Overflow campground-Natural Bridges, UT

So here we are in the overflow campground at Natural Bridges National Monument. We called ahead from Captial Reef to check on the camping situation here and were told they had a campground without dump station or water. Okay, so that was no problem.

Anyway, after a wonderful drive from Capital Reef across some of the strangest country we have ever seen and across the beautiful Glen Canyon Recreation Area we come up to the Natural Bridges National Monument. We quickly learn that they only have 13 camp sites and you must be 26 ft or less. Okay, so they send us off to their overflow area which about 7 miles down the road and we are to look for a gravel area.

We found the turn off okay but no gravel area - instead we find a corral and nothing there... so we figured what the heck and decided to make that our new home for a few days. After getting settled we took for the town of Blanding and had a lovely sunset in the evening. One other rig was there so figured all was ok. Oh yes, we did drive on down this gravel road in search of the gravel area and found the road did continue quite a ways with terrible ruts from the torrential downpour we had last weekend!

First thing today we packed our picnic lunch and headed over to the Monument to check out the 3 natural bridges which are supposed to be something else! We hiked down to each one and after about 6 miles we finally made it all the way through, had a great lunch and headed for home.

As we pulled up in the car we noticed the corral was no longer EMPTY. No, we had quite a number of youngest looking cows. They would only look at us and couldn't tell us anything. Did not take long before a truck and trailer pulled up and we were told we were fine where we were. So these two folks loaded up their truck to sell off the calves they had in this batch.

Next thing you know here come a whole herd of cows with 4 cowboys. The real thing or so it would seem. They picked the worse time of day to herd these cows into the corral (working around the Blue 'Roo -without complaint). The wind was blowing sand everywhere and we were a bit surprised they did not have bandana's covering their mouths. They did a great job and have really worked hard today from what we can see.

They have made a few trips back and forth with their truck and trailer sorting cows and taking them in different loads. One of these cowboys appeared to be quite young (maybe early teens).

As I sit here this evening writing I see the sky is covered with so many colors with a lovely lovely sunset. We are so very fortunate.