![]() We gave ourselves 2 weeks for our journey and that allowed for plenty of time (4 nights) in Yellowstone. Those towns (and the annual summer celebrations that take place in them) helped to shape much of our drive to Yellowstone. I noticed that we would be near several places that Laura Ingalls Wilder lived. Once we had our final destination set and booked, it was time to look at the actual route to see how we might be able to break up the drive (or at least the drive out West, since on the way home we tend to drive straight home). We estimated driving about 5000 miles round trip and when all was said and done, we logged just over 5300 miles in 2 weeks. We knew that we were signing ourselves up for some seriously long amounts of time in the car. Yellowstone is a long long ways from the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA where we live. We booked our stay at Fishing Bridge RV Park and started to plan out the rest of our very epic road trip over the months that followed. Well, you know this girl is a GLAMPER, so of course I’d prefer a campsite with full hook-ups. Of those 5 campgrounds that take reservations, only 1 of them offers full hook-ups for campers (water/electric/sewer). Of those 12 campgrounds, only 5 take advance reservations. Yellowstone National Park has 12 campgrounds inside the park itself. That is because apparently Yellowstone campgrounds book out WELL in advance and if you want your first choice, you have to book early. When you tell people that you’re heading to Yellowstone, a typical response is, “Oh!” Then you say that you’re driving to AND camping in Yellowstone and their eyes widen and you get an emphatic, “OHHHHH!” It has been just over a year of these responses since we booked our campground in Yellowstone in late Spring 2016 for Summer 2017. We probably tossed at least a dozen ideas into the hat for consideration, but in the end we chose Yellowstone National Park. We set our sights on Disney for the fall of this year and then started to think about a possible road trip destination for the summer. We logged 5 or 6 weekend camping trips in the new rig last year and earlier this year including – Hershey, Poconos, Jersey Shore, Knoebels. We knew that it would get a lot of use at various semi-local campgrounds in the mountains or at the beach, but we also had high hopes of some longer journeys across this magnificent country of ours. Last year when we upgraded our pop-up camper to a bigger travel trailer, we vowed to do some epic road trips in the new RV.
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