The Journey – Part Five
Cows. I can’t say I have a lot of experience with them. I grew up in the suburbs, but I did spend a few weeks working on various farms in New Zealand, and I managed to learn at least one thing: Be careful around the bulls, they can be unpredictable. So it was with […]
The Journey – Part Four
Toadstool is an amazing place. I’ve now been there enough times in the last few years that I’m starting to get to know it pretty well, I think. To the north of the campground, there are a series of imposing badlands, and then it starts to peter out and becomes just rolling grasslands about a […]
The Journey – Part Three
From Fort Robinson we were faced with a 26 mile trek all the way to Toadstool Geologic Park, which is part of Oglala National Grassland. So on the day before, we took a “day off” to do some things in town, and also shortened our trek about three miles by taking the very pleasant White […]
2015 – The Year of the Great Plains!
Happy 2015 from the Great Plains Trail Alliance! We’re excited about this year because we have some projects underway that we hope will help to put the Great Plains Trail “on the map,” so to speak. I’m not going to say anything more about them right now because I’m just superstitious enough not to want […]
The Great Plains – It’s a National Treasure
The subject came up recently about how many sites of national significance the Great Plains Trail will pass through (in its currently envisioned state, which is subject to variations). For the sake of this blog post, I will consider only National Parks, National Monuments, National Forests, and National Grasslands. This leaves many other important places […]
The GPT – New Section of Trail – “Oglala Gap”
Happy Trails!: Great Plains Trail Alliance is proud to announce the next section of what will become the GPT. Our goal is to roll out as many of these sections as we can until the entire length of the GPT is complete. This will take some time, and the process will likely start slowly and then […]
New Trail Section – Coming Soon!
There’s a place in western Nebraska that I have come to love. It’s in Oglala National Grassland and it’s simply beautiful. Great Plains Trail Alliance will be making a return visit to this area next week to route our next section of trail that will connect our existing (and our first) section of trail named, […]
Oglala and Buffalo Gap National Grasslands
Today’s featured National Grasslands are Oglala in Nebraska and Buffalo Gap in South Dakota. These are perhaps my favorite in that I find them endlessly fascinating with stunning scenery. They remain sparsely popualated with several towns that could qualify as ghost towns or nearly ghost towns. They are full of enticing hills, dramatic buttes, and […]
Roadside Attractions III
Here are a few more shots from the most recent GPT scouting mission. They include places in Oglala National Grassland in Nebraska, Buffalo Gap National Grassland in South Dakota as well as a few spots in the Black Hills. Enjoy! […]
