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The Grand Canyon – Bright Angel Trail and Campgrounds

Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canyon

We made it! 

There are few things in life that feel as good as the first stretch the morning after a particularly invigorating yoga class.  What does not feel so good is the wake up stretch the morning after climbing from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the top – ouch!  But to say that the hike is worth it is a gross understatement.  It is more than worth it.  After a night down at the Bright Angel Campground (see the post here about our hike down the South Kaibab Trail to the campground at the bottom of the Grand Canyon!), we were headed back up to climb out of the canyon.

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CAMPSITE REVIEW | BLACK ROCK CANYON, JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK

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In addition to chronicling our adventures, I thought I’d make this blog a bit useful as well.  And so this begins a series of campsite reviews for the places that we are camping.  We’ll start with Black Rock Canyon Campgrounds, in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Of course for a review to be useful, it’s got to be conducted along some sort of metric, it needs to be accompanied by photos and it needs to be personal. I’ll only review campsites that we stayed in for 2 days or more, so that in fairness we stayed long enough to get a general sense of the place.

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