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Backpacker Magazine – September 2012
Easy Epics: 17 Drive-up Campsites a Backpacker Will Love
Combine the best of car camping (spacious tents, comfy chairs, frosty margaritas!) and the best of backpacking (deep solitude, outrageous scenery, swimming holes!) with these 17 accessible hideaways.
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Canaan Mountain Backcountry Canaan Loop Road
Beat the Dolly Sods crowds in this alpine sanctuary.
The brutal winters and frequent wind here in this part of West Virginia are more typical of Québec than the Mid-Atlantic. Stunted conifers hold on for dear life, while rock promontories afford views of distant ranges and river valleys. If that sounds like Dolly Sods, one of the busiest wilderness areas in the East, you’re warm. Move 20 miles west to Canaan Mountain Backcountry and you’ll shed The Sods’ crowds but not the alpine magnetism. This site is a favorite of Johnny Molloy, who wrote Day and Overnight Hikes: West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest. “Some of the best high-country car camping sites I’ve found anywhere in the country are up where Forest Road 13 (Canaan Loop Road) intersects the eight hiking trails and multiple peaks of Canaan Mountain,” he says. Plus, the campsites offer a meadow-pine matrix seldom seen in the East. The area’s 13,532 acres harbor miles of interconnected trails that create a Chinese menu’s worth of dayhikes. But any itinerary should include the chef’s specials: White Rim Rocks, Table Rock Overlook, the rim at Blackwater River Gorge, and the bushwhack to Mozark Mountain.
Get there Take WV 32 south 3.3 miles from the Blackwater River bridge in Davis to a large sign pointing to “#1 Wilderness Road.” This is the Canaan Loop Rd.; high clearance recommended. Access crosses private land.
Call Allegheny Wood Products (304-257-1082) to secure permission before traveling on the northern portion of the road. UTM 17S 0624904E 4324606N
Map USGS Quad Blackwater Falls ($8, store.usgs.gov)
Contact fs.usda.gov/mnf; (304) 636-1793
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thanks for the corrections guys!
JQ 11/24/12 is all over this one, right on, good call! Some of us do read these comments, and unlike BM (the former Backpacker Magazine), most of us can probably read a map. Editing and fact-checking by BM is cost prohibitive maybe? Nah!, dunno. Compass point directions (north, south, east, west) are strictly optional for BM, just drive for hours in the wrong direction, it's OK you'll get there someday, right? Maybe they do it to keep the riff-raff out?, yeah that's it. Similar to this Gardner Canyon location, the directions to the Galiuro Mtns. destination was off by 180 degrees. Page 66 of the AZ DeLorme clearly shows Gardner Canyon Rd. heading WEST into the EAST side of the Mount Wrightson Wilderness. They are celebrating Amendment 64 a little early down in Boulder and now BM just can't be trusted any longer, too bad, they were the bible once. Take the suggestions and recon it yourself.
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I'm not sure if anybody reads these comments, but just a few corrections that should be pointed out for the trip to Gardner Canyon in AZ. First, Gardner Canyon is actually on the Side of Mt Wrightson. Second, the directions are not completely accurate. The author states "From Sonoita, take AZ 83 21 miles to Gardner Canyon Rd". The directions should say from Vail, take AZ 83 21 miles south. Gardner canyon road is actually about 9mi north of Sonoita. The reason this is important is because is you take AZ 83 about 25mi south, you will see a road called "Garden Canyon Rd" down by Fort Huachuca which is not where you want to go. This would be an easy mistake for somebody to make if they were not aware.
Overall camping in Gardner Canyon is just as they say. Plenty of hiking, even some places for some pretty good off road driving if your vehicle can handle it. Campsites are awesome, and complete solitude. All the joys of backpacking and car camping put together into one.
I'm not sure if anybody reads these comments, but just a few corrections that should be pointed out for the trip to Gardner Canyon in AZ. First, Gardner Canyon is actually on the Side of Mt Wrightson. Second, the directions are not completely accurate. The author states "From Sonoita, take AZ 83 21 miles to Gardner Canyon Rd". The directions should say from Vail, take AZ 83 21 miles south. Gardner canyon road is actually about 9mi north of Sonoita. The reason this is important is because is you take AZ 83 about 25mi south, you will see a road called "Garden Canyon Rd" down by Fort Huachuca which is not where you want to go. This would be an easy mistake for somebody to make if they were not aware.
Overall camping in Gardner Canyon is just as they say. Plenty of hiking, even some places for some pretty good off road driving if your vehicle can handle it. Campsites are awesome, and complete solitude. All the joys of backpacking and car camping put together into one.
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Yea!! Let's hear it for car camping!! Great as a plan or to start or end a Backpacking trip. 17 = 17 though, not 16. Couldn't help but notice BM dropped #14 (page 71 9/12 issue) Galiuro Mtns. destination. Directions for that spot were only off by 180 degrees. Been there, nice spot from now 'til May. Too bad BM couldn't have included #14 and corrected the directions. Oh well, keeps the non-mapreaders away I guess.
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