Road Trip:Yellowstone, Badlands,Black Hills

[1927]

Having spent most of my vacations stateside in either California or NY, me and Mrs27 fabcy doing something a bit different.

Inspired by the Yellowstone series we'd really like to head up that way, and as its relatively not far away take it The Badlands, Deadwood, Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse etc.

Anybody done this, not even sure of the best place to fly to. There's no rush as I'd really like to leave it a few years so little27 will actually know what's happening!!

 

[Spion]

I once flew into Denver, then headed over the Rockies to Utah where we were based in Moab for a while and explored Arches and Zion NPs. Then we drove up through Utah to Wyoming and Grand Teton and Yellowstone. We did multi-day backpakcing staying in wilderness campsites in those two places. Then we drove back south through Wyoming and stayed in a lovely little state park in northern Colorado with a lovely river pool you could fish and swim in (somewhere near Fort Collins) before heading back to Denver to fly out. A really superb trip

It took us 3 weeks. If I had time I woulda liked to get further north into Montana and the NPs there

 

[Gavin Bl]

yeah, we did - Denver-Rushmore-Devils Tower-Yellowstone-Idaho-Utah and Red Rock country, before going back to Denver over the Continental Divide.

Its alot of driving - 3838 miles IIRC! Took about 2 weeks - generally roads are quiet though. Its over 10 years ago now....but as I recall

Yellowstone was good, strange, but not jaw-dropping in the way some stuff in the states is.

Rushmore was really great -you're only there for about an hour tho,

Black Hills is v nice - lots of seriously large widlife, bison and so on

Red Rock Country is outstanding - Arches NP, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Monumnent Valley etc..

Driving over the rockies is really good - I was just on the way back though, a few days seeing the sights would have been good.

Lots of cheap accomodation you just pull up at, except Yellowstone, where its very controlled, either v. expensive hotels, or still fairly expensive cabins (with no telly!) - which was like a pricey POW camp. Might all be different now though.

I'd agree with Spion, more time in Montana would have been good.

 

[D]

I had a great audition today for a theater in Montana. Sadly, I haven't heard from them (despite their tremendous enthusiasm at the time), but I would LOVE to spend a few months in Missoula.



I've never been to that part of the country.