On to Colorado!

Two Days each in Montana & Wyoming!

Still “rushing” through Montana & Wyoming, heading for Colorado (to be there while the Rockies are in town). Since Helena, we’ve spent 2 nights in Hardin, MT and 2 in Casper, WY (cover photo is our arrival in Wyoming). That is the last we’ll see of Montana this trip, but we will be back to Wyoming a couple of more times.

We did have 2 days for exploring, visiting from Hardin on June 9, in Casper, yesterday:

Pompey’s Pillar National Monument, under the Bureau of Land Management, is on the banks of the Yellowstone River with a massive sandstone outcrop covering about 2 acres at its base and rising 120 feet high.  Hundreds of markings, petroglyphs, and inscriptions left by visitors including William Clark and the Lewis and Clark Expedition have transformed this geologic phenomenon into a living journal of the American West
Bighorn Canyon NRA-Yellowtail Dam (#127-Revisit), well, sort of a revisit. We had visited Bighorn Canyon NRA, Southern District in Wyoming in 2018. In the Northern District, we explored Yellowtail Dam from downstream and upstream, driving the scenic road through the Crow Indian Reservation, and doing a couple of hikes.
National Historic Trails Interpretive Center, Casper, also a BLM Site. Where the Road Ends and the West Begins, is a great museum about the on the Oregon, California, Mormon and Pony Express Trails. We lucked out, visiting on a day with a living history exhibit outside!
Fort Casper & Museum, a military post of the US Army in present-day Wyoming, named after 2nd Lieutenant Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army officer, killed in the 1865 Battle of the Platte Bridge Station against the Lakota and Cheyenne