Grant Teton - Yellowstone - Glacier

Yeh, I do use one of those 10 or so inch ones with the screw cap on the bottom to set out the legs. Works great with the P/S camera. If I remember to take it along when we leave the 5er!

Snowfall has been lean in UT this year, so the snow may melt off and the flowers blooming a little early this year. Some ideas for the central Utah area:

So have you done the Alpine Loop (UT 92) on the back side of Mt. Timpanogos? Narrow, curvy road so no place to tow, but great scenery. There's also a nice road on the back side of Mt. Nebo. These are drives you could make out of Nephi.

Another scenic byway is Utah 150 up past Mirror Lake. Very busy on weekends with traffic out of SLC. Gorgeous scenery though.

If you do go up past Bear Lake on UT 89, do stop at Ricks Spring right along the highway. Interesting cave with a good flow of water coming out of it.

You've got a year to plan, so I'm sure you'll come up with a lot more ideas!

Thanks, everyone, good info. Ken has great ideas and the kind of thing we want to find and do on the way. I saw this squiggly road east of Nephi and heading up to Payson and was wondering about that and hence decided Nephi might be a good place to stop and looks like good rv park there as well. Don't think we will hike Mt. Timp though; even just the online pix scare the heck out of me!

We stayed at Bear Lake a few years ago on the Utah side. Beautiful views of the lake when going up the mountain towards Logan.The campground if I remember correctly has only partial hookups.Check it out.

May I ask which one is the campground in Nephi Utah that you really like.If you could give me the name I would appreciate it .We will be traveling around that area soon so that would help.Thanks

Preliminarily I am looking at Bear Lake / Garden City KOA and Big Mtn CG in Nephi.

Have looked at the state park now........it looks pretty good!

Thanks for input.

Thought was from W Yellowstone to just head up the 287 overnighting at Helana to the 89 to Browning to the 464 to up and around to St. Mary. Don't like the 89 between Browning & St. Mary with the 5er - been there done that, once; prefer the 464.

The goal here was to get between W Yell and St. Mary as a necessity and not a meander and oooh and aaah. But spent some time with jeff9ack thoughts and looked them all over - thanks for that. Maybe there is a place we could stay in the middle there for a couple of nights or, since this is not a great distance for two days, routes we could take that might be a little longer but of more interest.

My friend, Ken (4runnerguy), has good input as well and much appreciated. Over the years I have gotten to know Ken pretty well here on the Forum and know he has good, solid info.

Now looking at getting home from West Glacier and for new things to see. We have not been to Coeur d' Alane for many decades and long before RV'ing and were thinking of going over to there, then down to Clarkston area, down to Caldwell and then head to home just south of Tucson.

Thanks for input; further thoughts are welcome.