There is a moment that happens in Lamar Valley that doesn’t happen many other places on earth. You pull off the road, cut the engine, roll down the windows, and realize that what you’re looking at isn’t one thing. It’s everything at once. We had elk moving along the tree line. Pronghorn in the open … Read more
Carhenge exists because of one man’s grief and one man’s stubbornness. Jim Reinders, an engineer who spent years working in England, spent that time studying the design and layout of the real Stonehenge — the way the stones were spaced, angled, and scaled.
If you’re reading this article, you already know the frustration. You searched dogs in Yellowstone and got a paragraph on the NPS website and a dozen travel blogs that either copied it verbatim or got it partially wrong. You have dogs. You want to go to Yellowstone. You can’t find a clear, honest answer about … Read more
The Fall River Pioneer Museum is housed in a four-story sandstone building that has been standing on a hill above downtown Hot Springs since 1893. For sixty-eight years it was a school. Since 1961 it’s been a museum, and the transition between those two identities is part of what makes it worth the walk up … Read more
Most travelers who visit the southern Black Hills treat Hot Springs as a logistics hub — a place to sleep and fuel up between Wind Cave and Custer State Park. That’s understandable, and it means the downtown tends to get about twenty minutes of attention before people head back to the campground. Give it an … Read more
On May 31, 1834, William Sublette laid the foundation log for a trading post at the confluence of the Laramie and North Platte Rivers, then left his partner Robert Campbell behind with thirteen men to finish building it while he pushed on to that year’s rendezvous. Passing the same spot days later, a missionary named … Read more
