Route from Yellowstone to Grand Tetons
Hi Everyone--we have a trip scheduled in September stopping at both Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. We will be staying in West Yellowstone and Coulter Bay respectively. All the route planners suggest w...
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X4 driving to the Park - FOR SURE!
As for Hwy 212 over I-90... ehhh. It's a good road, straight, flat, little traffic. And very little scenery. I wouldn't recommend it, but neither would I try to talk you out of it. Depends on what you want.
l'd normally recommend staying on I-90 to Sundance, then making a run to Devils Tower (good place to camp too), then head to Moorcroft and I-90 to Buffalo. From there take Hwy 16 over the Bighorns. (More good camping spots, very scenic, good all-weather highway, not too steep or curvy.) Hwy 16 will take you to Worland, hang a right to Greybull, then a left to Cody and through the Park. Cody is a great little town to explore, and it would be a shame to miss the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. It deserves most of a day by itself.
Tourism will be gasping its last breath in September so traffic will be light. Snow will be possible in late September, but that's true just about anywhere in Wyoming or Montana. It's unlikely that it will last long or amount to much; however, last Oct.1 we had enough snow throughout most of northern Wyoming and South Dakota to kill thousands of cattle and sheep, and it destroyed the three biggest trees in my yard. Still, it was here one day and gone the next.
As for Hwy 212 over I-90... ehhh. It's a good road, straight, flat, little traffic. And very little scenery. I wouldn't recommend it, but neither would I try to talk you out of it. Depends on what you want.
l'd normally recommend staying on I-90 to Sundance, then making a run to Devils Tower (good place to camp too), then head to Moorcroft and I-90 to Buffalo. From there take Hwy 16 over the Bighorns. (More good camping spots, very scenic, good all-weather highway, not too steep or curvy.) Hwy 16 will take you to Worland, hang a right to Greybull, then a left to Cody and through the Park. Cody is a great little town to explore, and it would be a shame to miss the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. It deserves most of a day by itself.
Tourism will be gasping its last breath in September so traffic will be light. Snow will be possible in late September, but that's true just about anywhere in Wyoming or Montana. It's unlikely that it will last long or amount to much; however, last Oct.1 we had enough snow throughout most of northern Wyoming and South Dakota to kill thousands of cattle and sheep, and it destroyed the three biggest trees in my yard. Still, it was here one day and gone the next.
