Double rainbow in Yellowstone National Park. 🌈🌈
Travel
Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.
Yellowstone 2020 Index
RV spots: 5
Vehicles rented: 2
Miles driven: 2,721 on the RV
Total cost of gasoline: $774.03
Pictures taken: 1,313
Times dumping tanks: 5
National Parks visited: 3
National Monuments visited: 1
Number of cities visited: 5
Number of fish caught: 4
Number of bears sighted: 1
See the Yellowstone 2020 Collection for all content from this trip.
Most terrifying thing about renting the RV? Taking it to the truck wash before returning it and navigating this shockingly small entry! Should have brought a helper. Only a few inches on every side. 😬
Yellowstone Log: Day 13, Thursday
- Long drive home!
- Go through Mankato and have pizza at Dino’s Pizzeria!
- Arrive home 7:00pm. 2 hours to empty out RV, put stuff away, and clean out interior.
- Return the RV tomorrow morning!
Today is our final stretch with a 593 mile drive back to Minneapolis! We’ve had an awesome Yellowstone RV trip! 🙌
Yellowstone Log: Day 12, Wednesday
Weather: Cool morning. Feels like rain.
- Mt. Rushmore
- Crazy horse
- Chuck wagon dinner
Family selfie at Mt. Rushmore!
We pulled into the Palmer Gulch KOA last night and got setup. Checking it out this morning and this is easily the fanciest KOA I’ve seen. They say it’s one of the largest in the country.
Enjoyed a beautiful drive through the Shoshone National Forest today on our way from Jackson, WY to Mt. Rushmore in SD.
Yellowstone Log: Day 11, Tuesday
Weather: Rain! Cool! Rain stopped after first hour or so and then pleasant driving weather
- Breakfast at Persephone.
- Visit Teton Park visitor center, cool looking building.
- Drive to Mount Rushmore KOA.
- First two hours of drive really pretty!