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Rifle Falls – Vacation Ends

Rifle Falls State Park was our last camping destination. The bad thing about vacations is that you have to go home. Well, may-be that’s just a bad thing about short vacations, but if it is, then we’ve never been on a long vacation. Heading home means your vacation is over and we were in heading home mode.

After overnighting at Flaming Gorge, we had to drop south to Vernal, Utah before heading east and once we got into Colorado there were all sorts of little roads we had to take before we made our way to Rifle.  I think you could say that we wended, we wended our way to Rifle, CO. The falls are really pretty, the state park staff was very friendly and we decided that this was the nicest campsite of the trip.

Carts for tents, bags and food
An empty campsite
Just below the falls
Our Campsite
From the side
Through the falls
The cliff underneath the falls
Rifle Falls one more time

 

Bridge Bay

Just around the corner of Yellowstone Lake from no-Fishing Bridge is Bridge Bay where there is a marina and campground. We stayed there – at the campground – but the marina is pretty and we went by it a few times.

In fact we felt like we won the lottery when we pulled up to our campsite. The tent only campsites were all taken and we settled for an RV/tent site. We were assigned a site on the far end of the “B” loop from the access road which turned out to be in the trees and above what we thought of as the valley of 10,000 smokes because of all the campfires we could see.

Bridge Bay is actually named for a near-by natural bridge. Near-by means an easy 2 – 3 mile round trip hike. Natural Bridge was carved out of the stone by something called freeze-thaw plucking. Say that five times fast! It can be done – but why?