Clover Creek Inn
Travel Blogs from Montpelier
Yellowstone and the Tetons
This was the last week the roads through Yellowstone and Teton National Parks were open so we grabbed at the chance. The sky was clear and cloudless as we drove up the Gallatin Canyon from Bozeman, and weather reports promised it would stay that way.
They were right. The day was gorgeous.
We'd never been in the parks in the snow and while …
Into Idaho!
... first sighting of the
White-faced Ibis, now we can list all three ibis. Also of interest were
some long billed curlews.
Grays Lake isn't so much a lake as it
is a marshland located at 6400' and covering some 18,500 acres with a
proposal to increase the refuge to 32,800 acres. What surface water
that is here is drawn down for irrigation during the summer months.
The lake was named after one John Gray, a mountain man who came into
the area in 1818 and may ...
First night of camping
... We went through Wellsville, Clearwater, Clearfield and Providence....
Interesting that all along the highways there are always food signs.. Lots of food places in the US! Stopped at a grassy rest area where people were breaking their journey by playing frisbee. Saturday is apparently a big day for yard sales, so all along the way in the smaller towns (and also in Salt Lake suburbs) people had all their stuff for sale out on the ...
Oregon Trail Center
... a trails and rails museum, and a gift shop. The center is placed right on the Oregon trail, so one can see the landscape of what pioneers traveled on. The trails were what most people traveled on when moving westward. People gathered their families and possessions, bought a wagon and horses, and then ...
Milk Shakes and Hot Tubs
... it as we sat transfixed by the TVs, it had been a while since we’d actually seen one so it was a welcomed distraction.
When we cycled back to the campsite we played a round of mini-golf, which Jon won. Then we rented a movie from the store for only $3.50 a bargain AND it was Tangled a Disney film I had wanted to see! We hastened back to our Deluxe site and jumped in the hot tub with a couple of beers – it was ...