South Bound

Just south of Yellowstone National Park is Grand Teton National Park. After looking over the list of attractions at the later, we decided the only thing it had to offer that Yellowstone did not was the Tetons. So we basically did a drive by, spending one night in the campground at The Gros Ventre Campground at the southern end of the park.
I did not get pictures of the campground, but it was standard fare for National Park campgrounds. There are no hookups but water is available and this one, as do all in the Teton Park, had flush toilets as well as a dump station. Most of the sites were on the small side (our 32' overall length fit just right in our site ) but I saw some large rigs there that did not appear to be crowded. Each site has a picnic table and fire ring and bear proof trash cans are scattered around the campground although there are no bear proof food lockers. I put Smokey Joe inside the truck as a precaution. We saw some Bison and Elk on our drive by, but while others at the Bison jam were taking pictures of the Bison, I got a few shots of the Tetons.

The next night found us at the Lewis M. Turner campground near Logan Utah. Again no pictures ( I must be getting lax ) of this Cache National Forest campground. We found large sites with small trees and underbrush between sites providing privacy. This campground also had flush toilets and water available ( I filled the tank on the way out) but had no dump station. There was also no Verizon cell service and after a week without, we were ready for some Netflix.

Somewhere around Brigham City Utah, Walmart got some of our dollars in exchange for provisions and while there I did some searching for a campground to spend a couple of internet binge days in. I pointed the truck ( and Downsized ) in the direction of Spruces Campground in the Wasatch National Forest only to find it full for the night. Fortunately, the steep winding road ( SR190 ) has numerous pull out and it seems that as long as it is not between November and March they don't care if you park there. So park we did and the next morning about 10:30 we had a campsite.

This was the nicest National Forest campground we have been in since Buck Hall in South Carolina. The difference being the lack of hook ups and a dump site at Spruces. This was not a big deal, there was water just across the road and we haven't had electric hook ups since Bucks Hall. More on that in another post. Anyway, we had 4g Verizon and T-Mobil. The T-Mobil we use for streaming video. Any plan 6 gigs and up gets Binge On which means Netflix does not use your data. I's a good deal but the coverage isn't as good as Verizon. Why am I going on about internet? Well during all the time we have been without, I have gotten behind on this blog. During the weekend we spent at Spruces, I caught up with it, six posts. Now I check coverage when looking for a campsite.

This is the only picture I took of Spruces. You can see the blacktop walk and pad. The entire campground has blacktop roads. water available and flush toilets. The staff comes in and washes the table and blows off the walk between campers. Nice place.

The work space I set up in this picture worked great until the thunderstorm came. Oh well nice while it lasted. The big yellow extension cord comes from the power inverter inside the camper. All solar all the time.

From here we are moving farther south. Staying in Utah for a while, there are after all, five National Parks in Utah. Next time I'll try not to ramble on so much. Till then, we are C & L On The Road.