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magnusfide
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Feb 02, 2018

Our Next Trip: Wyoming Roaming

We like to do themed trips and this one we're calling Wyoming Roaming.

We'll cruise through Wyoming and finally get to spend some time at the Longmire Days and the Petrified Forest in Buffalo.

Still deciding our final itinerary but will definitely go to Cody to see the natural history museum. We'll stop in at the homesteaders' museum in Powell and swing by the Carmelite Monks to see if we can load up on Herself's favorite teas. They have great coffee too.

Wyoming's a big state but we'll see about allowing a week for some unplanned roaming too.

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  • Go to Heart Mountain Internment Center at Ralston, a short drive NE of Cody. A sobering look at wartime paranoia. Very well done museum. Also the Brinton Art Museum near Story, between Buffalo and Sheridan,is definitely worth a stop.
  • coolmom42 wrote:
    Take time to go through Thermopolis. There is a neat county museum, and the Hot Springs State Park with its huge springs, bath house, and buffalo herd.


    There is also a really interesting Dinosaur Museum.
  • Take time to go through Thermopolis. There is a neat county museum, and the Hot Springs State Park with its huge springs, bath house, and buffalo herd.
  • Plan to have lunch at the Irma Hotel in Cody. Just the bar is worth the trip. IRMA Hotel
    Also if you have time Hwy14 and then 14A out of Ranchchester,Wy is a wonderful scenic trip if you don't have a big rig. Stop and visit the Bighorn Medicine Wheel on your way to Cody. MEDICINEWHEEL

    PM me if you need further info or suggestions.
  • I've jotted those down and we'll see about adding in some of those stops. Thanks!
  • Wyoming has a lot to offer.

    If you're in the southeast corner, you may want to consider a visit to the State Museum in Cheyenne near the capitol building. Lots of information on the history of Wyoming on display.

    Head over to Laramie and there's the Territorial Prison that's also an interestng tour. And from Laramie, take the Snowy Range Road west through the funky little town of Centennial, and up and over the Snowy Range and the pass at the top. Some great USFS camping in that area. Up top at Snowy Range Pass is the Sugarloaf CG, which has the best vistas you could want. And some wonderful hikes and fishing in that area as well.

    Then drop down over the west side to Saratoga and take in the hot springs there. It was devastated by a flood several years back, but they rebuilt and it's come back strong. Definitely worth the time to go there and relax.