Sadly, we left Yellowstone Natioal Park for Cody, Wyoming on Saturday morning. Our drive took us across the park and over the pass, out the East gate and down the canyon to Cody just 130 miles away.
Driving along the road in the park we saw herds of Bison and this one that was close to the road. Sharleen grabbed the camera and got a quick shot as we drove past. What an amazing place with all the wildlife.
We stopped at a turn out along the road and were rewarded with this great early morning view. What a great day for a drive.
Just had to include this one ..... I think Sharleen had a little too much coffee this morning!
We made it to Cody in time to do some things in the afternoon. This is the museum in town that is really one of the great ones. It's 4 museums in one and includes the Buffalo Bill museum, Gun museum, the best Plains Indian museum we have seen and a natural history museum. The gun museum alone has 2700 guns and to really look at them all it would take days.
This is the Shoshone river below the dam. The town of Cody was founded by William "Buffalo Bill" Cody with the goal of becoming a rich farming area. He built the dam on this river and the lake that it formed was used for crop irrigation. The town never realized his dream but the dam and lake remain today.
We drove out to Heart Mountain shown here. It's the site of one of the internment camps where the Japanese were held for three years from 1942 to 1945. There isn't much left of the camp but there is a visitor center which has the history and stories of some of the residents. In all, about 14,000 residents were housed here in very sparse conditions.
After a day of exploring Cody, we headed for the Black Hills with a drive over the Big Horn mountians. We're now in Hill City SD with two days to enjoy the sights before heading East again. More from here in a day or two.
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