Our Montana Goes to Montana...

Our campsite and views

One of Jack's Bucket List items was visiting the Little Bighorn National Monument and Battlefield so we headed north when we left Denver. Our first stop was an overnight in Douglas Wyoming. The Douglas KOA was very peaceful, the staff very friendly and we had a nice long gravel pull thru and did not have to unhook the truck. Our surroundings were pretty and our only neighbors were horses.

When we drove southwest through Wyoming in 2014 I was unimpressed with the landscape. This time, driving in a north, northwest direction, I enjoyed the scenery.



The next morning we headed to Montana. Our destination was Garryowen, MT - the 7th Ranch RV Park, just minutes from the Battlefield. The landscape through Montana is beautiful and the views from our campsite were gorgeous. It's easy to see why Montana is known as Big Sky Country. Oh, and I added another state to my map!

Our Montana in Montana!

7th Ranch RV Park is on a hill with all gravel pull-thrus and, again, very nice people running it. You even get a free ice cream upon check-in! They gave us a super site at the top of the hill. It was a bit of a challenge to level the RV but I could have sat and looked at those views all day.

During check-in the manager was giving us information and telling us how to get to the Battlefield. When he finished, I asked him how to get to town. He gave me a quizzical look and said, "Town? Well, there's a Post Office." We Googled Garryowen after we were set up and discovered its population is two!!! We were in the middle of nowhere!

The town of Garryowen is on the Crow Nation reservation. There is a Trading Post and Cafe at the entrance to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Park. We ate at the Cafe twice, I tried an Indian Fry Bread Taco and it was good!

Jack spent two days exploring the Park and the Battlefield where Custer fell as well as Reno Hill. Jack is our history buff and he'll write a separate post with photos about visiting Little Big Horn.

One afternoon we drove to Hardin, twenty miles west, and visited the Big Horn County Historical Museum. Lots of Native American history and some great photos of the Crow and Cheyenne people...will post photos in my next post.

After the museum, we had some burgers at the Three Brothers Bistro, rated the number one restaurant in Hardin by Trip Advisor...out of about four restaurants if you don't count the fast food spots!

I wouldn't want to do it all the time but, for four days, I really enjoyed being in the middle of nowhere!