Blogs from Cody, Wyoming, United States, North America - page 8

We left Custer State Park, taking the Needles Scenic Highway Drive again, this time north. We drove up to Lead where we saw an open pit mine in the middle of the town. We drove through Deadwood which has a restored western town main street. Wild Bill Hickok was killed here in a saloon while playing poker. He is buried in Mt Moriah Cemetery. We then went to Sturgis to see where the motorcycles gather for bike week (we were there about a week after it ended) They were having a tractor parade on the main street - lucky us. We had lunch at Knuckles, a really cool biker’s bar. Then we headed for Wyoming. It has some rolling hills and we saw a couple of oil drilling machines and an open pit coal mine. It ... read more

Not far out of Red Lodge you are quickly on The Beartooth Scenic Highway, which is without doubt very scenic. It reminds David of Trollstigen near Andalsnes in Norway, apart from the Fjords that is. The road’s a bit pock marked at high altitude but that’s a relatively minor quibble. We go over the top, across the plateau, over the Beartooth Pass, through Coulter Pass and Cooke City, and into Yellowstone National Park via the North East Entrance. Not much else to say, except it blows your mind for most of the journey and then there’s our return tour and split right over the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway to Cody. It’s just awesome all the way - providing the weather’s good of course - and it was! At Dead Indian Pass on the Chief Joseph Highway, ... read more

Our journey from the Black Hills to Yellowstone was quite a long one so it required a couple of stop-offs along the way. Our first night in Wyoming was in the small town of Buffalo. We stayed in a nice little cabin in the KOA campground there, had dinner out at the one local restaurant that was open on a Monday, and that was pretty much it. Our next night however, in Cody, Wyoming, was much more exciting… Cody likes to brand itself as a proper little Western town; it’s the former home of Western hero, Buffalo Bill Cody. Now there are museums and tours that you can take to learn about Cody’s past, but we were told that the best ways to truly experience the ‘Wild West’ Cody were to eat at the Irma Hotel ... read more