{"id":369,"date":"2021-06-15T00:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:07:07","slug":"red-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/excellent\/red-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Lodge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Red Lodge is located at the Northeast corner of Yellowstone in Montana. A old western town turned coal mining town that almost fell into decay before being revitalized as a outdoor destination like so many mountain towns. I found it still retained it’s charm. It is very popular with Bikers looking to ride Beartooth Pass (more later on that!).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Carbon County Court House in Red Lodge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We spent our first day provisioning and touring the town. The KOA was nice – close by to town but not too close. They had a very cool Airstream 345 class A motorhome out front. These were built in the 1980s for a short period of time. As an interesting bit of relevant history – one of them was used to ferry the Space Shuttle astronauts to the Space Shuttle before take off and was aptly named the Astrobus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lake Fork Trail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The second day we got up early to beat the heat and headed for Beartooth Passs. I found a nice hike alongside a river that Jake and I did – 7 miles round trip! It followed the river up to a small pond where we had some brunch and headed back before it got too hot.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lake Fork Trail near Beartooth Pass Panorama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The river was full and flowing quickly and there was not a cloud in the sky. The river had sections with tumultuous cascading water falls. Most excellent!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jake & Eddie near Beartooth Pass Wyoming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Lake Fork Trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It was a fantastic hike and I was beat at the end after a week or so of sitting and driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beartooth Pass <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After the hike we headed up BeartoothPass. I did not quite realize what it was until I got into it. At nearly 11,000 feet it’s way above tree line and a windy, narrow road full of traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Beartooth Pass Summit Looking Towards Yellowstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Apparently this is a favorite road for Bikers to ride. We saw a lot on the road and a lot of signs in town advertising to that crowd. I can see why, what a fantastic road!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We headed back to wrap up curdy and get ready for our two-day road trip into Yellowstone and the Tetons!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The first two days in Red Lodge we explored the local area and did a great hike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21,29,7],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excellent","tag-excellent-adventure","tag-montana","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/red-lodge-sticker.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}