Yellowstone to Willard Bay State Park Utah

Wednesday, September 27th

On the road by 8:45 am. We were both anxious to get a move on as we have a bit longer drive than we like to do today. Destination Willard Bay State Park, close to Ogden, Utah. When we left Baker's Hole Campground at West Yellowstone it was -4C, the coldest morning yet. When we arrived at Willard Bay it was 20C ... from long johns and scarves to shorts. Freya does not know whether to grow hair or shed!

We stopped only once after 2 hours to have a stretch and a bite to eat and then back onto the road again. Ray and I were in 3 states today!!! Montana, Idaho and Utah. Lots of farming, cows and horses. Here are a few pictures of our travels today. The first picture I took out of the motorhome window ... as close to the Grand Teton's I was going to get!

 Fall colours are showing up down here now.

Lots of snow on the top of the mountains from the storm that we missed a few days ago.

Getting close to the Utah border.

 We noticed that the roadsides in Idaho are pretty clean of garbage but not as good as Montana. Highways were in great shape though with a little road construction that did not slow us down very much.

Arrived at the park early afternoon and quickly set up. $30/night for full-hookup so I took advantage and did about 5 loads of laundry in the coach. It would cost me that at a laundromat anyways.

While I was setting up and getting the laundry going, there were some very large bangs quite near us. Ray went out to investigate as it almost sounded like gunshots. Freya certainly was not impressed. It turned out the parks guys were putting compressed gas into gopher holes and blowing them up. Who knew we were in "Caddy Shack"! Ray did not get a picture though as they were packing up.

While the washer was running we took a short drive to investigate the rest of the park. I am sure it is very busy here in the summer. Ray got some great pictures. He even went out at sunset for a few more shots just down the road from where we were parked.

Eagle Beach

Pelican Beach

Willard Bay Marina

We set ourselves up in the sunshine for an hour or so before heading inside as the mosquitos came out in droves.... there was a sign coming into the park that they spray mosquitos at night!

After dinner, Ray went out for a few more pictures ... stunning.

A longer but satisfying day. We thought about staying one more day to see the Bear River Migratory Bird Santuary about 30 minutes away for great shots of birds and fall colours but this mosquito thing is too much so we will carry on tomorrow to Yuba Lake State Park.