For Death Valley knowers-and-lovers, I have a question.

What are the Thorndike and Mahogany campgrounds like, specifically for a 2WD
Westy? I know they're up over 8,000 feet at the end of a dirt road, but are
they, like, easily accessible, not too dangerous to get to?

My wife and I visited Death Valley earlier this month, and the campgrounds
on the valley floor weren't quite, uh, wilderness enough. Being enclosed on
both sides by 40 foot "Bounder" motorhomes, each towing Wranglers with bikes
on the  back, and running Honda generators to power the 42" projection tv,
isn't your ideal way to groove on natural beauty.

So I was thinking maybe the National Park Service purposely left the roads
to Thorndike and Mahogany impassible to over-25' vehicles just so that we
Vanagon types, along with tenters, could find some peace out there and gaze
at the stars at night without Ms. Middle America in the Bounder staring at
us as if we're fleas while she fries up the hubby's dinner.

Anybody been there? Anything too rough for a 2WD Vanagon?

What a beautiful place it is! I want to go back.