Leaving Thompson Springs, Utah (August 22, 2018)

Our HomeAway in Thompson Springs, 37 miles north of Moab, Utah, the closest town to Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park.

Now nearly a ghost town, Thompson Springs was founded in 1883 and served area ranchers, coal miners, and sheepherders. The abandoned buildings are now for sale: a dance hall with an old piano, a rock shop with the inventory (a pile of rocks), a boarding house.   

An RV park remains open in Thompson Springs.  "Big shade" is a relative term, as you can see from the trees in the photo below.

Papa Tom photographs what is left of Thompson Springs.

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Road trip!  We were surprised by a convoy of Corvettes headed out to the pictographs and petroglyphs about 3 miles further down a bumpy dirt road.  We barely had enough clearance in our rented Dodge Durango when we visited the 9,000-year-old art the day before.  Pretty sure the Corvettes will bottom out.