Trip planning input / help request
We're looking at planning a big trip for this coming summer and I was hoping to solicit some feedback about campgrounds or other things to see or do. We've done some long trips before - from TN to Ft...
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Ranger431 wrote:
Appreciate all the feedback, and I think there's a lot of wisdom in these posts - thank you. Unfortunately, its too bad I have limited vacation ;)
Think I'll look at paring down the trip down a bit and focus on Yellowstone and GT this year, maybe follow up with separate trips the the GC and 4 surrounding areas & Rushmore / Custer for future stops. Kind of stinks you lose 2-3 days each way just getting there. We've made long pulls of 12 or so hours in a day on numerous occasions, but upon further consideration I don't think stringing 6-7 of these over a 2 week vacation would be real relaxing ;)
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I think you can do more than Yellowstone/Grand Teton, just not as much as you had before. I've done three 30 day crosscountry trips with grand ambitions on stops. I had the advantage of not having to backtrack because they were part of military moves.
We did YNP/GT in four days. We had five planned a blowout cost a day and you need to plan for such things. I'll go back for two weeks one day but four let us see the major sites. We do run hard days. Out of campground by 8am and back after dark. I'm out earlier and come back for the family.
We weren't impressed with Rushmore but I want to give it a second chance given the folks here love it. We drove through Custer and it would have been real impressive had we not just left YNP.
Pick a bob and weave route to and from YNP and look for options along the way. Badlands, Cody, WY, etc. We try to do something local in every state we pass through if we haven't visited it before.
