Pine Flat, AZ - Labor Day, 2014

Thanks to our son-in-law's local hunting knowledge, we stayed at a beautiful spot in the pine forests about 30 miles south of Williams, Arizona for 3 nights during Labor Day weekend. Dave had found this gorgeous camping spot overlooking Pine Flat meadow (click the following link to view in a Google map:  http://bit.ly/1lF5cHS). We met up with another 4 families for this picture-perfect camping spot. Everyone else had quads, ATVs, sand rails, etc. which we took for rides throughout the forest service roads all the way to Sycamore Point (about 25 miles) looking down on the beautiful canyons north of Sedona. We made friends with a couple of very tame horses that visited us in the camp each evening. The dogs all had fun running around together, leash-free!

Pam and I decided to spend our last night at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park in Williams to avoid the heavy Labor Day traffic going back down I-17 to Phoenix. It's a nice RV park located right next to the depot for the steam train to the Grand Canyon with paved pull-thru spots (but no shade). It was sure nice to have internet, cell-phone service, electricity, running water and sewer hookups after 3 nights of roughing it dry-camping (if you can call sleeping in a 35' motorhome "roughing it", haha)!

Overall, it was a great experience. We now see what the appeal is to dry-camping that I read so much about. We'll be going back there again!