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Oregon Trail Ruts
Guersney, WY, April 2025 Guernsey has some of the best trail ruts I have seen so far. The wheels created about 3-foot-high ridges in the rock. I feel sorry for the animals that had to pull the wagons. The area had many signs about what was like and history of traveling west. I thought you…
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Greenway St. Vrain Trail
Longmont, CO, April 2025 The St. Vrain river passes through Longmont, CO, and there is a bike trail that runs along part of the river (and tributaries). When completed, the trail should run from Greenway to St. Vrain State Park, but it stops about 3 miles short. From reading the sign, we learned that the…
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Estes Park, CO, April 2025 Rocky Mountain National Park is about 35 miles west of Longmont, CO. (Longmont is about 40 miles north of Denver.) Due to the winding roads, the drive to the park takes about an hour from Longmont. Some of the views on the drive were stunning. To get to the eastern…
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Butterfield Hiking Trail
Cedar Bluff State Park, KS, April 2025 The trail was in the south are of the reservoir and trailhead was right next to the Park Office on the other side of Pa’s Pond which is a youth and disabled stocked fishing pond. The trail has multiple stopping points with details about the reservoir, plants, and…
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Cancel Stamp Frenzy – Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, April 2025 One of my best purchases has been the Collector’s Edition Passport to the National Parks book. I collect cancel stamps from each National Park, National Forest, National Monument, etc that we visit. Each stamp has the date and park visited. John has to deal with my dragging him…
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Campfires & Wind
Cedar Bluff State Park, Kansas, April 2025 Home of the never-ending wind… Cedar Bluff is a beautiful park that is dry and windy. The ground has just started to turn green, and the reservoir water level is low. Having a campfire required waiting for a less windy (still windy though) day. Well at least for…
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Agave Ridge Nature Trail
Cedar Bluff State Park, KS, April 2025 Agave Ridge Nature Trail has a 1 mile loop and a longer 5.4 mile loop that includes the 1 mile loop. (FYI, the pamphlet pdfs will probably try to download.) Here is a pdf version of the pamphlet for the hiking trail. While looking for that, I found…
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Salina Campground to Cedar Bluff State Park, KS – Park Information, Pictures and Driving Directions
Cedar Bluff State Park, KS, April 2025 Cedar Bluff State Park, KS is located on the prairie. The one learning is that it is rare not to have a windy day. I was looking forward to cooking hot dogs (the big ones from Sams Club) over the campfire. Unfortunately, we only had 1 day that…
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Acting like kids again!
Salina Campground, KS, April 2025 Everyone who knows me has experienced my uncontrollable urge to goof around on playground equipment and just being silly. The campground had a large number entertainment from workout equipment to photo stand in boards, swing set and large chairs. I hope you enjoy seeing our antics. Since we are in…
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Tornado Selfies Are Trending
Salina Campground, KS, April 2025 Around 10 pm on Tuesday, April 1st, our phones went nuts with a tornado warning. I would have expected a tornado watch first, but no, just the warning. Shortly afterwards, it started to pour rain from the sky with pea sized hail. It was windy, but not tornado windy. The…