HIKING | THE WAVE VERMILION CLIFFS NATIONAL MONUMENT ARIZONA

[@sunkissedmary]

Thank you for the greetings! ❤❤❤ yes they changed it to digital and you have to be within the vicinity of kanab and some areas of page to enter the daily lottery. Best of luck my friend, i hope you get it!

[@bobbafett7407]

We did not get a permit for Coyote Buttes North - The Wave 😭😭 But, we were able to get permits for Coyote Buttes South 😎 , super crazy rock formations all over the place and we had the whole place to ourselves 👍 The drive in and out Cottonwood Cove TH could be tricky, as there is tons of deep sand

[@Scrambler85]

You were lucky to win the privilege to see something so special. 👍

[@sunkissedmary]

100% one of the awesome trails I have hiked. So incredible!

[@Stoic180]

Hello Good Folks. A small point of clarification: 1) The world-wide lottery is done online a full 4 months in advance for a given day. So, winners have time to plan their travel. Today, you could enter for January 2024. Up to 48 Permits can be issued this way for a given day. 2) As of Spring 2022, the "local" lottery, where you had to be in the BLM office in Kanab, Utah to enter a lottery for "the next day" was expanded using "geofencing" technology. Since then, you (or I guess your device) can be anywhere between Kanab and Page, Arizona (i.e., the geofence) to try for a Permit. If your name is drawn your Permit is for 2 days later (instead of the very next day) giving you time to plan and drive to the trailhead. Up to 16 Permits for a given day can be issued this way. I understand it's working well. Hope this (too long) note helps. Peace...

[@bobbafett7407]

Omg!! So happy to see you finally got to visit The Wave!! 🥳🎉 And it looks like you had the place almost to yourself, that’s super cool 😎 I am going to try my luck end of next month at the daily lottery,hopefully I’ll get lucky 🤞 The part that is not cool, is that now you have to apply for the daily lottery 2 days in advance and be in the area to do so 😕 Happy Birthday !! 🎂🎊🎈🥳👍

[@johnmckellar2592]

Wow.!! Looks like a different planet..Lol. That sand looked exhausting..lol Very cool.!!

[@sunkissedmary]

It does! It's worth all the wait ❤

[@rrrrrrtt1]

Thanks for sharing your trip on the wave! Your patience paid off for you! Wow, what a beautiful place!

[@sunkissedmary]

Thank you, I am putting in for another trip. I can't wait!

[@ericmorin2057]

Congrats on getting a permit and thanks for sharing the hike with us.

[@sunkissedmary]

My pleasure! I may be lazy at editing sometimes, but I always love to share experiences!

[@kyklain86]

Patience pays off. When I lived in Page I hiked the Wave when the government went into furlough. Thanks for sharing. Definitely easy to get lost up there, few years ago a couple died cause they got lost.

[@sunkissedmary]

Was that on covid? I heard the parks were left open. I wish I knew it that time I would have visited many places. I could imagine because there are no trails around. I wonder if they have a permit because they could have warned about the trail and could have gotten a map at Kanab whenever they get their permit.

[@kyklain86]

@@sunkissedmary might've been like 5 or so years ago when the government shutdown. So many places are too crowded now, like Horseshoe Bend and even Zion National Park.

[@sunkissedmary]

@@kyklain86 I know, sometimes I get lucky to go to popular places and then there's nobody around. I think we need to promote more on how to take care of these places so people will learn not to trash things. It annoys me whenever I hear a place that closes because it's being trashed.