US HWY 191 from Vernal, Utah to Moab, Utah

[djjonsey1]

Has anybody driven Us 191 from Vernal to Moab , Utah. We just came from the Grand Tetons to Vernal in a 38 ft GAS Winnebago. It was alot of uphill 7% -8% grade and coming down into Vernal it was 8%-9% with 10 switchbacks !!!! We barely made it up the mountains and coming down was a challenge also.

Now we leaving Vernal going to MOAB, Utah so we are wondering if that road is just as bad.

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[tbutler]

My topo map program (Garmin GPS Topo Maps) shows you starting at about 5500 feet in Vernal. You will run some ups and downs, nothing extreme until you reach Duchesne. Then the profile shows that you begin to climb from 5500 feet at Duchesne to just over 9000 feet and then back down to 5500 feet at the junction of 191 and Hwy 10 in Price. The most difficult part starts at about 55 miles out of Vernal and begins to taper off about 110 miles from Vernal. That will be about 30 miles climbing 3500 feet and 25 miles in the descending the same vertical distance..

To put this in context, your trip on 191 into Vernal from the north took you from 5900 feet to 8460 feet (an elevation change of 2560 feet) in 15 miles and then down to 5700 feet (vertical change of 2760 feet) in the next 15 miles. So you are adding an additional 1000 feet of climb and 800 feet descent but doubling the distance of travel in the climb and almost doubling the distance in the descent.

We have driven the route into Vernal from the Tetons and know what your dealt with on that drive. I haven't driven the route from Vernal to Moab, that part is purely a paper and pencil (computer) exercise.