Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks

This is the second page of pictures from our July 2006 tour of Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks. If you somehow missed the first page of pictures, click here: Page 1.

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After our horse ride, we had another long drive into the Bighorn Mountains. I was surprised at the immensity of this range. We stopped on the side of the road to look back on the view of the western edge of the Great Plains.

A short time later, we stopped at the Bear Lodge for lunch, and I took the pictures below before we continued on to Cody, WY.

After lunch, our guide took us on a wildflower walk at 8,500 feet, and then we drove over the mountain pass which was 9,035 feet. This pass was the highest elevation on our tour.

The picture to the left is of Shell Falls in the Bighorn Mountains.

We arrived in Cody in the late afternoon of July 2; and after dinner, our tour guide surprised us with tickets to the Cody Stampede, a pro rodeo that’s held every year in July. I didn’t take my still camera to the rodeo...but I did take my video camera. Click on the video to the left to get a taste of the rodeo.

It was a very long day of touring; starting at 7:30 in the morning with a horse ride in Ucross and ending at 10:30 at night when we got back to our hotel in Cody from the rodeo. Of course, it was a day we won’t soon forget

We spent the next morning in Cody touring the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. There are really five museums in this center: The Buffalo Bill Museum, The Whitney Gallery of Western Art, The Plains Indian Museum, The Cody Firearms Museum, and the The Draper Museum of Natural History. The exhibits are world-class; and, although I’m not interested in guns at all, the firearms museum is unbelievable.