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The police now use scanners to check vehicle tags automatically. They look for stolen vehicles but also vehicles with swamped/stolen tags. I'd say you stood a good chance of getting caught.

I doubt that they would be interested in the block but I no feline expert, use the plastic boxes if you are worried but that greatly limits where you can put the blocks. Ask a vet about your cuisine question

But poison is the only effective method that we found, Traps and repellent do not work well enough to clear an RV. We have been Rodent Free from a week or two after using the blocks.

$160 outside YNP/Tetons

The only thing that works is poison blocks and TOM's seem ro be the best. We went thru this, tho w/o the major damage and traps of various types sort of work but do not get rid of the critters. You do not need the plastic boxes just scatter the blocks wherever the rats go. Our dogs ignore the blocks.

You have to deal with t5he dead rat stink the lasts a week or two

We saw the shuttle stops but no shuttles, and parking was $20-40 a day. How does the shuttle get past the long line into the entry?

Came in from Springdale 2 days ago arrived mid morning, took and hour to get in. NO parking waited an hour in lot never got a spot, 15 min spots take up a lot of space.

Clement weather next two weeks, in the 70s. May want to go ASAP if in the area,. Was 105t week

Open 6/2 we were there

   Broken water line no water, no overnight except cg, portata potties for restrooms, no food service. Kaibob Trail closed no Rim To Rim until July

All roads cleared. Most roads cleared in outside National Forest

FS cg in Jacob Lake has sites 1-11 as FF for two days only. Better get there early to grab one, We were there at 9 AM and they were gone by 9:15

I confess NR a faint echo of the SR

WE are at Bryce and managed to grab a 3 day spoyt at Sunset CG inside the park.

   A couple of comments about that. The sites are FF, They are mainly short in the RV loop with lots of trees that make getting into them very hard. Anything over 25 total length with have trouble. Maybe a couple will take a 30 FT. Tow has to fit in the suit too. Gen hours 8-10 AM and 6 to 8 PM

Surveyed two boondock ares outside the park

   Cabin Hollow has VERY rough road once you get past the first couple of sites. There are openings mainly of vans and Class C because of the road.

The next road down, not sure of name, towards BCNP with the Prairie Dogs site has a good road and quite a few empty spots today. Over 10 open we did not go all the way back

There is another road that we checked out last lime, past the second one about with many sites.

These roads are headed north? Away from the Bryce entrance any way. My sense of direction gets screwed up around here,

There is another paved road on the other side that goes way back and has good but limited designated spots only.

You just need receipts for rent or utilities to establish a residence. I don't know what an Escapee Letter is. Some county registrars are more difficult than others from what I hear, Sumpter Cty is especially leient

If someone is watching the video, just what are they going to see? An autonomous road scrolling by with no audio. So what?? Seems to have zero value to most people.

2 hours ago, RV_ said:

Even better when the words do not go together like:

snaillightningd0nut!

I'm no black hat but I believer that the crackers  work by brute force methods and just cycle thru every possible combination of characters. They are not looking for words. That's why long pw are more secure the number of characters exceed their capability taking too long to try every combination..

The size of video files makes it very unlikely that someone is watching all dashcams. The NSA is reported to be listening in on every phone call by having their computers listen for keywords. To do that they have warehouse sized buildings around the country that are filled with supercomputer mainframes. This is a huge undertaking and vastly expensive so that only a government could fund it.

That is for audio files which are tiny compared with video files. A MB or smaller while video is hundreds of MB.

Now these dashcams will have passwords, change that to a long, at least 16 character pw with numbers and upper chars like !.  It does not need to be a incomprehensible string readable is good like: My l0ng password!!

That is just about impossible to crack

Do the same for all your important pw.

Offhand it seems unlikely they are not wired into a network after all but who knows. But with WIFI connection it could happen. Take a heck of a lot of bandwidth and storage

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he North Rim of the Grand Canyon will be reopening as scheduled on Friday, June 2, but several areas within the park will remain closed and limited services will be offered.

 

You won't have a tunnel problem at Zion with a Class C

I agree I'd stay inside the park, BUT that means reserving as soon as the reservation window opens. Winter the year before going. And where the parks have handed over the campground to private contractors expect pricey fees, up to $100/night.

The big question is: How much time do you have? two or three weeks, then limit yourself to a couple of parks. I'd plan a week at each park to get a real look at these extraordinary lands. Mayne not that long at Arches or Capitol Reef.

The loop is Grand Canyon South Rim

  Crowded but so big that is not a problem

Maybe North Rim

  Not crowded opens late in June

Zion

  Hotter than Hades, absolute mob scene. Very hard to park and has a shuttle systems

Arches

  Makes Zion look like an icebox. Extremely crowded and they close the gates once max visitor occurs. Get there early in the day 8AM or earlier ro beat the heat and crowds

Bryce Canyom

  Cooler (8000 feet), crowded but not as bad

Capitol Reef

   Crowds and hot but not as bad as the rest

Side Trip: Mesa Verde

  Crowded need online reservations for tours make a week or more in advance

Yellowstone/Tetons are not part of the 'loop' which isn't actually any sort of loop.

Roads, not much choice the roadnet is limited so just follow the obvious. Read up on Zion tunnel tho.

AND NUMBER ONE RULE: Carry lots of water, a liter or more each, wear a good hat.

All of these parks have boondocking outside the park or many pricey commercial camps. Those need early reservations too.

I have no idea what a SVS is, if it is street legal then maybe OK. Check with the park. I have never seen an ORV on the roads tho.

5 hours ago, Randyretired said:

t is tough to keep up with the laws in each state.  While some are allowing constitution carry others like Colorado are enacting more restrictive laws.  Some counties are also enacting laws in the county that are more restrictive than state laws.  Gun laws are rapidly changing.

Most of those unconstitutional laws get struck down by the courts. But you are always best to assume the worse when in those states/

Especially when traveling in gun hostile areas like the NE and other blue states. Over half the country has constitutional carry and are gun friendly territory, most of the South and Mountain States are safe.

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The laws are changing rapidly tho and no paper book could keep up. Three or four more states went to unrestricted carry this year so far.

Yeah, don't do it. When we crossed in Alberta the border agent knew I had a CCP and questioned me about weapons. I suggest finding a gun store near where you are crossing and get them to store the handgun, at a price I'm sure. Until you return. That locks you into entering and returning in the same area.

I watched a videopod this morning by a couple traveling to Newfoundland. They think that some neer do wells tried to hijack them in Quebec, the stores had bars on the windows and it felt more like San Francisco than what the expected..

Gas was $8-10/gal too everywhere they stopped up there. That felt like Cali too.

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Another issue is that the parks don't receive enough money to do even basic repairs in many cases. 

 

Back during Trumps admin they passed a big chunk of money for park maintenance and repairs. I don't know if that has all been dispensed yet.

11 hours ago, bruce t said:

What's the solution? I have no idea but someone had better find a solution soon or the problems will only get worse.

They have found a solution, G;acier, Yosemite, RMNP have all limited the number of visitors. You have to get a pass in order to enter. YNP is so large they the NPS has not limited that park yet. GSMNP needs to do it in my opinion and has for years. Driving thru Cades Cove will convince you. Tho there is nothing they can do about US 441. Zion and Arches are next probably, Arches has been shutting the gates once they reach their limit. And Zion has that parking lot.

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Go to Arches NP. Crowds!!! Try Canyonlands. The south section. The Needles. Car parks are all but empty. Hike the Confluence trail and you will be lucky to see anyone else on the trail. Yet it's spectacular. 

 

Arches, GSMNP, Zion, South Rim, Yosemite and TNP are all notorious for the mobs. Arches and Zion crowds are blamed on an advert campaign Utah did with big billboards in Times Square and other east and west coast cities. It worked too well.

GSMNP is the only major park in the east so yeah, big mobs. And that pass is not the worst.

We visited Zion in early April last year and there was still a mob scene. So hit these places in late fall or winter.

Canyonlands requires major effort on the part of visitors so no crowds, we did a week there last year. Glacier GTTS road is usually packed.

Such is life in modern tomes hopefully the going-on-the-road craze caused by the plague years is abating. RV sales are way down.

3 minutes ago, LindaH said:

We have visited -- with an RV -- Guadalupe Mountains, Great Basin, and North Cascades.  None of these require a boat to get to.

I never said that they do need a boat, we have been to Guadeloupe and Great Basin several times and want to visit North Cascades. Great Basin is a great visit with a cave but is way off any beaten path being on the famous NV Hwy 50. Guadeloupe is on the way to Carlsbad but there isn't a lot to do in that park. No scenic drives for example and limited hiking.

I'll grant Dry Tortuga as an exception, but who plans to visit Samoa NP? And many of tje Alaska parks are multi day hike in only, and with the bear population up there hiking is no simple affair.

Worthless list for 99% of us. Almost all those listed are impossible to visit for RVers.

A list of the least visited parks in the lower 48 would be much more useful. Like this:

• Wolf Trap NP for the Performing Arts. ...
• Guadalupe Mountains NP. ...
• Voyageurs NP. ...
• Congaree NP. ...
• Great Basin NP. ...
• Dry Tortugas NP. ...
• Isle Royale NP. MICHAEL J THOMPSON/SHUTTERSTOCK. ...
• North Cascades NP. SOISUDAS/SHUTTERSTOCK.
• 
  And even that list is almost half impossibe with out a boat. We have not been to Congree, Voyageurs {which I think has parts on dry land}, or North Cascades. They are on our to-do list. And why is Wolf Trap even a NP in the first place, I smell the stink of politics.