A loop through the Kofa 04-05-14

I decided to take John on a ride in the Kofa game refuge.

We left the RV park around 9:00 and headed east on I-10.
We turned south at Vicksburg Rd and stopped there to top off the gas tank and aired down.
From there we continued south on the dirt road and stopped at the Kiosk to show John where we were going on the map.

We continued south to the pipeline road where we turned west and continued to intersection 16 where we turned south.

We stopped to check out the Kofa cabin.

From there we continued across the desert. The trail drops into a wash and follows for a couple miles. At one point there is a trail that goes to the right to a monument that commemorates the dedicating of the Kofa game refuge.

We drove back to the main trail and continued toward Big Horne Pass. Along the way we stopped to check out some petroglyphs.

  

Eventually we got to the top of the pass.

We drove down the south side of the pass and turned west in Hoodoo wash and drove to the Willbanks Cabin.

We were planning to have lunch there but there were several people there so we headed east in the wash and eventually arrived at the Hoodoo Hilton where we stopped for lunch.

After lunch we drove south and went over Red Rock Pass.  Eventually got back to the Pipeline road where we turned east. In a couple of miles we got back to Vicksburg Rd. We traveled north on Vicksburg Road until we came back to the pavement. We stopped there to air up the tires. We got back on I-10 and headed west back to Quartzsite arriving at the RV around 5:00.

We went to the Mountain Quail for the Prime Rib special.

This morning we had breakfast at the Times 3 restaurant with John and then he left to go back to Sparks, NV.