HOW Day 16
Rawlins, Wyoming to Encampment, Wyoming.
We started south out of Rawlins, WY on I-80. This track follows the 19th-century Overland Trail as it traverses low-lying ranchlands, pastoral meadows, wooded foothills and a beautiful valley. We saw some of the West’s last original log structures ... bygone homesteads, barns and outbuildings of hand-hewn logs.
It is hunting season so we did come across a number of other vehicles on the trail.
One of the highlights of the day was riding in the Medicine Bow National Forest. The fall colors were amazing and we stopped and took videos and photos in the popular tree tunnel nicknamed “Aspen Alley”.
We finished our short 132 mile day in the town of Encampment, Wy which has a population of approximately 500 year-round residents. It rests at the base of the Sierra Madres, and at the turn of the twentieth century, was a booming center of copper mining and smelting. A sharp drop in copper prices and disastrous fires drove the mining company into bankruptcy.
Although closed, we also visited (from outside), the Grand Encampment Museum. It highlights the copper mining, ranching, logging history in the area. It includes over 15 historic buildings and thousands of interesting objects.
In the late afternoon we just sat outside our rooms and watched the MotoGP race.
Make Life a Ride !
Watching MotoGP in Encampment, WY
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