From there, we took highway 95 south to Interstate 10 and west into Blythe. We went from rugged mountains and desert...
...to lush agricultural land; quite a contrast...
Even cotton fields...
We filled up with fresh water at Miller Park in Blythe...
...and then continued another couple of miles west on I-10 before taking highway 78 south. We drove passed acres and acres of agricultural land...
Lots of canals filled from the Colorado River to water the fields...
After driving for awhile, we came to the turnoff that Serena (GPS) told us to take to Cibola National Wildlife Refuge...hmmm...there wasn’t a sign indicating this was the turnoff. Serena has been known to lead us astray at times and this was one of them. We drove a little further until we found a place where we could turn around. There also happened to be a road maintenance worker there so Steve got out to ask him for directions. That didn’t prove to be much help...he hadn’t heard of Oxbow BLM Campground and all he knew about the road into the wildlife refuge was that it was really bumpy. So we just continued back along the highway...the info I had on Oxbow BLM Campground was that the turnoff was 3 miles south of Palo Verde. We came across a road with a sign that indicated Cibola boat launch but no indication of Oxbow BLM Campground. Normally the BLM areas are very well marked. We were still a little leery...it is a gravel road and we definitely do not like taking our rig down a road when we do not know if we will be able to turnaround.
We found the campground, parked the truck and took a walk through it. There was no one else camped there other than the camp host...and they weren’t home. There was one nice spot right on the river that we liked but we decided to carry onto the refuge to see what it was like. When we left the main campground, we realized that there were also sites on the other side of the road...so there were some other people camped here after all.
We drove across the bridge over to the Arizona side...
We decided to go back to Oxbow to the site on the
river. Getting into the spot turned out
to be a bit of an issue...we just couldn’t make it around a big tree, so we
ended up backing into the spot.
After getting all set up, we sat out and relaxed as the sun went down.
The bridge in the background goes over to Arizona...
After getting all set up, we sat out and relaxed as the sun went down.
The bridge in the background goes over to Arizona...
Looks like a pretty secluded area. What made you wander out there?
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoyed the sunset - desert sunsets are hard to beat.
Word of mouth plus we like to explore different BLM areas...there are so many of them in the southwest.
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