Bison on the hill

After a busy day on Saturday preparing to leave Denver after a stay of two weeks, we headed north toward Wyoming and eventually Grand Teton National Park. As has been the pattern of our driving days, it was overcast, sometimes raining, and colder than average.

Almost to the border of Wyoming, traveling I-25 north, we could see, off in the distance, the silhouette of a bison on a hill.

Close-up of these interesting rock formations.

Bison on the hill - a sign that we have reached Wyoming.

We soon received the official highway greeting.

Since we didn't have a current Wyoming map, we stopped at the Welcome Center at exit #4.

I think that this is the most impressive Welcome Center we have encountered.

This Frontiersman beckoned us in.

There were numerous displays - this one of the skeleton of a Wooly Mammoth.

Apparently Butch Cassidy inhabited these parts and there was the opportunity to pose in jail with him.  The phrase at the top reads, "Running from the Law".

It was just a few miles from the border to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where we turned west onto I-80. We have driven this road west before, but never towing. It turns out that the route is a fairly steady climb to Telephone Pass, elevation 8640', the highest point on transcontinental I-80. From the summit there was a 5% grade, that we drove in 4th gear in a blinding rainstorm, down into Laramie where we are spending the night.