Also known as Tuweep. (I think the general are is Tuweep, the overlook is Toroweap, both variations on the same Paiute word.) It's in the Arizona Strip on the northern rim of the western Grand Canyon, south of Fredonia. I'm intrigued by the place, and wouldn't mind visiting. It's 3,000' down to the river, and you can see where a lava flow dammed up the river, then the dam got eroded away.
It's park service land. Apparently some folk do manage the 70-mile dirt road in sedans at times, though it's discouraged. The run supposedly takes 3 to 4 hours one way from Fredonia, AZ, which is 3 hours from Vegas, so it might make more sense to do it as an overnight, or even two, basing from Fredonia or St. George. There's a campground at the site with picnic tables and composting toilets, but there's no water - we'd have to bring our own; not exactly KOA. If we did the run as a group, (How many vehicles is a group?), there's a special use permit required that we'd have to submit at least a month in advance, with a fee of $250 that we'd have to divide up.
The Park Service has a website about it here, with a brochure to download:
https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/tuweep.htm This site has a bunch of pretty pictures from somebody who went in 2015 from St. George. Their Desert Roads and Trails Society did this as a fun run in January of 2015, and their description doesn't mention paying a Special Use fee - I guess I'd need to get clarification from the Park Service folk:
http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archiv ... UjfJ7sUH4g
And this site has some more information, though it's about flying into the airstrip there:
http://www.swaviator.com/html/issueMA02/Tuweep3402.html Has anybody been here? Would anybody be interested in going? If there's interest, I can try to contact the St. George club and see what their fee situation was, and contact the Park Service and get their take on it.
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