Backpacking trip

[Bear Chow]

I thought about putting this in trail runs, and if there is any interest you are all welcome to participate.

My son Jared and I would like to do some two-three day hikes. We have been doing regular day hikes but now it's time to step it up a bit. I had intended to stay local, but then I got a brainstorm of an idea. What about sleeping under the natural bridge arch. We could park at the creek and backpack to the arch. As there are three water crossings I think we will wait till spring.

From memory, I would say it is less than a four mile hike. Last time I was down there, it was covered in trash. We could do a nice clean up of the area haul some trashbags out, staging them at the end of the bridge for another good summaritan to toss into their truck. If it is only 2-3 bags we could haul it out ourselves.

Does anyone know if there is any camping restrictions? Are we allowed to light a small fire? Is their a specific ranger station that would need to be contacted?

On a nice spring day we may even get a few visitors under there.