White Tank Mountain Regionl Park 2/21/15

Arrival at White Tank Mountain Regional Park

We arrived at the campground early in the afternoon to meet our friends, Rich and Cathy and George and Estelle.  More couples will arrive over the next two days until we have a total of nine couples.  On Tuesday all of us will be caravanning to The Rally at the Phoenix International Raceway.  In the meantime, we are going to explore this park in the Arizona desert west of Phoenix.

We left home on Thursday morning and drove to the River Run RV Park in Bakersfield.  I wrote about it in my January blog.  It makes a nice waypoint for our travels into the southwest part of the country.

Friday was a long day of driving, about 379 miles, to Quartzsite, AZ.  At this time of year they are one hour ahead of California, so we had one less hour of daylight, according to the clock.  This view in the side view mirror caused us to pull over to the side of I-10 in southern California to get some photos.  I like the way the reflection in the side of the trailer makes it look like the trailer is transparent.  The tiny crescent moon and Venus can be seen in the upper left corner of the picture.  Perhaps it will be easier to see if you enlarge the picture by clicking on it.

 

We found a nice spot to park, for the night, on BLM land near the freeway on the east side of town.  This is our camp as seen in the morning when it got light again.  Quartzsite is much less active and less populated than it was when we were here in January.

Here is some of the scenery that we saw along I-10 in Arizona.  This is what the desert along I-10 looks like most of the way from Quartzsite to Buckeye, AZ.  That is, flat or slight rolling hills with some bushes and a few trees and mountains in the distance.  Sometimes, there isn't much scrub greenery and there is a more sandy appearance.

 

White Tank Mountain Regional Park campground is set in a beautiful native desert.  The sites are surrounded by vegetation and are spaced a good distance from each other as seen by the surrounding area of our campsite.  We have a large amount of room that is designated as our campsite.

 

We're the trailer in the middle.

 

After we were set up, we took a bike ride around the campground then went out on a trail that winds around behind our campsite.  These photos give you an idea of the surrounding area and the beautiful plants in this park.  The first is looking at our site from the trail.  You can see Phoenix in the distance.  The second is a general desert scene of a multitude of desert plants. 

 

We are looking forward to spending the next two days here.