about 2.5 hours to get from Kelly Point back to Dellenbaugh administrative site.

 

[Frank]

I did the both trips in one day.:Wow1: Whitmore was one day, and then Kelly Point was the next week.

I really really really envy you. Looks like it was a blast.