A Recent Trip to Nebraska – Episode 3
Warning! The following photos are not from Nebraska. They are from the GPT state of Colorado! My recent trip included a side venture to CO to check out a few places outside the Pilot Trail, but still on the larger GPT. Below are shots from Castlewood Canyon State Park and the Cherry Creek Trail in […]
A Recent Trip to Nebraska- Episode 2
Cool to see Scottsbluff National Monument fixing areas with real adobe bricks! … plus a great campsite on the south side of the park with a classic Plains thunderstorm!
GPTA “board meeting” in East Glacier!
I interrupt posts on my recent trip to Nebraska to bring you the following exciting news. Two GPTA Board members, Clay Bonnyman-Evans (trail name Pony) and Luke Jordan (trail name Strider), had a brief meetup in East Glacier near the entrance to Glacier National Park. Strider is currently hiking the Pacific Northwest Trail westbound to […]
A Recent Trip to Nebraska – Episode 1
Just returned home from a productive and fun trip to western Nebraska to meet some new people and see some old friends – some of the old friends were actually old friends and some were in the form of places I had not seen for quite a while. For starters, I did some good hiking […]
On the Trail: Wind Cave National Park
About Wind Cave National Park Welcome to the third installment of our blog posts about significant geographic locations found along the Great Plains Trail. Today’s post is about Wind Cave National Park, a protected area located in the southwestern part of South Dakota, USA. It is known for its unique cavern system, which features rare […]
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
About Theodore Roosevelt National Park Welcome to blog post #2 in our series about great places to visit along the Great Plains Trail. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a national park located in western North Dakota, United States. The park covers over 70,000 acres and is named after the 26th President of the United States, […]
The American Prairie Reserve
Great Plains Trail Friends and Associates The next few GPTA blog post will feature organizations that are associated, in one way or another, with the Great Plains Trail. These are not necessarily affiliates or endorsed entities, but they all play some role in the development of our great long distance trail. The purpose of these […]
Great Plains Memories – Episode 6
From Board Member Drew Smith: Below is a link to a short but stunning video of the August 2017 solar eclipse taken by Drew at another beautiful Great Plains site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9s2mRabsmo
Great Plains Memories – Episode 5
From Board Member Bob Pahre: Far from Plain It was a photographer’s dream. Warm light streamed through the mixed prairie grasses and across our tents. The sun popped out from behind the wispy clouds with bursts of yellow, only to retreat again, leaving orange behind. As the sun settled down for the night, the oranges […]
Great Plains Memories – Episode 4
From Board Member Clay Evans: Great Plains Memory A native of Boulder, Colorado, I grew up looking west for adventure, toward the mountains. But sometime in my 30s, I began to wonder what lay to the unheralded, little-celebrated east, the Great Plains. My explorations began with driving trips, the first of which took me through […]
Great Plains Memories – Episode 3
In 2016, Luke “Strider” Jordan hiked the GPT from south to north or NOBO, which is short for northbound. Here are a few of his memories of that hike titled . . . A Sense of Place I have a unique relationship with the Great Plains. Most people only get to experience it […]
Great Plains Memories – Episode 2
From Board Member Kevin Purdy: My memories of the Great Plains Trail are neither misty nor watercolor, since both of those words imply blurry and easily washed away. There are certain events from the past thirteen years that I like to think of as indelibly etched upon my brain. Rather than belabor any one […]
