From a Castle to a Tent - Next Stop Sacramento Pass BLM Campground

I forgot to post a picture of the master suite in the castle, so here it is.  The room was huge and had a really nice bed, TV and sitting area.

Ari fills up our water tanks before we hit the road to our next stop.

Our next stop is the Sacramento Pass BLM horse campground.

https://www.blm.gov/visit/sacramento-pass-recreation-area

This is free camping because it is BLM land.  Technically, BLM land belongs to everybody.  Sites are on a first come, first served basis.

There are two campsites there - one for everybody and one for equestrians.  You drive through and past the non-equestrian site to get to the one for equestrians.  We got there and there was only one campsite left.  All the other campsites were being used by non-equestrians.  

The local Back Country Horseman members have built up this campsite.

There is a really nice corral built by the BCHA.  We put both horses in there for the night and they were pretty happy.  This is a pretty primitive campsite.  There is no water.  There are pit toilets.  You are expected to take the garbage with you and drop it at the trash cans at the first campsite.

We rode in the evening after we got our tent and kitchen set up and then again in the morning.  The trails are not well marked and we kept getting lost off the trail because any time there was a space between the brush we thought it was a trail.  It made for a really frustrating ride.  We would get off the trail, hit a dead end and then have to backtrack to find the trail again.  Adding to the frustration, Lennox has reverted to his Bulldozer ways - where he just wants to move out.  I don't know if it is because the trails were basically wide open or because he was jacked up from spending hours in the trailer.

Here we are in Nevada in the middle of June and temperatures have been in the low 60s.  It was even colder at night.  But the stars, oh my!  The night sky at this campsite is gorgeous.

No internet or cell service at all...I had to wait  until we got to our next stop to post this update.  Tonight we are at the Rose Ranch in Marysville, UT.  More on that tomorrow....