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michigansandzil
Dec 09, 2015Explorer
Bbrinks1 wrote:
Fair comment. I actually have 14 nights planned for the total trip. Figured at least 3 days of pure driving. Will have to decide what's worth packing in. We do want some down time so we certainly won't see it all. Again, the ideas are appreciated.
We plan to go from Michigan to Yellowstone in 2017. For my family, it's 3 days there and 3 days back, for a total of 6 days driving. That's if we do a minimum of 650 miles/day. For us, that takes 12 hours/day X3 days, we'll be toast by the time we arrive I'm sure. We plan to take 16 days total, so 10 for sight seeing. We'll do Craters of the Moon for one day, Tetons for two or three days and Yellowstone for the remaining days. We had originally planned to do Mt Rushmore/Badlands/Custer St park in the same trip, but we were left with only 1 week of vacation time this year and we're doing South Dakota now, instead of next year with Yellowstone. PLus, I tend to over book and tire everyone out quickly, so I'm trying to slow it down to add in a day or two to relax.
You'll have to update with your route and what worked for you guys.
Good luck.
It will be fun however you choose to do it.
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