Buckskin Mountain State Park (Saturday, March 21st, 2020)

Today's outing was to Buckskin Mountain State Park, on the Parker, AZ Strip.  I have to start out by saying that the park got both a pass and a fail from us when it comes to Covid-19.  The pass was that they were disinfecting all of their restrooms while we were there, and had the doors propped open so you didn't have to touch them after washing your hands, but the fail was the volunteer ranger at the entry gate.  He walked right up to our car window, grabbed Steve's ID and pass out of his hand, and took them inside to make sure they were valid.....WHAT?  Since we are practicing social distancing to an extreme, we had to disinfect everything after he handed them back.  We're not sure what he was thinking, but in our eyes, that was a definite fail.

Anyway!  After entering, we headed to the hiking trail, which starts climbing immediately in the park.

Kind of a creepy looking guy. He was at least 1.5 inches long!

All of the trails started out together, but once we crossed the highway, they split up in different directions, so we had a choice of here to hike.  We chose the orange trail which was only about 1.5 mile loop.

As you can see, we had the trail entirely to ourselves, which was an unexpected treat.

We had the gorgeous views all to ourselves as well.

It felt so good to get some fresh air and exercise today!  Again another shout-out to the rangers doing such a great job cleaning and disinfecting the restrooms!