trip to Yellowstone
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Going on 3 months since our last posts, and am just now finalizing my plans for the trip out West. Things on this end kept changing; so it took me a while to get to the point of engraving things in stone. On the way out I've got most of it sorted out; but am still trying to figure out the way back. Am thinking of leaving Billings and then spending a day or two in the Yellowstone & Grand Teton areas - Any thoughts on reasonably priced places to stay (...anything over $100 a night is a wee bit tough to swallow) outside of the Parks; but still within relatively short riding distances for day rides? Am still looking at past posts and places mentioned.... After a couple of days I'll have to start heading back East to keep with my traveling schedule.
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Going on 3 months since our last posts, and am just now finalizing my plans for the trip out West. Things on this end kept changing; so it took me a while to get to the point of engraving things in stone. On the way out I've got most of it sorted out; but am still trying to figure out the way back. Am thinking of leaving Billings and then spending a day or two in the Yellowstone & Grand Teton areas - Any thoughts on reasonably priced places to stay (...anything over $100 a night is a wee bit tough to swallow) outside of the Parks; but still within relatively short riding distances for day rides? Am still looking at past posts and places mentioned.... After a couple of days I'll have to start heading back East to keep with my traveling schedule.
To get there, go west on I-90 from Billings about 115 miles. Get off at Livingston and go south on US 89. You'll hit Gardiner just before hitting the Park. The ride down from Livingston through Paradise Valley is one of my favorites around here.
Don't miss the museum in Cody ... also be ready for wild weather. Four of us stayed in Yellowstone on a return from Sturgis to Las Vegas. Arrived at a blamy 78 degrees in YNP. By the time we finished dinner it was high 40s. Woke up to 28 degrees in the early am and we were tent camping. Try breakfast at Bubbas in Jackson Hole if you get there.
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beartooth rally is 16th,17th and 18th,poker run over beartooth pass on the 17th,wife and I are going,bring camping gear and you can take in the rally while you're out here.
http://www.beartoothrally.com/
http://www.beartoothrally.com/
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beartooth rally is 16th,17th and 18th,poker run over beartooth pass on the 17th,wife and I are going,bring camping gear and you can take in the rally while you're out here.
http://www.beartoothrally.com/
http://www.beartoothrally.com/
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From: Cape Cod, MA, USA
It looks like Gardiner & West Yellowstone are right by the entrances for dealing with Yellowstone, then once I head further south through Grand Teton I can either head out on US-191 or US-287 & there will be reasonably priced motels. Still have "Mom & Pop" places I could check out - So far I've just been looking at the "Name Brand" stuff....
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the mom and pop places are definitely the way to go,nice one in Laurel,MT fairly near there,we go there sometimes when we visit the wife's parents.
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It looks like Gardiner & West Yellowstone are right by the entrances for dealing with Yellowstone, then once I head further south through Grand Teton I can either head out on US-191 or US-287 & there will be reasonably priced motels. Still have "Mom & Pop" places I could check out - So far I've just been looking at the "Name Brand" stuff....
Mom-n-pop places are scarcer around GTNP. There are some places along US 287 just east of Moran Jct. I just can't recall anything on US 191 from Moran Jct until you get close to Jackson. Maybe a WY local knows better. (I always camp when I'm down there.)
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Teton Pass is amazing, isn't it? Can get a bit sketchy in the winter.