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Southeast Yellowstone Day 41: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This is the first of the three days of Yellowstone pictures that have not been posted. This was two days before the Sunday that we left the park. In the morning, we got up early to see the wolves. (We posted these pictures and videos here.) Some of us…
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Can I Burro a Bag of Salad?
Custer State Park, SD, July 2025 The Burros are descendants of the ones used to haul visitors up to the top of Black Elk Peak before the tours were discontinued in the 1930s. They are not native to the Black Hills of South Dakota. We had driven by the place the Burros hung out a…
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Badlands National Park
Interior, SD, July 2025 Kate put together a plan to do everything within about 100 miles, except John ruined her plan by pointing out that her route bypassed most of the Badlands National Park. The revised plan skipped the extra grasslands visitor center, and passed through the badlands. This plan involved going to the Minuteman…
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Gordon Stockade & Gold Panning
Custer State Park, SD, July 2025 We spent the morning completing chores around the trailer, making calls, etc. In the afternoon, we went gold rushing. The park naturalists offer a wide variety of free programs that anyone can attend – animals talks, nature walks, archery, gold panning, etc. The 2 pm event at the Gordon…
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Needles Highway and Custer
Custer State Park & Custer City, SD, July 2025 Today started out with John inspecting the roof for potential tree damage. John wanted to do this before the upcoming rainfall since a small portion of the roof was scraped by trees when we were backing into the site. Fortunately, the roof looked good and did…
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Jewel Cave National Monument & Canyon Hike
Jewel Cave National Monument, SD, July 2025 There are 3 national monuments within an hour of Custer State Park. The monuments are Jewel Cave National Monument, Wind Cave National Monument and Mount Rushmore National Monument. Jewel Cave has a .25 mile, 3.5 mile, and 5.5 mile hike near it. The .25 miles hike starts and…
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Mountain Meadow Wool Mill
Buffalo, WY, July 2025 Last time we were in Buffalo, Wyoming, I wanted to visit the Mountain Meadow Wool Mill. Unfortunately, we were not able to visit because we were only in town for 5 nights and we didn’t have time. So, I had drag John to the mill along with the other errands of…
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Bighorn National Forest (North)
Burgess Junction, WY, July 2025 We stayed at Garryowen, MT because Kate wanted to drive the Northern Route through Bighorn National Forest on Route 14. Route 14 through the forest is almost 60 miles south of Garryowen and about 35 miles long. In total, it is about 2 hours of driving, each way, due to…
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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 So we are staying in the middle of nowhere, Montana near a (small? tiny? puny?) private town name Garryowen. Wikipedia and the 2010 Census claim that the population is 2. The building in town is a combination of the city hall, museum, and convenience store. We have not been there, so…
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Relaxing during the Heat Wave
7th Ranch RV Camp, MT, July 2025 When we were Yellowstone, the hottest day was maybe 80 F and that was probably only 1 day. Most nights were in the 30s or less. We did have a few in the 40s. Ever since then, the temperature has been a minimum of 80s during the day…