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good morning we are
on our way to goblin valley state park
we just checked out of our hotel
and we're actually driving through
capitol reef national park right now
to get to goblin valley state park which
is the views are
awesome yeah it's amazing and you know
crystal found out about this place while
we were staying at the hotel we're at
yeah yeah so the red sands hotel is
where we stayed at and
uh they have like these travel guys
which a lot of hotels do when you're
near a national park
um so i picked one up and i was looking
through it and i saw this goblin valley
place i'm like
i never heard of this and it turns out
since our next
uh destination is arches national park
in moab
um goblin valley is kind of on the way
so i was like you know what and it's
only
to go to arches national park from
capitol reef it's only
two hour two and a half hour or
something like that uh so
you know we knew that we had some time
today to do some other things we were
like you know what
let's go to goblin valley state park
because i saw that it was only an hour
and a half
from this national park and you know
since it was on the way anyway why not
stop by
plus you can take your dog with you too
and we have kuma with us
so this will be really fun for all of us
together
yeah fun fact when i was reading about
it it became a state park
in the 70s so it's a fairly new state
park compared to like
i feel like other state parks we've been
to but um
i'm pretty excited to see it it looks
really funky in photos
just the and the name of it too goblin
but yeah so it says uh in the 1920s a
local cowboy
uh minor and engineer stumbled upon this
unique valley of bizarre formations
while searching for new cattle row
uh so he first called it the mushroom
valley but then by 1964
utah designated it as goblin valley
state park
oh 16. so it was 64. i could have sworn
in 70s
yeah let me double check here okay
goblin valley state park
uh no i don't see anything about this i
wonder why i saw that
well oh also uh the park's unique
landscape provided the backdrop for the
movie galaxy quest
you guys seen that i have never seen
that i don't know what movie that is it
kind of sounds familiar to me yeah
i don't know i feel like it's like an
older movie or something but it might be
totally wrong but what if it's one of
those new ones
with um whatever yeah i have no idea but
it's
it was a set for a movie so that's kind
of cool um so there are like
there's some hiking trails here it makes
it easy to explore they said in an
hour or two um and there's some
petroglyphs
and pictographs there as well so maybe
we might come across
that yeah we're kind of excited to check
out this new place because it wasn't
even on our itinerary
but it sounds pretty unique uh we've
never heard of it before
so doing something different and is
always fun
um but yeah so after goblin valley state
park then we're going to
move on to moab where we're going to
stay for a couple of days
i didn't realize it sorry i didn't
realize it was moab i thought it was
both the whole time
i thought it was mo at first i was going
to say mo mobo but
i started watching like these youtube
videos thank goodness for those like
reviews because
i would have said mob the entire time
but um
they said it's a small app okay so yes i
will be staying in moab
for a couple of days because we're gonna
explore arches national park we're
pretty excited for that national park as
well it's more popular than capitol reef
we love capitol reef national parks
first of all i felt like we had the
place to ourselves the entire we totally
did you know because a lot of national
parks that you go to
um they're just so overcrowded you don't
have
it's rare that you have your own space
especially if it's a really popular
national park
if you go on hikes there's like a lot of
people um and if you're driving and if
you want to stop over somewhere
everybody else starts stopping we have
to worry about parking like we got
together really early because all the
parking spots are going to be gone
yeah there's just like a lot more things
you have to worry about
at other national parks whereas this one
i felt like
we didn't worry about anything we had
none of that it was so
stress-free yeah and we actually skipped
bryce canyon
and kept and decided to go to capitol
reef instead and
um i'm glad we did too
decision for us
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all right so we're about 15 actually
we're about 21 minutes
from goblin state valley and we're
coming out across some interesting rock
formations again
um is it kind of something to bryce
canyon i feel like do yeah
yeah so far on this drive it's been
scenic the entire way
yeah it's been a lovely drive i can't
believe it's already been over an hour
it doesn't feel like it yeah i can't
believe we're almost there yeah it went
by
really really fast i guess that's what
happens when you have really nice views
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so that's actually the same fee as
capitol reef national park
okay we're here goblins
state park it says park boundary
i don't see any goblin like things yet i
think
we have to descend down or something
closes at 10 pm
hello good how are you
looks like motorcycles are ten dollars
bicycles and pedestrians are ten dollars
campground is 30 bucks thank you thank
you so much
so the goblin valley has one of the
darkest guy night skies on earth
that's a capital recent i guess this is
another place
well it's one of them so
valley of goblins to the left
range your residence to the right
this road is new oh i'm very new
you're up to this place so let's see the
goblins known scientifically as
hoodoos were formed through the gradual
erosion of entrada sandstone
which was deposited about 170 million
years ago
they look so cute they're all around oh
yeah
people are just like stopping by yeah
they're just stopping and taking some
pictures
i guess we'll just go down
oh so okay this is the end of it
yeah and i guess you can get out here
and explore
are you ready ready for a little
adventure
yeah it's about 90 degrees i think it's
at 88 degrees or something still not bad
though let's go guys
ready i kind of got to feed your hair
going yeah you do
who do hair like millions of years ago
in a jurassic period it used to be a
seafront property
can't i climb the goblins that's about
to ask no
we do not recommend it but we've seen so
many pictures of people
on it well i guess it says they don't
reckon i guess you can
oh i see it just they're saying it might
be unstable
that's the most common accidents here
because of accidents i'm not really
saying
because it's like a risk to the rocks or
anything
it's extremely remote and a long way
from medical services
all right so those are the hooters
we're up on deck and you just go down
some stairs
or we see some people going and just
kind of wander through this little
goblin valley and
uh we're about to go do that now yeah
thank you
kind of like oh stairs
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someone loves to balance it
easier than going down the stack yeah
what about you gonna go down that
too slippery baby see what she does here
nope she's gonna use the steps on that
one okay so here we enter
the first hoodoo
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and touch one
oh yeah it's very rough it kind of feels
like the um
joshua tree oh yeah it does it can just
like go into these little
clusters of hoodoos
and you're enclosed in them
i love how it's dock friendly it is nice
those dogs only how cool wasn't this
nice
can you imagine you and zoey running
around in here oh my gosh that'd be so
funny
she's like i'll rest right here so this
is a nice shaded spot
already huh yeah look at this girl
that is a good baby yeah
always such a good girl
such a good model over here
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okay look at kuma go
good job kuma she's trying to ketchup
cheetah oh
i'm sorry i know
all of a sudden i got super hot the
clouds went away and the sun came
in it's brutal yeah it's a little brutal
right now so we're gonna head back
and kuma's ready to go back too so yeah
it's a little hot for her
yeah so we did explore some cool looking
rocks
yeah twenty dollars for this we think is
a little bit on the expensive side
steep i think yeah but you know maybe
they need to
hire the workers to stay out here and
stuff
yeah cause it's very remote compared to
other national parks yeah
there's like no civilization it seems
like for miles
miles a mile so yeah we can see maybe
that's why they have to
you know put up the price on this place
yeah
it's not even that many steps but in the
heat
it's kind of kind of brutal kill us
working hard
good girl baby
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we're moving on now to uh moab
and uh goblin state park was pretty
interesting it was
way different you know than anything
you'll see
in other state parks i think i like that
they have like a poop
poop back station for the dogs because
you really don't see that in
a lot of state parks or national parks
so i really appreciate that there was
uh proper trash cans because sometimes i
can't find trash cans either
very clean bathroom yeah the bathrooms
candy really love the bathroom she's
like oh my god i would pay 20
for that well compared to other places
like other national parks where it's
just a hole or it stinks or it just
looks
dirty but then you can tell like they've
been cleaning it i mean it's not you
but it's well maintained for sure very
clean yeah running water
yeah i think it's a pretty cool stop to
do if you're
in this area yeah i definitely wouldn't
make a trip just to go here but if it's
along the way to
like somewhere you're going then i think
it's a fun little stop
and then there were some other things
you could do around there too there was
like some
horse canyon i believe and muddy river
that you could go to
there's lots of color right now yeah i'm
looking around i know i have like
polarized cause
oh yeah there's a lot a lot of color
like red browns white
green green yellow yellow yeah
lots of color which is um nice change of
scenery because for a little while for a
little stretch there was just like kind
of like all black
um mounds of it almost looks like mounds
of
sand but it's probably you know rocks
yeah um but yeah i don't know it looks
really gloomy
when it's really dark everywhere so when
the colors came back i was like oh
we got all happy again yeah it just made
me happy
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okay we're in moab and approaching our
hotel very soon
lots of construction uh
i guess they were doing some work with
the pipes or something
we made one stop after goblin valley
state park
at exit 161 we stopped at a gas station
there was like a big exit with lots of
stuff
a couple gas stations uh hotels
restaurants
not too many like things we wanted to
eat there was like a subway blimpy
arby's and we really don't like those
and then shortly like a little bit after
that there's actually a rest area so
yeah
if you don't need to get gas but just
why yeah that was at uh
exit 181 i know what i did oh on um
sorry on interstate 70.
where's the denny's here i haven't been
at denny's in forever
yes probably since college i know like
me and candy you know we used to go
daddy's all the time when we're in
pensacola when we're going to college
i have a like i used to study with like
my friends at
denny's and people used to be able to
like smoke in there too that's
crazy yeah there's a hyatt place here
looks brand new in one mile
the destination is on your left 132
north main street
yeah we're staying at a home with suites
this was actually
one of the most expensive hotels they
paid for
oh kenny's gonna back it up she gonna
back it up
sometimes i wonder if you're allowed to
because some states are not allowed to
oh really because there's no plate in
the front mine doesn't have a place yeah
so
like i want a place on the floor they
don't allow you to park back park
because they can't see the license plate
not so much in california because you
have plates on both sides
why never back parker actually nobody in
florida back parks
it's just sometimes it's easy to just
get out when you want to go you know i
know it is it really is
and you have a nice camera on your car
so it's easy to see
i do okay everybody mask up
except for akuma we are here we got our
room keys we're in our room and
first off i was like oh my gosh there's
a kitchen it's a big fridge we're gonna
probably relax here
for tonight and probably try to find
something to eat around here there's
like a little town
with lots of little restaurants thank
goodness because i'm hungry yeah
and then tomorrow probably wake up super
early to go check
arches national park because it's right
by this hotel
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