Re: Wyoming Trip Report (May-Jun 2025)

On 6/28/2025 9:12 PM, Ted Heise wrote:

Day 13 was a drive from Wyoming to western Nebraska.  By now I’d
realized that traffic on much of I-90 in Wyoming was reasonably
light and I didn’t feel that pulling the trailer at 60 mph was
inconveniencing other drivers all that much.  So we took that
route around the Black Hills and through Sturgis and Rapid City.
Neither of these towns were very attractive to me, though the
landscapes were.

My brother-in-law lives in Rapid City, and the wife's parents lived between Custer and Deadwood for about 25 years before moving back this way.  I have to agree with your assessment of Rapid and Sturgis.  Not must see places.  Rapid is really not very big at all, and Sturgis only has the biker rally.  It gets damn hot out there in the summer, too.

 From Rapid City we took 44 down through the Badlands, though it
seemed more appropriate that they should have been called the
Badroads.  Ugh.  Rough, narrow, and rough.  Did I mention they
were rough?  There was a nice stretch through pine ridges and it
got a little better once we entered Nebraska.

Try going there when the rally is going on.  You just can't get anywhere with all the 2 lane roads and bikers clogging up everything.  BIL likes to come visit us when it is going on the roads and getting around are so bad.

The state park at Merritt Reservoir was a bit rustic.  The place
clearly catered mostly to fishermen, and it also seemed somewhat
trashy.  It was fine for a night, though.  And we had a nice
sunset...
 https://panix.com/~theise/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250603_213017.jpg

I see they claim to have "some of the darkest skies in the world".  Did you have a clear night and see the Milky Way?
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