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Why Wyoming Road Trips Make the Best Family Memories

This five-day itinerary highlights some of wyoming’s best family-friendly activities—from paddleboarding on fremont lake to fly fishing, sandboarding, and unforgettable wildlife sightings..

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When it comes to family road trips, there’s perhaps no destination filled with as many possibilities as the Cowboy State . The Western region of Wyoming offers a wide range of active pursuits that can be enjoyed by all ages. In this itinerary, you’ll start your adventure in Pinedale, a walkable town known for its mountain biking trails, a museum that showcases the history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, and its proximity to Fremont Lake, the seventh-deepest lake in the country. Further south, you’ll encounter the Killpecker Sand Dunes, a prehistoric volcano, and the rapids of the Green River. It’s a trip that’s equally busy as it is relaxing—and you’ll leave already planning your next trip back out West.

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Fremont lake.

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Many of the Wind River Range’s peaks and alpine lakes can be accessed from Pinedale.

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Day 1: Get a taste of the West in Pinedale

Fremont Lake is 12 miles long and one mile wide, but you can only swim in the marked areas.

Day 2: Hiking, fly fishing, and boating around Fremont Lake

Don’t forget to pack your mountain biking gear for the Pinedale portion of the road trip.

Day 3: Mountain bike through the Bridger-Teton National Forest

Sandboards, skis, or sleds can be used to slide down the dunes.

Day 4: Sandboarding in Killpecker Sand Dunes

Southwest Wyoming is one of the best places to see the state’s population of wild horses.

Days 5-6: Spot the wild horses of Wyoming and float the Green River

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Perfect Wyoming road trip of 7 days driving across Wyoming ⛰ 1 week Wyoming itinerary ⛰ Wyoming travel blog

There are of course many ways you can spend 7 days in Wyoming.

Below is basically how I did it.

Hopefully it can give you ideas as you are planning your own road trip out west to Wyoming!

The Wyoming road trip itinerary: Things to do with 7 days in WYoming

It’s a road trip to Wyoming national parks and Wyoming national forests!

Wyoming driving route: Devils Tower to Yellowstone

This drive across Wyoming starts in eastern Wyoming and ends in western Wyoming.

In short, it is a slow drive across Wyoming from Devils Tower to Yellowstone.

It is possible to drive from Devils Tower to Yellowstone in one day.

With no stops, drive time from Devils Tower to Yellowstone is maybe around 7.5 hours. ( map ) Yellowstone is big, and it will vary based on your destination within Yellowstone. 

This Wyoming road trip takes one week to get from Devils Tower to Yellowstone!

We will start Day 1 with the first full day in Wyoming!

I was coming from the Black Hills of South Dakota . If you are coming from the east, you can drive from Mount Rushmore to Devils Tower .

Note that this is a generally slow-going drive across Wyoming.

It doesn’t need to take you 7 days to drive from eastern Wyoming to western Wyoming.

It’s possible for you to drive through Wyoming more quickly without making overnight stops as I did.

So, consider this a starting point for Wyoming travel ideas!

I did a Wyoming road trip in September and October 2021.

Day 1: Devils Tower National Monument

The Devils Tower campground was first come first serve.

So my first stop in Devils Tower was the campground.

That night there was a “campground full” sign! This was the end of September.

This time of year was still borderline comfortable camping weather in this part of Wyoming. You will want to pack for cooler weather sleeping though!

After setting up camp, it was a full day in Devils Tower National Monument !

The Tower Trail will get you as close as you can get to the icon of Devils Tower… if you won’t be rock climbing!

Devils Tower is said to be a great place to view the night sky . And the sky was clear the night I was here and you could see a ton of stars.

People watching (climber watching) is a thing at Devils Tower. You can see people (rock climbers) scaling Devils Tower.

Also very interesting to me at night was the rock climbers that were still climbing Devils Tower in the dark! (Presumably they were on their way down!) You could see them lighting up Devils Tower even from a distance.

See more for planning your Wyoming itinerary:

• Things to do in Devils Tower National Monument
• Devils Tower campground
• Day trip from Jackson Hole: Yellowstone Old Faithful geyser, waterfalls and wildlife day tour
• Scenic wildlife float in Jackson Hole

Day 2: Bighorn National Forest

Devils tower to bighorn national forest: cloud peak skyway, 2 nights in bighorn national forest cabin.

If you’re driving from Devils Tower to Yellowstone, the Cloud Peak Skyway is said to be the scenic route, and it’s also said to be the route with the least grade.

The Cloud Peak Skyway is a drive from Buffalo WY to Tensleep WY, and it will take you through Bighorn National Forest.

Driving from Buffalo to Tensleep without stops will take you less than 1.5 hours.

I didn’t make it all the way to Tensleep.

Instead, I spent 2 nights in Bighorn National Forest in a Wyoming national forest cabin . There are chain hotels in Buffalo WY.

So this was an easy-going day. I basically used it as a slow day to also get used to the elevation for the high altitude hike planned the next day in Bighorn National Forest!

The highest point you will get by driving the Cloud Peak Skyway is 9,666 feet as you are driving the Powder River Pass.

Cabins in Wyoming national forests

Across Wyoming, you can find cabins in national forests.

I thought the option of being able to stay at a cabin in a Wyoming national forest was so great.

I stayed at the Muddy Guard cabin in Bighorn National Forest.

The national forest cabins vary depending on what they offer, so you’ll want to be sure to read through the description thoroughly to understand what you need to bring with you.

The reviews I read for national forest cabins in Wyoming were all pretty good as I recall, but you’ll want to be sure to read the reviews.

But generally for national forest cabins, you will need to bring your own bedding. The amenities will vary. This may or may not include things like electricity, kitchen supplies, and drinking water. There may or may not be a bathroom inside the cabin. (It might be an outhouse instead.) etc etc!

Some cabins have a minimum 2-night stay required.

When I stayed at the Muddy Guard cabin, it was $44 per night including fees.

Book early!

You’ll also need to call the National Forest Service for the code to get into the cabin. Be sure to remember to do this before you go.

You won’t have phone service at the cabin!

And service was nearly non-existent in Buffalo WY, although maybe you’ll be able to get some.

How to find a Wyoming national forest cabin

The way to book a national forest cabin in Wyoming is through recreation.gov . You can search by location (Wyoming) and then you can filter the results to include cabins only.

Then, take a look at the map to see if there are any cabins that are somewhat along your route! Or drive out of the way to it!

Search for your perfect cabin!

To get to your cabin, it is best to follow the directions as provided by the US Forest Service in your email confirmation, instead of relying on google maps.

Cabins can be in remote areas with various backroads leading to them. And those backroads may be what google maps directs you to but not the best way to get there!

Also take this as meaning that it can be an epic Wyoming experience by staying at a cabin in a national forest!

Day 3: Bighorn National Forest

This was basically a hiking day in the Cloud Peak Wilderness !

I hiked the Lost Twin Lakes Trail to the Lost Twin Lakes. Well actually there are 2 lakes (“twin lakes”) and I only made it to one.

This was a big hiking day in Wyoming at around 13 miles round trip. It will be best to wear good footwear for this hike (aka hiking boots) as there is some rough surface across rocks. You may want to give yourself around 6 hours to complete this Wyoming hike.

It starts from the West Tensleep trailhead which you will access off the Cloud Peak Skyway.

If you are looking to go backpacking in the Wyoming mountains, the Mistymoon Lake Trail to Cloud Peak seems to be one to consider for an overnight trip. You can also start this from the West Tensleep trailhead.

• Wyoming hikes with amazing views

Day 4: Shoshone National Forest and Bridger-Teton National Forest

• Bighorn National Forest to Grand Teton National Park

2 nights near Grand Teton National Park

This was mostly an easy-going driving day to get near Grand Teton National Park to be ready for a full day in Grand Teton National Park the following day! From Buffalo WY or Tensleep WY to Grand Teton National Park is around a 4.5 to 5.5 hour drive with no stops.

My destination near Grand Teton National Park was Moran WY. This is a smaller town.

This was first a drive through Tensleep Canyon and Wind River Canyon.

Then, it meant a drive through Shoshone National Forest and Bridger-Teton National Forest.

I stopped by Shoshone National Forest to hike from Brooks Lake to Jade Lake. The Jade Lakes Trail goes to 2 lakes. Going to both of them is around a 5.5 mile hike. You might want to give yourself around 3 hours for the hike.

Hotels near Grand Teton National Park

Hotels near Grand Teton National Park are expensive.

The popular gateway town near Grand Teton National Park is Jackson WY.

I stayed in Moran WY which is also near Grand Teton National Park, but it’s not much of a town.

I was very happy to be able to find a place to stay for $115 a night including taxes and fees. It was a budget room at the Hatchet Resort . It was quite literally on the border of Bridger-Teton National Forest.

The room was small, the walls were thin, and it was a shared bathroom. They actually call it a hostel room because of the shared bathroom. It gave me a place to stay for “cheap” near Grand Teton National Park so I didn’t mind though.

But, keep this in mind if you are thinking about staying here! This is basically just a spot to rest your head!

Day 5: Grand Teton National Park

It was a day in Grand Teton National Park!

I started off driving part of the Grand Teton scenic loop drive along Teton Park Road and Jenny Lake Scenic Drive on the way to the Lupine Meadows trailhead.

This was another big hiking day in Wyoming .

From the Lupine Meadows trailhead, I ended up hiking to Delta Lake, Surprise Lake, and Amphitheater Lake. This turned into something like a 12 mile round trip hike.

• How to spend one day in Grand Teton National Park
• 42-mile Grand Teton scenic loop drive

Day 6: Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park

Grand teton national park to yellowstone national park, 2 nights near yellowstone national park.

This day was basically a few hours in Grand Teton National Park and a few hours in Yellowstone National Park.

Grand Teton and Yellowstone are directly connected by road.

So first in Grand Teton National Park, I did the rest of the Grand Teton scenic loop drive that I didn’t do the day before. And then I did a shorter hike to another mountain lake with views of the Teton Range. That was a hike to Taggart Lake which is around a 4 mile round trip hike. You might give yourself around 2 hours to complete this hike.

Then it was onwards to Yellowstone National Park!

When coming from Grand Teton National Park, the West Thumb Geyser Basin in Yellowstone can be a perfect first stop. This is located on the southern side of Yellowstone (aka the Grand Teton side) so it will basically be the first “big” stop you’ll come across where you can see what Yellowstone is known for! (That’s thermal features.) This also allows you to not only see Yellowstone Lake, by you’ll do a walk along the lake too!

The popular Yellowstone attractions were for the following day!

Hotels near Yellowstone National Park

Hotels near Yellowstone National Park are very expensive. I really do not like paying $250 a night for a hotel. (And this is somewhat “off-season.”)

I don’t like it so much that I was seriously considering camping in 30 degree weather, as the weather forecast was at one point.

I’m not sure if I would have.

But Grose Ventre Campground in Grand Teton National Park had availability. (I had made a reservation before leaving on this Wyoming road trip.)

And Lewis Lake Campground in Yellowstone National Park was first-come first serve and it did not seem to not be filling up on a daily basis. (Yellowstone has a cool feature where it shows you what time campgrounds fill up each day! I was checking that regularly in the days leading up to the trip to Yellowstone.)

But then, the weather forecast changed to overnight lows in the 20s. I definitely was not doing that. (Although I did consider it for a split second.)

Well, I guess because it was off-season I was able to find a hotel for “only” $221 a night with taxes and fees for a same-day booking in West Yellowstone MT at Days Inn . But you are better off booking early if you’ll be traveling in Wyoming in the summer!

West Yellowstone is in Montana located right outside of Yellowstone National Park, and this is a popular gateway town with many chain hotels. The vast majority of Yellowstone National Park is in Wyoming, but there is a very small portion of land that is also in the neighboring states of Montana and Idaho.

• Driving from Grand Teton to Yellowstone

Day 7: Yellowstone National Park

It was a day in Yellowstone National Park!

I wasn’t all that interested in a jam-packed day, so this was a mostly easy-going one day in Yellowstone National Park .

The theme of the day was the thermal features that Yellowstone is known for! I saw tons of thermal features including hot springs, bubbling mudpots , and steam vents (aka fumaroles ).

The most famous hot spring in Yellowstone is the Grand Prismatic Spring .

I saw some small geysers erupting, including the Clepsydra Geyser and Jewel Geyser .

And as it goes in Yellowstone, your timing will be off and you will likely pass by a bunch of geysers and maybe even wait around hoping that they will erupt when you’re there… and they don’t erupt. 😜

The most famous geyser in Yellowstone is the Old Faithful geyser .

You have a very good chance of seeing this geyser erupt because its eruptions are predictable and the National Park Service will even tell you when the next geyser eruption is predicted. It usually erupts every 1.5 hours.

When you arrive, you can go to the Old Faithful visitor center and there will be a time listed for the next Old Faithful geyser eruption .

Yellowstone National Park is also known for buffalo. I didn’t go to the areas of Yellowstone that are best known for buffalo sightings. (That is Lamar Valley and Hayden Valley.)

But I still did see buffalo several times in different areas of the park, including right in front of an erupting geyser !

But if you want to increase your chances of seeing buffalo, you’ll want to head to the places that are best known for wildlife sightings!

• How to spend one day in Yellowstone National Park

Leaving Wyoming: Wyoming to Idaho… and then Wyoming to Nebraska

From Wyoming (or more specifically Montana since that’s where I was staying near Yellowstone National Park), it was onwards to Craters of the Moon and lava fields in Idaho !

Then after that, it was basically a loop back around from Idaho back to Wyoming to drive back east.

I drove across southern Wyoming on the way back.

First was a quick stop in Fossil Butte National Monument ( NPS ) in southwest Wyoming.

And then I stopped in Medicine Bow National Forest for 2 nights in another national forest cabin . That was $94 a night.

Driving through Medicine Bow National Forest also included the Snowy Range Scenic Byway from Saratoga to Laramie WY. After that, I also did an overnight in Cheyenne WY in southeast Wyoming and that was just for sleep. (I didn’t actually do anything in Cheyenne.)

Then, from Cheyenne WY, it was leaving Wyoming again! And after that, it was Wyoming to Nebraska with the next destination as the Nebraska badlands that are part of a national grassland !

• Driving from Yellowstone to Craters of the Moon : Mesa Falls Scenic Byway
• Things to do in Craters of the Moon National Monument
• Wild caving on your own through Craters of the Moon lava tubes

And those are some ideas for your Wyoming road trip itinerary!

The best outdoor destinations for your wyoming itinerary.

Here is the quick list!

1. Yellowstone National Park

Wyoming is home to a supervolcano: the Yellowstone supervolcano .

As a result there are a ton of thermal features to explore in Wyoming.

Make it a Wyoming road trip to Yellowstone National Park to see the famous geyser eruption and the famous colorful hot spring !

This is the most popular national park in Wyoming .

2. Grand Teton National Park

Wyoming is also home to tons of mountain ranges.

The most famous mountain range in Wyoming that’s in a national park is the Teton Range.

Make it a Wyoming road trip to Grand Teton National Park to do the scenic loop drive for tons of mountain views!

3. Wyoming national forests

To experience more of Wyoming mountains, you can visit one of Wyoming’s many national forests.

Make it a Wyoming road trip to one or more of Wyoming national forests to hike to a mountain lake in Wyoming and/or stay at a national forest cabin in Wyoming !

To put it simply, this was my general Wyoming route that includes entering Wyoming and leaving Wyoming:

• Mount Rushmore to Devils Tower (South Dakota to Wyoming)
• 1 night in Hulett WY hotel (town near Devils Tower), 1 night in Devils Tower National Monument
• Devils Tower to Bighorn National Forest
• 2 nights in Bighorn National Forest cabin ( Wyoming national forest cabin )
• 2 nights in Moran WY lodge (gateway town near Grand Teton)
• Grand Teton to Yellowstone
• 2 nights in West Yellowstone MT (gateway town near Yellowstone)
• Yellowstone to Craters of the Moon (Wyoming to Idaho)

Explore the map . If you are looking at this map in the winter and there is no route outlined, this is likely because there is a closed road. This closed road is likely in Grand Teton National Park. Remove Teton Park Road from the list of stops to get a visual of the driving route!

Getting to Wyoming: South Dakota to Wyoming

I was coming from South Dakota .

On this particular trip, I spent 3 days driving across South Dakota. (I entered South Dakota from Minnesota. If you are coming from the east, also see about driving from Chicago to Wyoming .)

If you’re making it a road trip across America and you’ll be driving across South Dakota to get to Wyoming, then know that South Dakota is all about the Badlands and Black Hills ! And see the best places to visit in South Dakota .

On a previous trip, I spent 10 days in South Dakota . It was a South Dakota camping trip . At that time, I was coming from North Dakota, where you’ll find the remote North Dakota national park  too.

My first destination in Wyoming was Devils Tower National Monument . Or rather, it was actually a hotel outside Devils Tower. I spent the night there before the first “real” day of the Wyoming road trip!

See more for planning your Wyoming itinerary and beyond:

• Things to do in Mount Rushmore National Memorial
• Driving from Mount Rushmore to Devils Tower
• Best places to visit in South Dakota with VIEWS!

HAPPY PLANNING YOUR WYOMING ROAD TRIP!

How to do the great American road trip: Montana and Wyoming

T he old-time rancher looked us up and down, and then in his best cowboy drawl, asked, “Where y’all from?” On naming our home base, he insisted: “Florida? That’s the other side of the world.”

And, in his way, he was probably right. From Farson, Wyoming , the Sunshine State probably seemed a world away from the immense reaches of this Western-cultured state, where round-ups were still conducted on horseback and tourism was just a quaint idea.

True, we had all stopped for ice-cream at Farson Mercantile rather than anything cowboy-like, but the whipcord-slim old-timer gave the impression that anything from out of state might just as well be in a different hemisphere.

• Read part one of Diaries from the Road here
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• Read part three of Diaries from the Road here

This was the Wyoming we had hoped to discover, though, after scrapping plans to head further west. Our grand 12-month RV adventure had hit a roadblock, having come too far, too fast and put our Winnebago Sightseer under undue strain.

We’d had to decide between pushing on an additional 1,000 miles to Washington and Oregon in favour of more Montana and Wyoming, which we had only touched on during our hectic dashes to Yellowstone and Glacier National Park. Indeed, Wyoming had really piqued our curiosity with its small-city-big-country feel, and we wanted a deep dive into a state still predicated on ranching, mining and railways.

The most populous city is state capital Cheyenne, but, with 65,000 people, that’s less than Torquay in Devon. Yet Wyoming is nearly 4,000 square miles larger than the entire UK. To say it is an ocean of emptiness in a vast panorama of mountains, rivers and ranches is an understatement. Nature still rules the roost here, and that makes it perfect for exploring by RV.

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After the wonders of Glacier National Park , we had turned south-east through Montana and a welter of small towns, including the near ghost-town of Reed Point, agricultural Shelby and historic Great Falls, a pivotal location in the legendary Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1805.

Here, the Corps of Discovery spent more than a month hauling their boats up the Missouri River through five waterfalls, a compelling story excellently told at the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center and Giant Springs State Park , home of the shortest river in the world, the less-than-mighty 200ft Roe River.

The boutiquey Old West RV Park earned our plaudits for its location in the heart of Reed Point, with its Waterhole Saloon (and truly excellent burgers), while the nearby Harvest Host site of Greycliff Mill offered a modern counterpoint with its heavenly milkshakes, bagels and paninis. Natural Bridge Falls on the Boulder River scenic drive provided the eye candy.

That took us further south, into Wyoming and deeper into cowboy culture, via the town of Buffalo with its stately edifice of The Occidental Hotel and 1908 Saloon, and Sheridan, where Peter D’s RV Park offered one of the most user-friendly RV camps we had discovered to date.

By this stage – 4,635 miles into our journey – we had discovered the “secret” of RVing, and it wasn’t about pointing our rig, Indefatigable (or Fati for short), at the nearest scenic trail and following our noses, as we did during the first three months.

No, the essential truth of this unique style of travel was to use the RV as the base from which to explore in our little Ford Fiesta, Nippy. Therefore, we picked Sheridan, Casper, Wheatland and Green River as HQs for extensive adventuring, and dug into the magnificence that is Wyoming.

Sheridan, with its cute downtown, opened the door to the impressive Tongue River Canyon and the historic Fort Phil Kearny , site of a key battle in Red Cloud’s War from 1866-68; Casper offered us major stops on the fabled Oregon Trail , the 19 th -century pioneer route to the West Coast. We stood on the iconic Independence Rock and struggled to imagine how those intrepid folks would have viewed this stark landscape, battling through its countless barriers on foot, wagon and horseback.

They had to reach this point by 4 July on their epic 2,170-mile trek west or risk not achieving their destination before the onset of winter (and starvation). Roughly half a million people passed this way between 1836 and 1869; most of them made it, but thousands did not.

From Wheatland, we drove south to the true cowboy outposts of Cheyenne and Fort Laramie; lapped up the mountain scenery of the US-34 scenic drive; and marvelled at Wind River Canyon, gateway to Thermopolis and its extensive thermal springs.

Even better, looking at the map, we saw we were only 150 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park , just across the border of Colorado , and we set forth in Nippy to get up close and personal with the Rockies.

We had already encountered them in Glacier, but this was different. Surrounded by peaks reaching 14,000 feet, our WPMs (Wows Per Minute – trademark pending) reached new heights as we goggled at a 360-degree vista of mountain splendour. The scenic drive up Cache La Poudre Scenic Byway served as a warm-up to the main event, taking US-34 into the National Park, where arriving in Estes Park brought the full majesty into play.

A solitary moose crossed our path, grazing casually on lake vegetation, a glorious symbol of nature’s munificence

Trail Ridge Road took that lofty vision and ran with it, highlighting why it was designated an All-American Road in 1996. Here, the road touched 12,000 feet above sea level, an elevation beyond the tree line and with views in every direction that staggered the mind. As we descended back to a mere 8,000 feet, a solitary moose crossed our path, grazing casually on lake vegetation, a glorious symbol of nature’s munificence.

If we thought this part of the world had delivered all the scenic wonders it could offer, we found more as we headed west to Green River back in Wyoming. In the shadow of the imposing Castle Rock and the edge of the high plains Red Desert, this city was the starting point for explorer John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition to the Grand Canyon. More importantly, it offered the Flaming Gorge – Green River All American Road , 45 miles of zig-zagging roller-coaster that continued into Utah and the Uinta Mountains.

Halfway through what actually turned out to be a grand 154-mile round-trip, we arrived unexpectedly at Red Canyon Overlook, an improbably precipitous point perched 1,631ft above the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, and affording views halfway to forever.

We had started out in the high desert, populated by a mass of hardy sagebrush and sunflowers, and graduated through a jumbled mass of hogbacks, bowls, ridges, cuestas and ancient deep river canyons to the high-altitude pine forest of the Red Canyon.

The wildlife was equally impressive, from sage-grouse and wild horses to mule deer and the seemingly ever-present pronghorn antelope.

It challenged our knowledge of geologic features and understanding of the ages-old terraforming powers of wind, water and frost. But, best of all, it was utterly untouched by any human activity or degradation, a pristine, untroubled landscape that bordered on the holy.

As we rolled westward along I-80 towards Idaho, we were left with a deeply-ingrained sense of Wyoming’s essential vastness, the big-sky attributes of horizons that filled our windscreen and more besides; a truly magical vista.

It was utterly untouched by any human activity or degradation, a pristine, untroubled landscape that bordered on the holy

The lone somber note was provided by repeated sightings of the Sand Creek Massacre Trail , another heartbreaking story of brutality by the US Army in attacking a peaceful camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho in 1864, slaughtering men, women and children. The Trail reflects the 600-mile journey of the survivors. It took until 1990 for the government to issue an official apology for the 19th century bloodbath, and until 2000 for the National Historic Site to be created.

For a while, we trundled along in silence, pursued by memories of a 159-year-old outrage. To this day, it is the only National Historic Site with the word “massacre” in it. And that’s a start.

Next stops: Idaho and Utah...

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• When filling up at a petrol station, make sure you can get OUT of the station as well as in. RVs don’t fit in some spaces and you must check them out before filling up.

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Some Yellowstone National Park roads are scheduled to open on Saturday

This story is part of our new Quick Hits series. This series will bring you breaking news and short updates from throughout the state.

On Saturday some roads in Yellowstone National Park will open for the summer season.

Weather permitting, visitors can drive from the West and North entrances to Old Faithful as well as from Norris Junction to Canyon Village.

The South entrance near Jackson Hole and the East entrance near Cody are anticipated to open in early May.

Park officials recommend checking the road conditions online before visiting the park as conditions can change quickly.

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Colorado braces for snow: Skiers delight but slippery roads ahead

Travelers heading from the High Plains to the Colorado mountains should be prepared for slushy roads and delays as snow falls in portions of Colorado and Wyoming. A foot or so may pile up over the mountains.

By Alex Sosnowski , AccuWeather senior meteorologist

Published Apr 18, 2024 11:38 AM PDT | Updated Apr 19, 2024 8:48 AM PDT

Snow is headed for Colorado. As the setup from Friday to Saturday will demonstrate, a major storm is unnecessary for a significant accumulation in the Rockies. Enough snow will fall to delight snow sports enthusiasts but make for slippery travel over the mountains. There's a chance roads could get dicey in part of the Denver metro area as well, AccuWeather meteorologists say.

The snow will unfold as an area of high pressure slides southeastward across the Great Plains. As the pressure rises, it will create a northeasterly flow of air that will literally climb thousands of feet from the Plains to the Colorado Front Range. As this air ascends, it will cool, and moisture will condense, releasing some rain at first but then a change to snow.

Several inches to a foot of snow will fall on parts of the northern and central Rockies in Colorado from late Friday to early Saturday. A few inches of snow will also extend out to the foothills west of Denver and other metro areas along the Interstate 25 corridor of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming.

"Anyone traveling from the High Plains to the mountains early Saturday morning for a weekend getaway could encounter slippery roads and travel delays," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski said. This includes travel along portions of I-70 and I-80.

Even though this flowering tree is ready for spring, winter still lingers as weather quickly changed with a dusting of snowfall in Larimer County, Colorado, on April 16.

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Downtown Denver will likely pick up a general 1-3 inches of snow, mainly on non-paved surfaces late Friday night to Saturday morning.

Farther to the north, in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, a coating to an inch or two of slushy snow will fall with locally higher amounts possible.

Travel along much of the I-25 corridor will be wet to slushy, but there will be some exceptions.

"A narrow band of heavier snow may extend eastward from the mountains to the foothills and the Colorado Plains," Pydynowski said. "It is possible this band could extend across part of the Denver metro area."

Areas made wet by the slushy snow and natural melting during the day Saturday will freeze Saturday night.

By Sunday afternoon, much warmer conditions will build over the region, with any leftover snow prone to rapid melting. Temperatures are forecast to surge well into the 60s in Denver, Cheyenne and Fort Collins. Widespread highs in the 70s are in store for Monday as warm air building west of the Rockies expands eastward.

Farther south, only a small slushy accumulation seems likely in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from late Friday night to Saturday morning.

Snow is not uncommon during April along the High Plains, Foothills and Rockies. Denver, which is about a mile above sea level, historically averages about 9 inches of snow in April, according to the National Weather Service. Some years even bring a bit of snow in May, when the historical average is 1-2 inches. Denver tends to receive more snow in the spring than it does during the middle of the winter.

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