we stayed one night in Sundance, Wyoming at the Best Western right on the edge of town
we were actually on our way to Deadwood South Dakota which is only about an hour
and a half to two hours east of Sundance
the town of Sundance is considered the Gateway to Devil's Tower the town is
located in the northeast corner of Wyoming and is on the western end of the
Black Hills and sits right on highway 90 and during the summer months the town
comes alive with tourists on their way to Devil's Tower or Yellowstone National
Park Devil's Tower National Monument is merely a day trip from Sundance if
you decide to stay in Sundance there are several motels and
bed-and-breakfast along with one campground and you will also find some
nice dining
but Sundance's biggest claim to fame is Harry longabaugh better known as the
Sundance Kid
if you're not familiar with the Sundance Kid he rode with Butch Cassidy and they
were notorious bank and train robbers of the late 1800s in 1887 Harry came to
Sundance he was dubbed the Sundance Kid after spending 18 months in the Sundance
jail for horse theft it's even said that he escaped that jail with another inmate
in 1888 but was captured and returned to the jail by the time the Sundance Kid
was released from the jail he was 21 years old and that's about the time that
he met Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch
in the town of Sundance you will find a great life-size bronze statue of the
Sundance Kid where you can take a photo sitting right next to him on horn saloon
this was voted one of the best restaurants in town so I'm looking
forward to trying it out for the film festival isn't Sundance Wyoming it's
actually in Park City Utah we got up very early the next morning and it just
happened to be Thanksgiving we decided to visit Devils Tower Monument which was
not that long of a drive from the Sundance on our drive we didn't see
another soul the whole way there it was really creepy even when we arrived the
only thing we could find were white-tailed deer hundreds of them we
had the whole Monument to ourselves it was quite wonderful
while we were at Devil's Tower we decided we were gonna check out the KOA
Campground which literally sits beneath the tower the view is spectacular from
the campground the campground itself this part of the historic camp-stool
ranch which has been in the dress kill family for eight generations during the
season which is summer the campground has nightly hay rides through the
historic camp-stool Ranch which is one of the oldest ranches in Wyoming the
movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was filmed on site in 1976 and it is
shown nightly at the campground the campground opens in mid-may and closes
in mid-october
if you're looking for more camping the keyhole reservoir is just located 23
miles west of Sundance on the shores of the keyhole State Park you will find
everything from camping sites to cabins and you can get reservations through
reserve America while in Sundance make sure to visit the vore buffalo jump it
is just 12 miles east of Sundance right on i-90 the lure Buffalo jump is the
site of a late prehistoric Plains Indian bison jump the Native Americans would
Stampede the Buffalo into a sinkhole then harvest the meat and hides do check
when the boar jump is open we were there in mid fall and were very disappointed
to find it was closed
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