We skirted through Yellowstone late in the day, hoping to avoid August traffic. We only stopped to eat and to quickly look at the water falls. Because of rain earlier in the day the Yellowstone river was flowing nicely.
Our plan was to camp around 9-10 p.m. at one of the many state campgrounds outside the northeast entrance to the park, in the
Shoshone National Forest. We checked the entrances into five different campgrounds and all forbade tent (non -hard -sided) camping due to grizzly activity! By 11: 30 p.m. after diving another 30 miles away from the gate, we were exhausted and decided to just poach camp on a ranch road.
We later found out that a death had occurred after a recently tranquillized and collared grizzly, presumably woke-up, and mauled an unfortunate 70year old resident and botanist out for his hike.
The next day we drove through Cody WY, and on to
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The area was beautiful, and not very busy mid-week. They had rangeland for wild horsed and some great historic ranches to visit on the south end. We wished we had a boat to explore the river canyon, and that the wind didn’t howl after sunset.
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