Saturday, March 3, 2012 - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM
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Camped at City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 3, 2012
What a hoot
These rocks, what a hoot to photograph, there's a story cast in stone everywhere you look.
Night camp
Site 4 Cygnus - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM
- Verizon cell phone service - fairly good signal - best on west side of the park
- Verizon EVDO service - faster than many places I've camped
- Go to City of Rocks State Park website
- Locate City of Rocks State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Hobnobbing with Brigham Young
The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.