Summer of 2022

From Utah we made our way to Dubois, Wyoming where we spent the next two months.  Dubois is a small town in west central Wyoming, located on the Wind River, in a valley between the Wind River mountains and the Absoroka Mountains.  The Gros Ventres mountains are toward the west. The elevation of the town is about 7000 feet.  A day that the temperature reaches 85 is a rare hot day.

Dubois is one of the most isolated towns in the US.  There is only one highway that passes through town.  Traveling west, it is about 85 miles to the nearest town of Jackson and 75 miles to Riverton, the nearest town to the east.

Badlands near Dubois, just north of town

Just south of town, our kind of road

Views from our RV site

One of our favorite activities is driving back roads.  There are hundreds of miles of back roads in the surrounding mountains.

The road over Union Pass.

Our first trip to the Union Pass area was shortly after we arrived in the area.  There were still large banks of snow in the third week of June

Brooks Lake

Brooks Creek Falls

Clouds above the Absoroka Mts.

Fish Lake

Torry Lake

Grand Teton National Park was about 50 miles west and over a mountain range.  We drove there one day but it was so crowded we just drove the main roads and left.

This summer was one of the better wildflower years.  The mountains seemed to be covered with them.

After our two month stay in Dubois, we moved to an RV park near Thermopolis, WY.  Pat likes to soak in the hot mineral springs there.

After soaking for a few days, we moved to a RV park near Lander, WY to be near some places we wanted to see.

Castle Gardens, east of Riverton, is an area where the Plains Indians carved petroglyphs in the soft rock.

Perhaps the original smiley face.

A ghost town with the interesting name of Miners Delight.

Red Canyon

The famous South Pass

On the west side of South Pass is Pacific Springs

The temperatures were starting to fall, so, like the birds, it was time for us to migrate south.

We stopped at the historical site of Fort Bridger, WY, the trading post built by the famous mountain man, Jim Bridger.  This was the Walmart of its day.

We are always on the lookout for wildlife.

While on our southward migration, we stopped for a few days at Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.

In the campground was this herd of pronghorn.  We have never seen pronghorn this tolerant of people.   

Our parking spot on the lake

We moseyed on back to our winter quarters in Surprise, AZ.  We had such a wonderful summer we didn't want it to end but we will spend the time planning our trip for next year, hopefully in our new motorhome.