Airstreamin'

Airstreamin'

Thoughts and photos from the road
11
Oct
Custer State Park

Custer State Park

Granite spires, narrow tunnels, bison, burros, and golden-hour prairie made this one easy to underestimate and hard to forget
7 min read
06
Oct
Stairs climbing through a rough limestone chamber inside Wind Cave National Park.

Wind Cave National Park

Boxwork, bison, and a breathing cave made this one of the more surprising national parks I’ve visited
7 min read
25
Sep
Eroded Pine Ridge buttes rising above a trail at Fort Robinson State Park in Nebraska.

Fort Robinson State Park

A quick stop turned into a deeper look at military history, Native conflict, and the strange buttes rising above Nebraska’s plains
6 min read
13
Aug
Nokhu Crags rising above the forested Never Summer Mountains in State Forest State Park, Colorado.

State Forest State Park

A remote mountain stay with huge campsites, rugged mountain terrain, alpine lakes, and enough space to disappear for a few days.
6 min read
08
Aug
Samantha hiking with one of the dogs on a rocky pine-forest trail near Buena Vista, Colorado.

Buena Vista, Colorado

A two-week base for the Collegiate Loop, the Sawatch Range, and a summit day on Mount Elbert
7 min read
23
Jul
Alpine lakes beneath the rugged peaks of the Snowy Range in Medicine Bow National Forest.

Medicine Bow National Forest

A quiet base at Ryan Park opened into days of alpine hiking, trail running, wildlife, and glacial terrain in Wyoming’s rugged Snowy Range
7 min read
19
Jul
Bighorn National Forest

Bighorn National Forest

Glacier-carved valleys, alpine lakes, and nearly forty miles of hiking through one of Wyoming’s quietest mountain ranges
9 min read
15
Jul
Hyalite Reservoir surrounded by evergreen forest and rugged Gallatin Range peaks near Bozeman, Montana.

Custer Gallatin National Forest

Three nights in Hyalite Canyon revealed one of our favorite campsites and a national forest we have only begun to explore
6 min read
12
Jul
Fiery orange and purple sunset behind the limestone hills of Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park in Montana.

Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park

A hot, exposed Montana state park hiding the best-balanced cave experience we’ve found yet.
6 min read
07
Jul
Passage Falls cascading through dense evergreen forest in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness near Gardiner, Montana.

Gardiner, Montana

Gardiner may be known as Yellowstone’s North Entrance, but the river, mountains, and wilderness beyond the park became the real story of our stay.
5 min read