Wait Day 2? what do you mean. This is the 3rd day since leaving. Yes 3rd day since leaving but only the 2nd day of traveling. But, let me catch you up on where we have been.
As I explain we landed at the Kaibab Paiute Rv CG just west of Fredonia.
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Wonderful place to stay as it is a Dark Sky area. The cost using Passport America was $12.50 / night.
A small walking trail is nearby, allowing about a 3/4 mile walk one way. The back. There is a National Monument within 1/2 mile. The National Government and the Paiute Nation have a working agreement.
Learn all about the spring water that was the life blood to the Paiute. But the LDS built a fort on top of the spring.
Pipe Spring was named by the 1858 Latter-day Saint missionary expedition to the Hopi mesas led by Jacob Hamblin. In the 1860s Mormon pioneers from St. George, Utah, led by James M. Whitmore brought cattle to the area, and a large cattle ranching operation was established. In 1866 the Apache, Navajo and Paiute tribes of the region joined the Utes for the Black Hawk War, and, after they raided Pipe Spring, a protective fort was constructed by 1872 over the main spring. The following year the fort and ranch was purchased by Brigham Young for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The LDS Bishop of nearby Grafton, Utah, Anson Perry Winsor, was hired to operate the ranch and maintain the fort, soon called Winsor Castle. This isolated outpost served as a way station for people traveling across the Arizona Strip, that part of Arizona separated from the rest of the state by the Grand Canyon. It also served as a refuge for polygamist wives during the 1880s and 1890s. The LDS Church lost ownership of the property through penalties involved in the federal Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887.
Although their way of life was greatly impacted by Mormon settlement, the Paiute Indians continued to live in the area and by 1907 the Kaibab Paiute Indian Reservation was established, surrounding the privately owned Pipe Spring ranch. In 1923, the Pipe Spring ranch was purchased and set aside as a national monument to be a memorial to western pioneer life.
Thanks to Wikipedia
DaGirls Rv AKA Gus
No one knows what the "P" stands for
There is also a ridge which you can hike up to. Well that seem to good to pass up.
I know, I know.
Finally, to start the day we arrived in time for Raising of the Flag:
Tribal Leader who served, led the Raising
Susan, Tilly, Dakota and me
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