09-21-21 Tuesday Mt. Rushmore Trip Day 21 Elderberry Family Farm Payson UT

- September 21, 2021

09-21-21 Tuesday Mt. Rushmore Trip Day 21

Elderberry Family Farm

Payson, UT

I forgot to mention a few things about Rangely, CO in my post last night. I found it to be an interesting place.

Rangely’s motto is “Way outside ordinary!”, which I think is weird. As you drive west out of town you start to notice oil derricks for miles. All the oil fields are owned by Chevron. Per Wikipedia today, Chevron drilled their first deep oil well in 1931. It currently has 406 producing wells. There is rock crawling parks, 9 hole golf course, Kennedy Reservoir, miles of BLM dirt raids , biking and hiking. The town is very run down but the local Mexican restaurant was excellent. There giant margarita is only $8.50.

The beautiful color brochure we received at our camp ground gives you a lot of information for outdoor activities as mentioned earlier. Other outdoor activities include bow and rifle hunting. The brochure is a little misleading but the town needs all the help it can get.

We would not stay at the Buck ‘N’ Bull RV park again. It’s surrounded by industrial shops and no aesthetics at all, however it had a flat gravel pad and full service so it was OK for 2 nights. We saw many other nicer parks when we drove to Dinosaur National Park. Even the Dino National Park had a nice one down by Green River.

We would come back to see the 17 Rock Art sites that are up to 4,000 years old. The petroglypha and pictographs are all listed in the Rangely colored brochure with the directions how to find them. I'm not sure why they didn't add a map when they have a map for Dinosaur National Park. So much for Rangely.

Our drive today from Rangely, CO to Payson, UT was uneventful but a long one, 4 hours.

We saw a drive through Subway Sandwich in Ballard, UT. First time.

From Duchesne, UT we turned off US-191 onto US-6. The road took us through a narrow canyon that is beautiful. The trees are starting to change color. A few small cattle ranches but what is interesting is there are oil derricks all through the canyon. In some spots there would be 5 right next to each other. Not what we expected. We were hoping to see some Elk but no luck. We went over a dozen or so of cattle guards. The last few miles of US-6 was dirt road until it joined I-15. All in all it was a beautiful drive.

We made it to Elderberry Family Farm in Payson, UT. The had us go down the road about a mile to a church, turn around and come back so we could enter their property and park in the right direction. All the other RVs staying tonight had to do the same thing. There are 5 RVs parked here for the night. Around 7PM the owners invited us into the front area of their home to view all the Elderberry items they had. We purchased jam, tea and Elderberry powder (to make lemonade). She had a pitcher of lemonade made and it was delicious. Great place to stay and would recommend this to other Harvest Host members.

Good night all and sweet Elderberry dreams.