Our camping spot in Walnut Canyon.
Dispersed camping (aka boondocking, free camping, wild camping, dry camping, or roughing it) is the term used for camping anywhere in the National Forest outside of a designated campground. It means no services; such as trash removal, no fire pits, no tables, to hook ups, no bathrooms and usually no nearby restaurants/stores. What you get instead of "luxuries" are few, if any, neighbors; canopy of stars; wild life, and dirt. It is legal to sleep in your vehicle/camper within any federally designated lands: National Forests, BLM, WMA, National Grasslands, trailheads, parking lots and truck stops (unless signage indicates otherwise)
Look closely you can see us.
View away from the coach.
Hiking around Walnut Canyon
The root of 'curled up grass' is used in Navajo Life Medicines, concoctions of several different plant parts known to have special healing powers. Stems can be the fill in Hopi coiled baskets. But the most widespread duty has been as a hairbrush, made from the cut ends of a bundle of stems. the soft ends served as a broom.
This grass is in great abundance here but we decided if we made a broom we probably would not use it, ;) :)