Needles district potential itinerary?

I'll add a Caltopo of this later.  How about starting at Elephant Hill (or Squaw Flat if the road to Elephant Hill looks bad) and doing two separate jaunts.  One of them does a loop into Chesler Park, spends the night there, sees Druid Arch, comes back around through Joint Trail, and gets back after less than 48 hours.  There are five campsites in Chesler, and any of them will do, although CP1 is further away from the other four, which are relatively close.  The two EC campsites are another nearby option.

At Squaw Flat, by the way, there's drinking water and a campground, so after doing this, we just dump out there and spend the night.  Early the next morning, we tank up our water containers (including our stomachs!) and hit the trail again, this time heading more directly south and exploring the Big Spring and Squaw Canyon areas before taking the Salt Creek Canyon and spending another night at SC4.  This is a relatively long day of hiking (about 15 miles or so) but you could cut it back to nearly 10 by just heading more directly to Salt Creek Canyon.  You'll probably want to come back that way anyway.  Get SC4 for two nights and explore the Salt Creek Canyon area the second day without your packs, specifically seeing Angel Arch.  If going all the way to Kirk's Cabin isn't your thing, you can instead take the unimproved road to Paul Bunyan's Potty, Tower Ruin, Fortress Arch and Castle Arch, and get back to SC4.  After spending two nights at SC4, head back to your car and into Moab for a shower, a restaurant and recuperation before driving back home.


Fairly quick and easy, without over-extending too much (although if I really hiked all the way to Cathedral Butte and back, that second leg would be more than 50 miles, without even talking about the side exploration, so that's probably not happening.

It would be easier if I had a good 4-wheel drive, of course, because I'm walking on some umimproved jeep trails for part of the way that I could drive on with the right vehicle.  But still; I prefer my feet anyway. I just won't be able to do all of this, because the second loop is potentially too ambitious.  I marked more than I'd ever be willing to do.  Plus, with water being an issue, even in March or early April, I don't want want to spend more than two nights and three days out.  Maybe not even that long if it's really dry and relatively hot.