Wyoming camping trip.

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A buddy of mine and me went on a camping trip to Wyoming 2 weeks ago. Drove all the way out and back. Left at 8:00 Sunday and arrived in Kurt Goudy State Park at 3:00 Monday. Had 2 hour rest in rest area and meals only.
Kurt Goudy State Park is nice, no trees, 2 medium sized lakes in mountains northwest of Cheyenne. Pay showers, free sunscreen, nice park employees. Be ready for extremely high winds. 66 MPH wind hit my tent and bent some poles. Had to sleep in truck rest of the way. Very nice rock formations. Also Laramie is close by with a geology museum at university.
Went through Jeffrey City. Pottery place there in old gas station. Went to Thermopolis where there is a good rock shop beside Mcdonalds. Then through the town Shashoni and went to Tamarask Campground at Boyson State Park. Very nice campground on big lake. Camp right an shore. No showers and the usual pit toilets.
Then North to Cody and camped at private campground in town. Cody museum was good and very big.$19 for 2 days. Lots of places to eat.
Went from there to Devils Tower National Monument. This is the same tower as seen on the movie Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. No aliens were seen, but well worth going to. Then went to Mt Rushmore to see the heads. $10 to park, no entry fee.
We headed for home going through Badlands, had lunch at Al's Oasis in Oacoma, SD. Then to Sioux Falls SD. where we hit HWY 29 going south and stayed at Lewis and Clark State Park. Then home, staying at one park in Kentucky (Land between the Lakes.)on the way.
 
Was the museum in Cody the Firearms Museum/Center of the West? I follow the curator on IG and watched the buildup of the place. Really cool

I love Wyoming. Want to go back...can’t believe it’s been two years since I was there last


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Didn't stop at wall??

Good donuts, veterans get a free coffee and donut.

Pie is good too.
 
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11B CIB said:
Was the museum in Cody the Firearms Museum/Center of the West? I follow the curator on IG and watched the buildup of the place. Really cool

I love Wyoming. Want to go back...can’t believe it’s been two years since I was there last


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I only had a film camera, which I borrowed.
 
11B CIB said:
Was the museum in Cody the Firearms Museum/Center of the West? I follow the curator on IG and watched the buildup of the place. Really cool

I love Wyoming. Want to go back...can’t believe it’s been two years since I was there last


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The firearms museum was great. It'll take a day to go through there if you read everyone.
 
bigfelipe said:
Did you stop by the restaurant/shop by the entrance to Devil's Tower? When I was there they had an outdoor showing of Close Encounters with the tower in the background...

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No we didn't, but I tell you it is one cool place. From others who had been there they said you can walk to the top. We were to old to make trip.
 
Mr. Bill said:
No we didn't, but I tell you it is one cool place. From others who had been there they said you can walk to the top. We were to old to make trip.
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No way to walk up that I'm aware of. I walked the trail around it and climbed the boulder field to the legal line. You have to have a climbing permit to go any higher.
 
There's been a 'ban' on climbing, but people still do it. I understand that it's a very easy, non-technical climb.

Sounds like a great trip!
 
I hope you went to see the Crazy Horse monument when you went to Mt Rushmore. I thought it was much more impressive than Rushmore.
 
Diablos said:
If they'd ever finish it
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No shite... They're making money hand over fist and not making much progress.

I thought it was a rip-off. $20 a person basically to access a gift shop with a half mile away view of the "monument"...



This shot from the deck outside the gift shop is about as close as admission gets ... Unless you pony up another $75+ per to do private tour...
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bigfelipe said:
No shite... They're making money hand over fist and not making much progress.

I thought it was a rip-off. $20 a person basically to access a gift shop with a half mile away view of the "monument"...



This shot from the deck outside the gift shop is about as close as admission gets ... Unless you pony up another $75+ per to do private tour...
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I went during the volksmarch, only charge you a few canned goods to get in and you hike up.
 
Sounds like a great trip. I'm leaving for Wyoming on Saturday for an antelope hunt. Hope we make as good time on the way out as you did.
 
Jerrys donut shop in rapid

Kings pasties (kinda like a hot pocket but way better), 2 for $9 at the sinclair (iirc) gas station in rapid
 
Mr. Bill said:
If you go through St.Louis try to hit it at late night. During daytime it's a parking lot.
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Take 70, 64 is under construction, and it sucks during rush hour, which goes around 7-9am and 3-6pm unless there's a game, then all bets are off depending on what time the game is at.
 
Mr. Bill said:
If you go through St.Louis try to hit it at late night. During daytime it's a parking lot.
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BurnedOutGeek said:
Take 70, 64 is under construction, and it sucks during rush hour, which goes around 7-9am and 3-6pm unless there's a game, then all bets are off depending on what time the game is at.
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Planning on hitting STL around 9pm Saturday.
 
Mr. Bill said:
We talked to a women in visitors center in Landon who said she walked to top. Don't know when.
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She must have been confused. Maybe she walks to the top of the trail at the base of the mountain. I walked all the way around the thing. It's a giant cylinder. I didn't see any fire escape going up the side. But the sun was setting and we had been drinking so maybe I missed something...
 
bigfelipe said:
No shite... They're making money hand over fist and not making much progress.

I thought it was a rip-off. $20 a person basically to access a gift shop with a half mile away view of the "monument"...



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When we were camping night before going to Mt. Rushmore a fellow camper told us it was a rip off, so we didn't go. Go through Deadwood if you want to see some rip offs too. It's really been commercialized.
 
Mr. Bill said:
When we were camping night before going to Mt. Rushmore a fellow camper told us it was a rip off, so we didn't go. Go through Deadwood if you want to see some rip offs too. It's really been commercialized.
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I liked Adams house up there, and the cemetery is pretty cool to walk through.

Main street is a waste of time, complete tourist trap.

The mining museum up in lead wasn't bad, in if you're here in july you can head up to the old homesteak mine that has been made into a reasearch lab.

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Mr. Bill said:
When we were camping night before going to Mt. Rushmore a fellow camper told us it was a rip off, so we didn't go. Go through Deadwood if you want to see some rip offs too. It's really been commercialized.
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Agreed. Deadwood was shite. A few interesting buildings and stories around a tourist trap built on top of where the town used to be... and crap casinos...
 
We went 400 feet down in Jewel Cave National Monument outside of Custer, SD. That was pretty cool.
 
Diablos said:
I liked Adams house up there, and the cemetery is pretty cool to walk through.

Main street is a waste of time, complete tourist trap.

The mining museum up in lead wasn't bad, in if you're here in july you can head up to the old homesteak mine that has been made into a reasearch lab.

https://sanfordlab.org/neutrinoday
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Should have gone to Lead. Like to have seen the mine.
 
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