Starkly Beautiful Back Roads Drive: Rapid City, SD to Cheyenne, WY - Far Off The Interstate
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- We took the backroads and drove through the rural, beautiful country that begins in Rapid City, South Dakota and ends in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
MUSIC:
"Song Of Mirrors" by Unicorn Heads
Towns driven through:
Hot Springs, South Dakota
Edgemont, South Dakota
Lusk, Wyoming
Single, Wyoming
Torrington, Wyoming
Travel Vlog 119
just trying to imagine this without the road. must have been incredible to do this journey on horseback 100 years ago.
Imagine how the roads were made. They had to dynamite their way through rough terrain.
I did the same thing.
That's why I love reading about the Oregon Trail. I can just imagine!
I live in South Dakota and I wonder a lot of days. How did the pioneer people do it? It must have been tough.
I will take the slow paced rural life anytime.....as long as you have a food store and internet.....that's all I need.
Went to Rapid City in 1997. It was early August when we took our then new born and 4 year old with us. It was the longest stretch of highway I'd ever seen. There were no gas stations for miles and no signs of human life. Occasionally, we'd pass by a town so small its population was 10, per population signs. Once we reached Rapid City, it was busy with folks. We were tired and hungry, and it was late. We luckily found an open restaurant, and a hotel close by. The town is set up rather oddly, but it was easy to find our way around it. We saw the sights the next day. I'd never spent so much time in a vehicle in my entire life. We had to travel back to Kansas on a one week vacation to Colorado, Wyoming, and S. Dakota. The landscapes were beautiful. The mountains were higher than I'd ever known them to be. Ski resorts shut down for the summer. The air was pure, and sky's were the bluest I'd ever seen. The days were in the 70s, at night much colder. We witnessed a hail of large rock falling on our way into Jackson hole Wyoming. One car had been hit, but nobody was hurt. The ppl were friendly, and the restaurants menues had things on them I'd never seen before, like Elk, and deer, and even Bear. I ordered off a child's menu for a beef steak and grilled sweet potato..the steak was much bigger than I had expected for a child's menu. I'll never forget that trip.
Gods country
Thank you for sharing that. :)
Great story! The way you wrote so brought back memories of when I first went out that way in 1976 on a 4-H Exchange Trip and fell in love with it so thanks!
If the highs in early August at Rapid City were in the 70s, you were very lucky. Also no mention of bikers. Hmm.
Thanks for sharing that story
I've been following your travels lately and enjoy your presentation of the places you see. I know this route from Rapid to Cheyenne like the back of my hand. Thanks for filming it!
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What a great video and great music! Not even a word spoken and not needed. I love that stretch of highway from Mule Creek Junction to Lusk, WY. The Sea of Grass is quite a sight. It is a vast expanse. You captured it very well.
Thank you, David. You made my day. :)
cosign
My mom grew up west of the Mule Creek Junction on a ranch. Boarded in town in Lusk for high school . I was born in Torrington , my paternal grandparents had a u pump it gas station there.
Was home in June.
Yiu should have seen Lusk and Torrington of my childhood or even the late 60s and early 70s. They are so run down now
But still so much my heart is there.
Cheyenne the best place to stay is Little America. Amazing rooms and service!
Just found and watched this. Once again thanks for the memories of yesteryear.
I enjoyed "riding along." I currently live on the East Coast in a congested area with bumper-to-bumper traffic. How I long to just drive through wide-open spaces and not much traffic. Your journey from Rapid City to Cheyenne gave me the escape I needed, even if it was just virtual. Thanks!
Glad you watched! :)
Gonna wind up watching/listening to this video multiple times. Beautiful music. Nice editing. You’re really in a good groove. Great stuff.
Wow, thank you for the kid words, Bill!
Had a holiday from England , travelled this road from Cheyenne to Rapid City, visited Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Monument, really lovely
Thought this would help my homesickness, backfired spectacularly. It's taking all I've got not to hop in the car & drive home to the prairie
When you showed Cheyenne it reminded me of an Actor, Clint Walker,Nice video.
I love how colorful the buildings are, pretty to see orange, yellows and reds
I agree.
Good afternoon Mr.Spoda your vlog makes want to more, and your camera work, including the music is brilliant. Greatings from Germany 👍
Wow, thank you Uwe. 😀
Wyoming has been my dream state to go to, when I'm in my final days. I've been out there before and I just love small town America in places like Wyoming, Utah, north dakota, Montana. I'm born and raised just outside princeton and trenton new jersey
Lots of nostalgia for me, as I grew up southwest of Lusk a ways (like 75 miles!) Had family in Lusk, WY for a long time, and the drive betwixt Lusk and Newcastle was a drive we made several times a year for many years!
I was a railroad engineer outa Edgemont for 15 years. Fun drive from Rapid City
Thank you for sharing. I grew up in this beautiful area.
Brought back a lot of memories. I was stationed at Ellsworth AFB and often traveled to Cheyenne or Denver. Drove it again a couple years ago.
That was a wonderful nostalgia trip for me, thank you so much for this video. I've driven this route several times, back in the day. Skirting around Wyoming's desolate Thunder Basin is an amazing trip through an old American wilderness. The road less traveled, indeed.
Awesome. :)
I lived in Denver for 8 years after growing up in South Dakota. I made many trips back and forth. I have trouble thinking of US 85 as a back road.
Love the back roads. Interstates are time-saving but not nearly as interesting!
That is absolutely the truth. :)
This is the way we travel to Denver, every time!! Love it.
I have always said that the Midwest is as beautiful as any other part of the country, in its own unique way.
Another GREAT video!!! Great scenery and awesome music! Keep up the GREAT work and a MILLION subscribers will come!
Thank you for that, Robert!!
YES the best scenic route to Cheyenne. Traveled dozens of times between Hot Springs and Cheyenne to do quarterly shopping trips. 😊 Easy road trip without the boredom and traffic of US 385 to I-80 West. Glad y'all took the time to explore some of our Black Hills neighborhood and surrounding tri-state region. 😊
I already knew that was the road going towards hot springs before you even got there, took that road to hot springs more than a few times
been watching since your first video in this series. Great stuff and I'm glad the views are coming in for you guys
Thank you. :)
1942, I was two years old, my brother was a newborn, and my parents packed up from Mason City, Iowa, and moved to Aberdeen, Washington. No freeways, probably not many amenities along the road, and my baby brother was tucked up in the back window of the coop. I seem to remember them saying that my brother was only about three months old which would mean they were driving in the middle of the winter. I wish I had more details of the trip because it must’ve been horrendous.
Thanks for the memories! I took this exact route from Rapid City to Cheyenne with friends on our motorcycles. Awesome ride!
Very cool! :)
I very much enjoy your choices of music. They have been great going down the road music. The whole package is very nicely done.
Thank you. You made my day by saying that!
New to your channel. Really enjoying your work.
Awesome. 😀
Beautiful ride , thank you Spoda
Thanks, Marwan. :)
Looks a lot like 385, 20, and 71 across Nebraska, once out of Edgemont.
Out of Hot Springs, one can take 71 all the way to Colorado 14, and into Fort Collins without using any interstate, and there's some stuff to see doing that trip as well.
Been following you for, I don't know, maybe 6 months or so(?), but I'm caught up with your current videos, so I've been watching some of your old ones while I wait for updates. I just want to say, I love the music you use for these older driving only videos. Most of the ones I've seen like this have been in the Great Plains or Rocky Mountains, and I feel like it goes perfectly with the scenery out in that part of the country.
If you're ever in the area (or maybe it's there and I need to find it), I would love to see one of these driving videos from US 550 between Durango and Montrose, Colorado (aka, the Million Dollar Highway). Keep up the great work!
WILD... I just stumbled across this video today, after having made THIS EXACT SAME DRIVE on the DAY (Friday) that you posted it!
Cool!
Drove this exact route back in 2016, really enjoyed it. Thanks for bringing back pleasant memories.
I had the good fortune of being able to see the total eclipse in this area.
Love watching your drives. I live in the UK but have visited the USA over 20 times. I've driven from Washington DC to Boston in 11hrs and drove from San Fransico to Las Vegas in 12hrs. I like driving round the US.
Thank you for watching, Peter! :)
Once again, giving us an extra look at the straggling deer- a nice touch. Enjoyed tagging along.
Yeah, I couldn't believe we saw deer a second time.
Haven’t driven that route but been to RC 3X. Our camp was in Keystone near Mt Rushmore. Spent 2 summers there at that camp. Had to cross the RR tracks of 1880s train which was featured in Gunsmoke segment “Snow Train.” It was June & I built a fire in the fireplace of our cabin. Up the mountain was very cold & windy.
Been to Rushmore before they put up all the walkways & rails. Beautiful country.
My friend was in Gurnsey or Torrington which is near Lusk. We went to pick him up. His room was so small you could sit on the toilet, brush your teeth & take a bath all at the same time.
So love the wes: SD, WY & MT. Colorado didn’t do much for me except the switchbacks. Have you driven any switchbacks?
You also drove through Hawk Springs. That was the little blip of a town shortly after Torrington. If you ever make that trek again have dinner at the long branch steakhouse in Hawk Springs...its a hidden gem.
Yes, I remember Hawk Springs. It did seem calm and nice.
If you ever get a chance to drive 14a south of Spearfish SD you should take it.
8:09 I KNEW that little junction at Hawk Springs looked familiar Sure enough, I rewound and found it on Google Maps and it's the little place they fixed up on Restaurant Impossible with Robert Irvine. It's lookin' good! Can't wait until you tour Cheyenne because I lived there from 2001-2003 and loved it. I had a truck that wasn't working great then so I didn't get to explore like I'd have wanted so I'm glad to take the ride with you from Rapid! Thanks for all you do!
Awesome!
Hi Lord Spoda
I was waiting for this wonderful video. Thanks.
Thank you for watching, Rajeev!
A HAPPY place......
If you like trains, the UP museum is in the train depot downtown and there used to be a roundhouse tour at the UP yards.
25 years in Fairfield county Connecticut and the last seven in Chicago. Just moved to Sioux falls but spent 3 ms in Rapid city. There is no traffic whatsoever out here in South Dakota and the speed limit on the highways are 80 mph maximum
I love Casper
Love your videos. If you get back to Wyoming you have to go to devil's tower and ft. Laramie!!!
Nothing like driving in these areas at sunrise listening to Zeppelin.
HEY HEY MAMA LOVE THE WAY YOU MOOOVE!
Beautiful 😍
America the beautiful.
awesome roadtrip
Just wanted to say west is not as pretty as east US. Also Spoda I love the jazz music 🎼 you put to your videos. Thank you for the road trips love them
I got pulled over by the police driving through Torrington. I was trying to go from St. Louis all the way to Casper, WY in one day. I remember the policeman said "if you drive that way through some of these small towns in Wyoming you're asking for trouble. He wrote out only a warning though. He was right--I wasn't watching the speed as I drove into the town. That was at least 20 years ago.
Cool story. :)
So looks like Wyoming has yet to discover the benefits of the "Defund the Police" movement. Give it a little time...
It needs some Bison!! 🦬 The American 🇺🇸 prairie just doesn’t look the same without them. This video is a perfect illustration of that. Still cool 😎 in it’s own way with the vast wilderness!
Still learning those BPM drops on the music and video?
Liked the travideo👍
Purdy country
Montana is on my bucket list
I drove this route except I went from Cheyenne to Rapid City.
Do you realize you probably passed by a dozen nuclear missile silos without even knowing they were there? Lots of them in that area, but they don't exactly advertise their presence.
I wish you had added the state when you mentioned the towns. I’m not familiar with those little towns in what state they’re in.
You skipped the best outhouse at Mule Creek Junction.
successfully avoided going into Nebraska.. lol
But if he hadn't, he would have seen some great scenery in the western part. Plus, he was just there a short time ago.
Edgemont looks like Detroit. Lot of flat nothingness between towns.
Indian country!
Custer?
Barely knew her.
What? No homeless encampments!?👎 What the f###$ the world coming to?!👺
Would be better with out music
Make your own channel then.
You go to some really interesting places and, for the most part, your presentation is great. But the graffiti, trash cans in alleys and dive bars, I always end up terminating your videos. They're just plain butt ugly, and I don't need to see them.
The music junked another video 👎👎👎👎💩💩😬
Poor quality footage.
Enjoy your videos, however, you go through them so fast without taking time to let the viewers to look around. So I am unsubscribing.
LOL.
We won't miss you . maybe the kind maker of these great clips .. please play them off at half speed it will last look. Longer..
𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺 😂🥰️
Good Beatle song, "On My Way Home":)
Nice comment Tasos! :)