First visit after reading a lot of glowing reviews of their mountain bike trails and how it’s the next Curt Gowdy State Park. Plus, Fred’s driven passed the exit for it a million times on the way to / from South Dakota.
While there are a lot of camping sites, Twin Moon Campground promised to have the most shelter from the wind (it IS Wyoming and they have a lot of wind farms there for a very good reason) and had some bike trails running right through it.
We found a nice sheltered spot with some decent privacy. Campground was not crowded. A short walk to a very nice view.
Our site.
Words to live by… Ok, it’s from a quirky podcast called “Welcome to NightVale” but still!
Definitely getting tired of cold and windy camping trips but I will say this, our site was, indeed, sheltered. We could hear the wind blowing but for us it resulted in that lovely rustling tree tops sound and a slight breeze blowing through the site. Nice.
Saturday morning we were up and ready to go biking. We kept hearing these ‘boom!’ off in the distance but figured, “We’re in Wyoming… mining?” Sound died down around 4pm and then a squad of these guys flew over our site around 5pm… Uh oh…
Guess what?! The somewhat nearby military training area was having a week-long, multi-state exercise with lots of heavy duty military equipment. Those booms were target practice… Apparently one of the exercises was night bombing. Those booms! went on all night. Uggghhhhhhhh. Note to self, check the “Guernsey Training Center” Facebook page for events before planning our return trip.
The good news is we had a nice ride on Saturday. Lula leads the way on the trail that went right by our camp site. We even had our own little spur right to our camper.
Had some sunshine on Sunday for our parting view. We will definitely go back in the Fall for more riding.
