Trip Report – Week 4 of 4 – Boysen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Hideout, and The Badlands. Then home.

Continued fro Trip report Week 3.5 of 4: here

The 3 B’s – Boysen State Park, Boondocking at Butch Cassidy’s hideout, and then bring on The Badlands...please.

We found a great campground at Boysen State Park that was right next to the great fishing in Wind River Canyon. We were there just a couple of nights since the fishing license there is kind of expensive. We needed to plan the perfect fishing day. We had to do some bouldering to get to the river in all spots, but it was worth it. The canyon was gorgeous. So were the fish.

On the hillside across the river, there was a train track ledge going through the canyon. In the evening a train came through with lights on. Kind of creepy and neat to watch. I felt like I was in a wild, wild west movie!

Speaking of the Wild, Wild West, we decided to drive to Kaycee, Wyoming to drive into the Willow Creek Ranch 30 miles to get to the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid’s hideout. There was a campground but it was too hard to get to it with the trailer in tow. So we boondocked just outside their hideout. It was secluded with beautiful 360º views. We were tired that day and decided to open the back trailer doors and take a little nap. The sun was warm and the breeze was cool. So relaxing.

The next day we left and headed to the Badlands. We found a great boondocking site and parked right on the edge. We set up our chairs and set up the stove to cook dinner. We couldn’t have a fire there. All of a sudden we looked to our right and a herd of Big Horned Sheep were make their way from the grasslands to the cliffs of the Badlands for protection that night. We sat and watched what they did closely. It was neat. They had a procedure for this trek. There was a frontman that was a lookout and stood at the cliff entrance as a guide. For the other large sheep and their lambs. There was also a large male sheep coming in from the back as extra security. The frontman was getting mad because the herd wasn’t hurrying fast enough to go down the cliffs. It just sat down and waited an hour for them to finish grazing.

The next day was a big drive to Minnesota. We stayed at Kilen Woods State Park. The campgrounds were really clean and the grass was so think at the capsite it was like a green carpet. Great showers too! We had a huge fire, since we had to use up all the firewood before leaving the next day for home.

The trek home was sad but, we wanted to see our cats. We dropped the trailer off at our storage spot and it felt weird to separate from our trailer since it was basically part of us for the past month.

We are planning a new trip for 2021 September – October right now and made some new updagrades to the trailer in the past few weeks. Look for the trailer work post next and MORE ADVENTURES!