Saturday 23rd September 2023
The weather turned cold the last few days at Yellowstone and we saw snow on the tops of the mountains.
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| Clouds so low you can't see the mountain today |
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| Snow |
While Yellowstone National Park was amazing we were glad to be leaving the rock tumbling neighbors and make our way further west. We would have liked to have traveled into the north of the State to Glacier National Park but with it being late in the season the rv parks in that area were closing. Another place to add to the list for the future. So instead we drove 200 miles west to another private park. When making plans for this section of the route I was having trouble finding a half decent park, this was the best I could find within our driving distance.
The park was closing for the season the day after we left and for most of our stay we were the only ones there. I'm glad we were as the sites were almost touching each other and there was only one men's and one ladies bathroom so I can imagine there being a line in the peak season. If I had known how remote this park was I would have only booked one week.
It was nestled in a valley surrounded by pines trees next to a creek. It was very pretty in an unkept way, the owners either liked the wild look or were not into landscaping. There were prickly nettle plants all around the sites.
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| The Continental Divide |
The Continental Divide extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain into the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and Hudson Bay.
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| On the horizon we could see a tower. |
The old Anaconda Copper Company smelter stack, completed in 1919, is one of the tallest free-standing brick structures in the world at 585 feet.
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| Tepees and wagon glamping |
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| There were "lodges" too, this was the prettiest, others were little more than a garden shed with beds. $110 to $130 a night is expensive when you do not have a bathroom or cooking facilities. |
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