USA Midwest Roadtrip : Part 3

Saturday 11.08. It was a pretty long drive to Cody. We stayed at the Buffalo Bill Cabins. We went to the Night Rodeo. We enjoyed a night of live music at The Silver Dollar Bar on the sidelines of a wedding party.

Sunday 12.08. Our first day in Yellowstone National Park. The scenery was beautiful and we managed to get to Old Faithful just in time to see her sprout. The crowds were ridiculous. There were just streams of traffic on both sides of the road, backing up for miles if any animals were spotted. It wasn't teeming with game. I think you may have a better experience camping for a few days out of season. We stayed in Bozeman overnight.

Monday 13.08. We enjoyed another long drive to Glacier National Park. We were only able to drive 18 miles in on Going- to - the - Sun road due to wildfires. We then turned back and drove the long way round to West Glacier to overnight in Columbia Falls.Dominos Pizza in the room. Haze from the smoke of the fires was pretty bad in the entire area.

Tuesday 14.08. A big driving day via Missoula and across Wyoming on all the secondary roads. We stopped at the Ninepipe Bird Refuge and the Bison Range. We did see proghorns, red deer, coyotes and a few buffalo.

Wednesday 15.08. We decided to visit the Yellowstone Grizzly Refuge as that seemed the only chance we would have of seeing bears and wolves. We traversed Yellowstone again and headed into the very pretty Grand Teton NP. We spent the night in Jackson Hole at the Anvil Hotel.  What a great town. We got stuck in Moe's BBQ listening to live music and overdoing it on the 2 for 1 Happy Hour wine.We finally made it to the Silver Dollar for dinner followed by more music at the Cowboy Bar.