Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

For our last weekend of vacation we decided to spend it at Bighorn Canyon NRA.  It looked like a great place to stay and is close to Montana.  Oh and camping is free!  So we left Fort Collins and set off on the 8 hour drive up to Lovell WY.

After some delays here and there and a couple stops along the way we got to the visitors center well after they had closed.  By the way US 20 up to Thermopolis was an incredible drive and anyone who has the chance should do it.  So we continued on to the campsite.  It was mostly empty seeing as the weather wasn't the greatest.  We picked out a site with a nice view and settled in for the night.

The next day we headed back to the visitors center.   From there we determined that if nothing else we should go to the Devil's Overlook.  The overlook peers down 1000 feet into the canyon below.  It was breathtaking.  After looking around for a while we started to play with the echo.  So much fun.

At that point it was getting a little cold and windy so we just went back to camp.  Sitting at camp watching the wind pick up I decided it was time to fly a kite.  Thankfully the day before I had purchased a couple from a gas station.  We had a little difficulty at first but after thinking about the physics of it and retying the string it was smooth sailing.

Then some dinner and a movie before we called it a night.  Well to be fair I'm pretty sure we both fell asleep before the movie was over.  Tomorrow we head for Montana.