not to mention shouldn’t be any crowds at bryce canyon.
Colorado Road Trip Routes or Destinations
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not to mention shouldn’t be any crowds at bryce canyon.
You can do Yellowstone for sure. The park is shaped like a figure 8 sort of. You can drive to the main areas, get out, and explore. You can also do Grand Teton National Park on that kind of trip. It’s just south.
Glacier if you want to go further. It’s amazing. We usually go every year. West Glacier for a first visit driving the Going to the Sun Road. Plan in advance. They limit entry daily. Yo have to have your Glacier National Park pass + a daily entry pass ($2). It’s difficult to get the daily entry pass. It really is necessary for them to limit entry. There wouldn’t be anywhere to park. If you enter before 6am you don’t need the daily entry pass.
Summerish probably? Maybe I should do early fall instead. I certainly won't have AC
Who needs AC, where you’re going, you don’t need AC.
Pull a Mac! Top off and 2,000 miles of who cares!
@lBasket I didn’t read the whole thread so I don’t know what you’re thinking, but you could go West to Durango/Silverton Area, do Mesa Verde, go through Moab or up through the Rockies (I don’t know much in this area but I bet you do) to Grand Tetons, then to Yellowstone, and on up to Glacier. Would be pretty epic.
In the middle of the desertI tolerate heat pretty well honestly. Probably part of why I have no AC
I wish! Lol this is planning for the MR2 I want to take it on a long drive. Just a hard top. There were like 10-15 convertibles made I think though
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Is there an MR2 group that does tours? That would be really cool! You could score some friends too.
Fun area to explore for sure! Park City is a nice little downtown to meander around. Guardsman Pass between Park City and (south) SLC isn't super long, it is paved and scenic! And the exit out Big Cottonwood Canyon is a fun road too. The Little Cottonwood Canyon road up to Snowbird is cool, and you can take the tram up to Hidden Peak.
That should fill a day anyways!
Not out here that I know of... From what I've seen there are few enough of them out here they have trouble getting a group together for single day cruises. I think it might be a fun solo adventure anyways!
That does sound cool, I think the original route I was looking at was a bit too long and didn't leave much time to actually get out and do stuff. This route goes by dinosaur monument too so could also stop there
Is there anything interesting in that Wyoming area down to CO or am I just destined for a boring 10h straight drive home from Yellowstone?
the largest privately owned military museum is in Wyoming. came across that and had to stop for the kids and wife (bańo). spent 4 hours and only a 1/4 of the building.
I was wondering the same thing. I’ve been on 90 all the way from Denver through Wyoming and it was boring. But West of 90 I don’t know.
Isn’t Chris over there!? Go bug him (pun intended).
my son next to a bullet resting his arm on the case.
I try and travel as much as i can by highways instead of interstates. so when i do my roadtrips. these are the stops i look for. it’s way faster to get places by the interstate. but you miss out on the things that make america.
https://nmmv.org/
highway 26. cuts through the wind river reservation
Oh cool that is totally on the way back from yellowstone. I do prefer the smaller highways I will probably try to detour to take those for the most part. Will be more enjoyable than just going straight
MR2 people are all dorks, Trevor doesn’t want to be seen with them.
It's like owning a jeep... You just gotta find the actually cool ones. But with a car like that they're all on the track, and I'm not there yet
Maybe a weekend trip, not a week trip, but if you haven't done Hwy 92 (Black Canyon National Forest) between Blue Mesa Reservoir and Hotchkiss, that's one of my favorite motorcycle roads in the state. I usually do a 3 or 4 day weekend every summer on the bike and hit up the San Juan's. In no particular order of favorite nor route planning, Grand Mesa - Hwy 65, Black Canyon National Forest - Hwy 92, Hwy 149 between Lake City and Creede, Hwy 114 between Saguache and Gunnison, Hwy 141 from Gateway to Naturita are some of my favorite twisty paved roads.