Category: 2024 Fall Trip
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2024 Fall Trip Recap
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08/29/2024 – 10/01/2024 # Date Campsite City State Type 1 08/29/2024 Olson Park & Campground Worthington MN RV Campground 2 08/30/2024 – 08/31/2024 Cedar Shores Lodge & Resort Park Rapids MN RV Park 3 09/01/2024 Spearfish KOA Spearfish SD KOA 4 09/02/2024 Deer Park RV Park & Campground Buffalo WY RV Park 5 09/03/2024 –…
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Trip Home
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We packed up Monday morning to leave Ft. Collins with the intention of taking an off-the-usual-I-80 route home through Hastings, NE. We stopped short of Hastings because there was a gusty north wind that made driving our high-profile van a chore. Southwest Nebraska is hilly, and then very flat as you reach the high plains.…
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Ft. Collins Fun
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Fort Collins has a fantastic Farmers Market on Saturday through the summer. Dad and I bought some goodies, including some Bavarian style pretzels from a vendor who explained his quest to make “authentic” pretzels like he enjoyed in Germany. We then dropped off some garden produce and Mitziās Flowers from the market to my brotherās…
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Surprise Visit to Ft. Collins
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We left the Wasatch Range in Utah with the plan to see how far we would get into Wyoming. Echo Canyon is where I-84 branches off of I-80 to head west and north of Salt Lake City. There are beautiful red sandstone rock formations here. Into Wyoming between Evanston and Green River there are beautiful…
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Utah Olympic Park
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The Alf Engen Ski Museum (free admission) is dedicated to the history of skiing in Utah and the 2002 Winter Olympics. The story goes something like this: The Army came to look after the Mormons, and their officer sent the bored men into the mountains to search for silver and gold. They found some, and…
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Wasatch Mountain State Park
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We were able to get a walk-up campsite at Wasatch Mountain State Park for a couple of nights up in the mountains east of Salt Lake City. The weekend was all reserved, so we will make the most of our time here. I really want to see Utah Olympic Park, and will do that tomorrow.…
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Lava Hot Springs
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There is a trail up the mountain behind the town that looked like part of it went up to the pretty fall foliage and part of it went up to a letter āLā on the hillside. We ended up hiking for about 3.5 miles, but did not make it up more than half-way to the…
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BASE Jumping off the Perrine Bridge
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After I was done with laundry, it was time for the KOA to kick us out, so we drove to the visitor center in Twin Falls. We happened to time our arrival with a half-dozen people in need of an adrenaline rush. These BASE jumpers carried their parachutes to the middle of the Perrine Bridge,…
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Ritter Island and Hagerman Fossils
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Continuing on with our one day tour of Thousand Springs State Park, we stopped at Ritter Island which is the best place to see several springs forming waterfalls out of the canyon walls. We followed a curvy, narrow but paved road down to the island in the Snake River. There is a small parking lot…
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Beautiful Box Canyon
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In the name of chasing waterfalls, we decided to see some of Thousand Springs State Park. It has six separate parks or units, and I had four of them on our list. This post will be the first two, then the second post for today will be the other two. We drove through rural roads…