September 20-21, 2023 Lander to Thermopolis , Wyoming

 High of 70, partly cloudy and scattered showers. 

Driving across Wyoming from Saratoga to Lander today. We are the Sleeping RV park in Lander for the night. Nice park.

View of Lander from the RV park tonight.  We stopped at Castle Garden Rock Art site outside of Riverton on our way through. 

There was a nice trail through the rocks. The rocks and clouds were stunning.

Two small arches.

Wild hoodoos. The rock art here is known for it's round shields. The  petroglyphs are incised in white rock in bright sunshine. They are hard to see. 

There was a ton of graffiti and gun bullet holes. The first three here are graffiti. The rest of the graffiti was names and dates. Asters, another larger arch, And some glyphs.

Glyphs. Big spire. The glyph panels were protected by cyclone fence. 

Duck cloud. Three shields and some glyphs.

This panel was impressive. There are 12 shields. Most larger than a foot across. It is  hard to see on the white rock with the bright sunlight. There were a couple more on the shadowed face. These shield had originally also been painted, but the paint has worn off. Turtle shield.

Two other shields that look like of like vultures and voles. Death bird? Square figure, thunderbird and a cat?

Another arch and hoo doos. Wild River Canyon.

A faded Welcome to Thermopolis-Stay, Play and Enjoy, The worlds largest hot spring. Sacajawea well is at the Fountain of Youth RV park we are at. The bus at Fountain of Youth RV park.

The fountain  of youth or Sacajawea spring. Frogs at the pools. 

This park is a little dumpy, the washer and dryers do not work and they make you pay for the showers with quarters- after paying a large campsite fee. But the hot pools are why we come. They are wonderful. We both spent the afternoon floating in the hot pools.