riverman wrote:

The lowest camps in Grand Gulch are a day hike in, maybe 4 miles up. I never
did the overnight up to the clusters of hut, as I lived in Flag and we had
Anasazi riuns all over, so the hot dry hike up GG never appealed to me.

It's also possible to reach the Grand Gulch hiking downhill from a road.

The Perched Meander camp is one of my favorites, too! I like that
you can go on this hiking journey and end up back where you started
without having to retrace.

That and the scenic beauty are what made it so wonderful for us.

The canyon above Grand is Slickhorn....did you ever hike up to the
pools there? Or the very best pool on the river, at John's canyon?

Yes, we really liked the Slickhorn hike and enjoyed swimming/wading
in the pools. So I guess we made the right camping decisions.
We did not visit John's Canyon, if I recall correctly.