Trip out West

coolmom42 wrote:

stargate3805jc wrote:
We are looking to head from Lexington,Ky on I-64 to St.Louis stopping to check out the Arch. Good RV park for that area anyone can suggest? Then on to Topeka,Ks to visit friends. Maybe checkout Wichita and Dodge City while still in Ks.Would we see more by taking I-70 to DENVER.I-25 to Buffalo then I-90 across to Mt. Rushmore and Devils Tower. We have also looked at taking I-29 out of Kansas City to Sioux Fallsand then taking I-90 across to Rapid City SD.

I much prefer the I-29 out of KC route. It avoids eastern Colorado & western Kansas, which are very empty, and not in a good way. :D It also avoids the substantial tolls around Denver on the quarter-circle from I-70 to I-25. ($26 for a truck & trailer.)

Take time to stop at the Loess Hills area in Iowa. Very interesting and pretty.

If you want to visit your friends west of KC, take one route out and the other route back.

^^^^^This

Unless you have a burning desire to see Denver, pay excessive tolls for a very short drive, and be in bumper-to-bumper traffic from Denver north to the Fort Collins area (finally breaking out of it near Wellington), then follow the above suggestion. There is much to see and do in Colorado, but from your OP, it appears that this is not the trip to see Colorado and you want to get to the Black Hills area. It's also way out of your way to go the route to Denver and then north, if your destination is the Black Hills.