We left Gardiner early this morning heading for Loveland, Colorado. We had to drive through Yellowstone to head south. I choose to take the west part of the loop because it was not as mountainous and they weren't working on it. Taking that route we crossed the continental divide three times.
This was the second time we crossed it.
This little pond is rather unique in that it drains into both the Pacific and Gulf water shed.
We also had to drive through a part of the Teton NP. These two pictures were taken at one of the pull offs in the park. The view is of course the Teton Mountains.
Also a view of the Teton Mountains from the same pull off. From here we drove to Riverton Wyoming and spent the night in the Wal-mart parking lot. Riverton is in the Wind River Indian Reservation.6/27/2007
From Riverton we took State Road 135. It was very hilly and I saw some signs I never saw before. They have gates to close the road in the winter when the snow and wind get too bad.
One of the sign we saw when we were 15 miles out of Riverton said "Road closed go back to Riverton". I was sure glad it wasn't winter. When we finally got to interstate 80 we drove one exit on it and then it was closed. We had to take a detour onto old route 30 which meant we would have to go an extra 30 miles for a total of 130 to Laramie. The road wasn't that great either and all the 18 wheelers were flying by me like I was standing still. The road from Laramie to Cheyenne goes over a really high mountain. When we got to the top it was very foggy and windy. Fortunately it wasn't very far until we came back down out of the mountains and into Cheyenne. Cheyenne to Loveland was a short trip on interstate 25. The campground "Loveland RV Park" is only a couple of blocks off route 25 on route 34. Route 34 is the route that goes to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain NP. We are scheduled to stay until July 5th when we will go to Pueblo, Co. for the FCRV National Rally.
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