Recapture Canyon

This is a great trail ride full of ruins and modern history that dates back to the spanish explorers.

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• ATV
• Trails
• BLM
• Recapture
• san
• juan
• safari
• scenic
• Utah
• OTBPMaps
• Motorbike
• OHV
• trails

[welsmj64]

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[welsmj64]

There isn't a whole lot out there that is factual due to the fact that part of the agreement with the courts was that they don't talk with the media or release any details. Well information has gotten out but most of what you find is the half truths and flat out lies that have been generated by special interest groups and those with an agenda. You could contact SPEAR4all and they could probably give you an account of the different events concerning the trail.

[welsmj64]

Amen!

[welsmj64]

We didn’t dig “mokees” then and I don’t dig them now, but I must admit that the “the love affair with San Juan County still burns bright. The only difference is that my knees have now failed me, so the only way I can “hike” is on my 4-wheeler.

by Edwin of Blanding

[welsmj64]

It was because of this early introduction that I “fell in love” with lower Recapture Canyon. I remember more that 1 year in the fall, riding horses from the lower Recapture crossing where the County Road now crosses Recapture, up the canyon. We would gather all the cows along the way and drive them up the now infamous “Recapture Trail” so they could pasture in the hay fields for the winter.

by Edwin of Blanding

[welsmj64]

My personal knowledge of the “Recapture Trail” started in the early 1940’s. I worked for my Grandfather each summer driving hay wagon from the field to the stockyard. At noon I would unhitch my team, ride one horse and lead the other down that trail to water them, then ride back up and feed them. Then I could eat my lunch.

by Edwin of Blanding

[barnsdorffer]

After reviewing another video from environmental groups, I find that as much destruction is created by those on foot, So either close the canyon down for all or open it up for equal rights. Lwas cannot be enacted to satisfy only a few.

[welsmj64]

My first memory was stories my mother told when I was a lad. My Grandfather ran a small herd of cows in Recapture Canyon when she was teenager. He did what was necessary to a natural cow trail to make it passable, so that on dry years when a closer spring failed they could get a team and wagon down in the canyon to fill water barrels and haul them up to the homestead.

by Edwin of Blanding

[welsmj64]

Thank you for the obvious clarification between open to walk in and closed to ATV usage. The issue here has little to do with it being closed to ATV's, the issue is that of state rights, and local citizens rights when it comes to so called public lands. How do we protect the rights of all those involved without taking away the rights of others. Because once either party loses their unalienable rights all involved lose. That outcome goes against the foundation of this country.

[yayoubetcha]

The trail is not closed. It is closed for ATV usage. That's a big difference.

I suggest to those who ride ATVs is that you get off your lazy butts, and hike this canyon where you can enjoy the beauty at a respectful, quiet, pace.

As far as those who cannot hike... get on a horse or a mule. Mules... taking physically challenged people up and down the Grand Canyon for over a century.