Originally Posted by
arindam
Folks:
I just narrated here what I was told by the BLM (at the Bigwater Visitor Center). The road in question is specifically BLM 431 (no off-roading, no driving in the wash, nothing of that sort). When I was there, Cottonwood Cyn. was in great shape and so was BLM 431. But I was clearly told that if I were caught on BLM 431, I could be charged with trespassing on federal land. And no, I wasn't being a jerk with them, I was polite all the way.
Whether it makes sense to you or not, I can't argue about that; I just gave you information (as I was given) which could be useful to some future visitors who might want to take BLM 431 to visit the hoodoos and Sidestep Canyon.
Re Kane County winning a lawsuit or not, I am not a local and so I don't know the details, but that's what I was told by a tourist I met at a hotel in Kanab. But in any case, this has nothing to do with the status of BLM 431. If you read my post carefully, you will see that I prefaced the sentence with "may be", which means that it's my inference (inferences are not necessarily facts) that BLM has stepped up its enforcement effort.
This is the last I am going to say anything about this issue.
Arindam