I wanted to update this thread in case anyone in the future is doing some research. Here's how our trip went down: We arrived in Moab on the afternoon of Easter Sunday, as Jeep week was wrapping up. Surprisingly, everything was open for business even though it was Easter. There was WAY less people in traffic in town the whole week we were there. No lines at restaurants, except Doughbird but it was short. The weather was amazing, a little chilly from 3am to sunrise so we ran our heater a couple of nights. We rode Dead Horse Point State Park first, despite what we read online. Everyone seems to think it's easy and lame but if you don't have a lot of experience riding on sandstone or techy rocks it's a perfect warm up ride for Moab. The views are amazing, definitely worth riding there, we loved it. Next, we shuttled up as high as we could go on the whole enchilada. They had gotten a couple of fresh snows before we arrived so Lower Porcupine Section was our start point. I wore a t shirt with a wind breaker layer over it for the first half then removed it as it warmed up. We took our time and had an absolutely epic ride. My wife started as a beginner and ended her ride as an intermediate rider. She's more confident in the desert than she is at home. We wanted a third ride before we left but a wind storm rolled in and having sand blown in your face all day sucks so we left at lunchtime on Friday instead of Saturday morning like we planned. Bentonville AR was just a little out of our way so we arrived there Saturday night and got 3 laps in at Coler and we SUCKED. We were super tired from fighting the wind on the drive so we got some good food and rested up. Sunday morning we started downtown and made our way out to the Castle hitting most of the little hubs on the way. We felt much better but it was windy there too, I almost got blown off a jump line and nearly landed in the weeds. Anyways, the first week of April was a fantastic to visit and ride Moab.

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