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‘Moki Dugway and The Valley of the Gods’ by Deborah Owen

It was the fall of 1987 when we drove over Moki Dugway to access the Valley of the Gods road. We didn’t know that Moki was not suitable for an RV or that it grew narrower as it went. On that trip, we learned not to follow all the wheel tracks we saw. 

We chugged southbound on SR 261 in our old ‘78 Titan and faced Moki Dugway without hesitation. Our first tremors came during the set of switchbacks, but gravel roads without rails and a 1,000-foot sheer drop-off shook us up more. Halfway to the bottom, we came face to face with another motor home whose occupants were equally as ignorant – but hey, they were on the inside track. All they had to do was watch us go over the edge and report a fatality. Read the rest »