Riding the Casper Rail-Trail and Visiting Sacajewea

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Riding the Casper Rail-Trail and Visiting Sacajewea

After a night camping at Casper Mountain Park, we drove down the steep, serpentine mountain road to Evansville, Wyoming, and parked Blue right at the middle point of the 8.5 mile Casper Rail-Trail. We parked at a Super 8 and took to the trail which was just across the street. Our logic in parking half way was that if anything went wrong on the 8.5 mile trek (17 miles roundtrip), it wouldn’t be as far to get back to Blue. As it turned out, all went well, but with David’s recent spate of flats, we couldn’t be too careful.

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Rail Trails in Douglas & Glen Rock, Wyoming

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Rail Trails in Douglas & Glen Rock, Wyoming

The sun rose bright in a clear blue sky. The morning was cool and there was sufficient air in our bike tires. Time at last to get a taste of the GART (Great American Rail Trail). Wyoming has only about 17 miles of converted rail-to-trail bike paths, but you have to start somewhere and here we were.

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Making New Memories at Williams Fork

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Making New Memories at Williams Fork

If you read David’s last Blue View, you’ll know he hasn’t visited Williams Fork in the Arapaho National Forest since about 1965… ~55 years ago… his last visit was just before he entered the Navy as a 18-year old young recruit. I, on the other hand, had never visited this out-of-the-way, memory-making place, so when we were looking for our next campsite, it didn’t take long to make a decision. Williams Fork, it was. We consulted the National Forest website to insure that the campground was open and off we went.

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