Category: Travel
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Buckhorn Draw
We’re camping at the San Rafael Bridge BLM Campground in Buckhorn Draw, in the northern part of the San Rafael Swell. The draw starts near the Wedge Overlook and drops down through a canyon toward the south. The scenery in the Draw is fantastic. It reminds us of the area around Capitol Reef National Park.…
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Old Bones and Crowded Overlooks
Today’s adventure started with a trip to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in the Jurrasic National Monument. The quarry is the site of the densest collection of Jurrasic dinosaur bones ever found. Fossils and replicas are on display in the visitors center and the dig site. There were only a handful of visitors when we were…
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The Scenic Beauty of Nine-Mile Canyon
Here you go: 😂 We heard that Nine-Mile canyon was worth the drive. It was roughly on the route from Dinosaur National Monument down to Huntington, so we decided to check out the canyon on our way south and west. It’s notable for the thousand-year-old petroglyphs and rock art left by the Fremont and Ute…
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Dinosaur National Monument
After driving across Thunder Basin we headed south and spent a night in one of the small county parks on the Alcova Reservoir south of Casper. The parks are primitive – vault toilets, no water – but decent enough. Some of the sites are right on the reservoir. There’s not much shelter or shade, so…
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Black Hills, Thunder Basin
We’re back on the road, heading to Utah. Our route this time is via the Black Hills and Casper WY. We haven’t camped in the Hills in a long time – preferring to stay in the Badlands instead – so an overnight in Custer State Park sounded like a plan. It’s an expensive plan though.…
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Wrapping up the Bayou Tour
We focused on bayous and wildlife refuges on this trip. The woods and hills in the south are nice, but not so different than the woods and hills a few miles from my house, so we figure that if we want to camp in the woods we can do that without driving a thousand miles.…
Michael Janke 