First campsite: Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Wyoming. Apparently, not quite summer.
Then to Keyhole State Park, where we had a lakeside campground all to ourselves. There are advantages to off-season travel.
Black-tailed prairie dogs in Devils Tower National Monument.
Devils Tower from the Red Beds loop trail.
Mount Rushmore was on the road to our next destination in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It's a profoundly weird place.
Bison in Custer State Park, near our stopover in Hot Spring, South Dakota.
Badlands Overlook, a popular boondocker camping area just outside Badlands National Park in the Buffalo Gap National Grassland.
Welcome to the short-grass prairie.
Bighorn sheep strolling through our campsite. Literally shot this from inside the van while having morning coffee.
Badlands National Park roadside vista.
Mammatus clouds (Google it) over our campsite in the primitive Sage Creek Campground in Badlands National Park. The campground is in the middle of a prairie dog town where bison also spent the night.
Pasque flower, the state flower of South Dakota, in our boondocker campsite in the Black Hills National Forest.
Fort Laramie National Historic Site. Wyoming.
Portable housing units of the Great Plains.
Our last night of camping was in the San Rafael Swell, Utah, within easy hiking distance of the spectacular Rochester rock art panel.
