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Colter Bay RV Park in Grand Teton National Park: Campground Review

February 10, 2018 by kokotg Leave a Comment

We drove by a lot of no hook-ups National Park campgrounds last summer, and I spent a lot of time gazing at them wistfully, feeling sad because we’re just not set up for dry camping. And then driving for half an hour outside the park to wherever our private campground was. But at Colter Bay […]

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Two Days in the Tetons: Visiting Grand Teton National Park

February 4, 2018 by kokotg 5 Comments

Travel dates: June 21-23, 2017 I think a lot of people view a visit to Grand Teton National Park the same way we did: as something you really might as well do when you’re already so close, visiting Yellowstone. And then, like us, they get there and realize that, not only is Grand Teton a beautiful, […]

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Touring Yellowstone, Part 2: Yellowstone West (not West Yellowstone. That’s another post)

January 15, 2018 by kokotg 4 Comments

Travel dates: June 17-21, 2017 I’m tearing right along with these posts now, because I started mapping out in my head how many I’ll need to do a week in order to finish before our next summer trip….and I realized I needed to get moving. I’ve got to say, though, that spending the entire year between summer […]

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Fishing Bridge RV Park Isn’t So Scary: A Campground Review

January 11, 2018 by kokotg 11 Comments

Travel dates: June 15-17, 2017 My post about all the stuff we did in Yellowstone while we were staying at Fishing Bridge Two days before we were due to arrive at Fishing Bridge RV Park in Yellowstone, I had something approaching a panic attack about it and spent an evening reading terrifying reviews online, becoming […]

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Touring Yellowstone, Part 1: Yellowstone East

January 9, 2018 by kokotg 6 Comments

Travel dates: June 15-17, 2017 We left Cody and drove into Yellowstone National Park from the east, and our first impressions were of wildness and vastness. It had been an exceptionally wet winter, and there was snow everywhere, even in the middle of June (the snowman was waiting for us when we arrived; we didn’t […]

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Planning a Yellowstone Trip with Kids

December 29, 2017 by kokotg 6 Comments

travel dates: June 15-21, 2017 What I remember most about the planning process for the Yellowstone part of our trip is that I found it completely overwhelming. I’m not sure if you’ve heard the rumors, but it’s true: Yellowstone is BIG. And we had six nights planned there, making it one of the longest stops […]

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Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY: A Shortish Visit with Kids

November 29, 2017 by kokotg 3 Comments

Travel date: June 14, 2017 If you have a day to spend in Cody, WY, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West can easily fill it for you (and then some). The most common description of this place is that it is “Smithsonian level.” I can vouch for that, adding that it comes without the […]

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Buffalo Bill State Park in Cody, WY: Campground Review

November 23, 2017 by kokotg 1 Comment

travel dates: June 13-15, 2017 Our trip from Devil’s Tower to Cody was fraught with drama. First we had to drive over the Bighorn Mountains, which I’d started worrying about probably a full year before our trip. This went fine. (I talk more about it in my short recap of that part of the trip). Then […]

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Devils Tower National Monument with Kids: A Stormy Night at America’s First National Monument

November 14, 2017 by kokotg 10 Comments

Travel dates: June 12-13, 2017 The danger of giving yourself only one afternoon/evening to tour Devils Tower, America’s very first National Monument (designated as such by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906) is that a poorly timed thunderstorm can really mess up your plans. We got to the KOA next door to the park fairly early in […]

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Devils Tower KOA Campground Review: A KOA with a View

November 12, 2017 by kokotg 4 Comments

Travel dates: June 12-13, 2017 This was one of my favorite moments from our trip: brothers spending the evening hanging out at the campground playground with Devil’s Tower in the background. That’s a pretty good summer right there. The main thing the Devil’s Tower KOA has going for it is its proximity to the park […]

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