I think you'll be fine getting up there in a 2wd vanagon. The main thing going up past the kilns is clearance more than traction. I've gotten up there before in a Nissan Maxima, so you shouldn't have any problems. -a On 1/23/07, Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > For Death Valley knowers-and-lovers, I have a question. > > What are the Thorndike and Mahogany campgrounds like, specifically for a > 2WD > Westy? I know they're up over 8,000 feet at the end of a dirt road, but > are > they, like, easily accessible, not too dangerous to get to? > > My wife and I visited Death Valley earlier this month, and the campgrounds > on the valley floor weren't quite, uh, wilderness enough. Being enclosed > on > both sides by 40 foot "Bounder" motorhomes, each towing Wranglers with > bikes > on the back, and running Honda generators to power the 42" projection tv, > isn't your ideal way to groove on natural beauty. > > So I was thinking maybe the National Park Service purposely left the roads > to Thorndike and Mahogany impassible to over-25' vehicles just so that we > Vanagon types, along with tenters, could find some peace out there and > gaze > at the stars at night without Ms. Middle America in the Bounder staring at > us as if we're fleas while she fries up the hubby's dinner. > > Anybody been there? Anything too rough for a 2WD Vanagon? > > What a beautiful place it is! I want to go back. > |
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