SATURDAY / JULY 9 / ENTERPRISE RESERVOIR CAMPING /CAMPING WEST OF BEAVER

SATURDAY

JULY 9 2025

ENTERPRISE RESERVOIR CAMPING

Dogs let us sleep in until 7AM.

I went potty.

I got up with the dogs and got dressed. I put on their harnesses. Hubby stayed in bed sleeping.

I walked the dogs toward the entrance of the park when the deer next door in space #6 jumped out in front of us. I imagined being drug out over the scrub brush and the rock into the hills because I could not drop the leashes fast enough.  But the dogs FROZE and just watched the deer jump into the hills. They did NOT EVEN BARK!

The deer stopped at the top of the hill, turned around, silhouetted inbetween two huge rocks and looked back over her shoulder. It was MAJESTIC.

We finished our walk. PBJR refused to pee or poop. Riley & Tater did both.

We walked back to the camper where Hubby was already preparing dog food breakfast. I warmed up water in the microwave for my hot tea, but we forgot to bring a coffee cup for Hubby's latte.

We sat around camp for a while, then decided to leave and find someplace else to camp.

We cleaned everything up at camp. Packed the camper. Took the dogs on another walk before we left. PBJR FINALLY PEED.

From Enterprise Reservoir, we drove thru Enterprise (latte stand was NOT open) we drove north to Beryl Junction, turned east to Cedar City,

Nice drive. Not a lot to see. Scrubbrush and hills. Desert.

Got fuel at Cedar City  we stopped to get lunch but Arby's was closed. Looks like remodeling? Painters. 

Then stopped for burgers at Burger King (Hubby parked at the side of the parking lot and walked inside to get burgers for dogs, chicken sandwich for me & onion ring/fries). 

We went to the Bicentennial Soccer Complex to eat lunch, but too many people/dogs were there and walking past. A young father on a bicycle with trailer had his little baby on the handle bars with NO helmet. He also had another baby in the trailer. He was going REALLY fast on the sidewalk.

We left there and drove north on 130 to Minersville. Lots of nothing-just scrubbrush.

Turned east on 21 and stopped at Hanging Rock Campground to play in the water and let dogs potty. There was a burning campfire that Hubby took the dog bowl and put creek water into it so he could douse the still burning fire. There was also a branch that had fallen outside the fire pit that was burning. Lots of gross crawdads everywhere they had boiled and thrown out a huge watermelon that was already attracting flies.

Then we drove thru to Beaver and stopped at The Creamery for cheese curds, LOTS of cars there. We stopped at Beans & Brews for iced coffees - many, many Tesla chargers there. Had to park in overflow parking and Hubby went to get our drinks. We are using our APP and getting free coffees or discounted coffees.

Drove thru town and stopped at Mike's Food Town. Hubby went inside to get blueberry muffins, eggs, and ice. He said it was very similiar to Miller's when we first moved there. Mike's Food Town was doing remodeling. 

We drove east on State Road 153 thru town. Hubby had to stop and drive off course because he saw "TENTS", which turned out to be a little league/peewee baseball games. 

We continued our drive thru the gorge which was narrow. Had to avoid going off side of road into river and rocks on sheer rock walls. 

Drove to the Little Cottonwood Campground, but it was tents only, very full. We had to turn around and come back down the hill.

We drove to Mahogany Cove Campground which was on a switchback. Very deserted. We found a great spot at #8. Went to pay, but did not have change. 

Set everything out and settled down to sitting on the camp chairs. Walked the dogs. At 7PM, the camphost came thru and Hubby paid them a $20 and got $10 in change. They were driving an old rusted truck. Said they do not get very many guests here at all. There was a Mercedes sprinter van that parked behind us. 

We watched vehicles strain to get up the hill in front of our camp, airplanes go overhead, ground squirrels across at the other campsite. I took some pretzels and the gross blueberry muffins over and sat them down on a rock.

PBJR IN BEAVER RIVER AT CAMPGROUND NEXT TO HIGHWAY

PBJR AT 2ND CAMPGROUND

RILEY AT 2ND CAMPGROUND

TATER AT 2ND CAMPGROUND

HUBBY WASHING OFF DOG BOWL

We walked the dogs again and encountered a ratty old truck with meth woman driving and older man on passenger side. They came in and used the bathroom. We walked quickly back to the campsite in case they decided to steal things. 

While I was in the bathroom of our camper, they drove around and talked to Hubby, said "this is the nicest camper we have ever seen" which was REALLY ODD TO SAY.

I talked to Hubby and told him I felt distressed about that. We don't have our gun on the camper. 

 

Hubby sat down to have his ribs and ate them while I was itching to get out of there. The sun was going down and I did not want to be there in the dark. 

 

By 8:30PM we had packed up the camper and put the dogs in the truck. Turned on the A/C so they would be comfortable. 

Drove on I-15 back to Mesquite. The sun went down. At 10:30PM, we were back home. 

I took a shower and washed Riley & PBJR. They were filthy from the last campground which was covered in fine silt ash dirt.

Hubby just unloaded necessities from the camper-our bags. Some food that might spoil.

Hubby took a shower then and washed Tater. 

Hubby cleaned up the cat litter as Sage had peed outside the box again. The pee was on te floor. Hubby helped dry off the dogs. The dogs ran outside and had zoomies.

Put the dogs out for one last potty before bed.

We had some food and went to bed about 11PM. We were exhausted.