Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone, Cheyenne
Planning a trip to these three areas next year late Aug or early Sept. Looking to get ideas of things to do other than the obvious. Tentative plan is to leave central Texas and go to Rushmore, the...
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For Cheyenne, the first thing that obviously comes to mind is Cheyenne Frontier Days...but it won't be going on during the time you'll be traveling through. It's in late July. So...what else is there to see and do in Cheyenne.
Other sights that come to mind are the Wyoming State Museum, which details the history of the entire state, and the Wyoming Transportation Museum, with historical information on the importance of the railroads to the state of Wyoming.
If you're more adventurous, there's Curt Gowdy State Park (a great place to stay, by the way), between Cheyenne and Laramie, and Veedauwoo (a large group of rock outcroppings) in the same area.
Since you're planning on doing the Black Hills and Yellowstone prior, you may be overloaded on scenery...or not. If not, then a drive over to Laramie (stop by the Territorial Prison Museum) and then continuing on to Snowy Range Road and going up and over Snowy Range Pass, is highly recommended. A nice day trip, there's wonderful vistas in the Snowy Range, with a small fraction of the tourists you'll encounter elsewhere. It's sort of like Rocky Mountain National Park with about 1% of the tourists there. Some great hikes up there, and you could continue over to Saratoga WY to the hot springs, and take a soak there. Getting back on I-80 north of Saratoga, and heading back to Cheyenne, you'd make a loop around that would be a full day for sure.
H E R E is a more complete list of things to see and do in the Cheyenne WY area. It's a lot more the CFD.
Other sights that come to mind are the Wyoming State Museum, which details the history of the entire state, and the Wyoming Transportation Museum, with historical information on the importance of the railroads to the state of Wyoming.
If you're more adventurous, there's Curt Gowdy State Park (a great place to stay, by the way), between Cheyenne and Laramie, and Veedauwoo (a large group of rock outcroppings) in the same area.
Since you're planning on doing the Black Hills and Yellowstone prior, you may be overloaded on scenery...or not. If not, then a drive over to Laramie (stop by the Territorial Prison Museum) and then continuing on to Snowy Range Road and going up and over Snowy Range Pass, is highly recommended. A nice day trip, there's wonderful vistas in the Snowy Range, with a small fraction of the tourists you'll encounter elsewhere. It's sort of like Rocky Mountain National Park with about 1% of the tourists there. Some great hikes up there, and you could continue over to Saratoga WY to the hot springs, and take a soak there. Getting back on I-80 north of Saratoga, and heading back to Cheyenne, you'd make a loop around that would be a full day for sure.
H E R E is a more complete list of things to see and do in the Cheyenne WY area. It's a lot more the CFD.
