Exploring Dubois

We've been staying in Dubois for over 2 weeks.  We've poked around in different stores, art galleries and museums and taken drives up into the hills.  It's an interesting little town.  The marketing for this town stresses the cowboy aspect ....how cowboys still ride their horses into town.  I've hardly seen a horse - let alone a cowboy riding his horse into town.  ATVs seem to be the main mode of transportation - especially up in the hills surrounding the town.

One of the many roads in our search of the
Wiggens Fork Outhouse geocache

I have already posted about our geocaching adventure to Wiggins Fork.  Another geocache adventure took us to 3 Lakes and the Glacier Trail.

Almost every where we've stopped, someone has a suggestion of a drive up into the hills we should take.  At the Bighorn Sheep Center they gave us a map to the bighorn sheep viewing areas of Whiskey Mountain - No sheep this time of year, but beautiful views.

Big Horn Sheep Center

A woman at the Dubois Museum asked if we had gone to Double Cabin or Brooks Lake - we took both suggestions.  All of these roads we end up taking are very rough unpaved roads.  They are narrow with tight, scary corners...and they are busy with traffic.  On most of these roads we thought we would be the only one on it...not!  It seemed like we were always meeting cars, trucks and RVs...but the upside is...around every corner is a  beautiful view.

River into Brooks Lake

Brooks Lake is a spectacular area.  Brooks Lake Lodge is gorgeous.  The campground is right near there.  We stopped at the bridge to grab a geocache and watched a couple fly fishing.  Very beautiful views of mountains at every turn in the road.

Double Cabin is another long rough drive, but it is also well worth it.  There are a couple of areas to camp.  We were surpised to see a large 5th wheel trailer being towed out to a campsite.  It too was a popular area for day use and camping.





We also headed up to Union Pass.  Theoretically, you could drive from Dubois to Pinedale WY by going over Union Pass...if you could stand being all shook up on the rough road.  We went up to the pass and were so surprised to see a nice year around community up there.  We kept hoping that the higher elevations would mean wildlife...we only saw a marmot and a couple of little chipmunks, but the scenery was fantastic.  There were meadows of lupine, forget-me-nots and tiny yellow flowers....small alpine ponds and spots of snow still on the ground.  The air was warm and fresh with 360 degree views.

Marmot Sunning Himself