GPT Photo of the Week
Hiking on another planet? Nope. Scouting new trail in Toadstool Geologic Park.
GPT Photo of the Week
On the open prairie near toadstool.
GPT Photo of the Week
Near Toadstool Geologic Park in western Nebraska is a lonely landscape of dry, cracked earth where even grasses have a hard time in the shifting clays.
GPT – Photo of the Week
One of my favorite spots along the trail. This is deep in the badlands on the Bison Trail between Toadstool Geologic Park and Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed, Nebraska.
New Top Ten!
It’s been almost five years since I posted the “Top Ten Places to See on the Great Plains Trail,” and while some things are going to remain the same, a lot has changed as far as routing and highlights are concerned. When I posted that first list, the Great Plains Trail project was in its […]
The Journey – Part Four
Toadstool is an amazing place. I’ve now been there enough times in the last few years that I’m starting to get to know it pretty well, I think. To the north of the campground, there are a series of imposing badlands, and then it starts to peter out and becomes just rolling grasslands about a […]
The Journey – Part Three
From Fort Robinson we were faced with a 26 mile trek all the way to Toadstool Geologic Park, which is part of Oglala National Grassland. So on the day before, we took a “day off” to do some things in town, and also shortened our trek about three miles by taking the very pleasant White […]
The GPT – New Section of Trail – “Oglala Gap”
Happy Trails!: Great Plains Trail Alliance is proud to announce the next section of what will become the GPT. Our goal is to roll out as many of these sections as we can until the entire length of the GPT is complete. This will take some time, and the process will likely start slowly and then […]
New Trail Section – Coming Soon!
There’s a place in western Nebraska that I have come to love. It’s in Oglala National Grassland and it’s simply beautiful. Great Plains Trail Alliance will be making a return visit to this area next week to route our next section of trail that will connect our existing (and our first) section of trail named, […]
The GPT – Our First Section of Trail – “Fort Toad”
Happy Trails!: Great Plains Trail Alliance is proud to announce our first section of what will become the GPT. Our goal is to roll out as many of these sections as we can until the entire length of the GPT is complete. This will take some time, and the process will likely start slowly and […]
Oglala and Buffalo Gap National Grasslands
Today’s featured National Grasslands are Oglala in Nebraska and Buffalo Gap in South Dakota. These are perhaps my favorite in that I find them endlessly fascinating with stunning scenery. They remain sparsely popualated with several towns that could qualify as ghost towns or nearly ghost towns. They are full of enticing hills, dramatic buttes, and […]
Roadside Attractions Part II
This is the next installment of the scouting mission for the GPT. In the near future, I will provide much more detailed information on what I have found, but for now, it must be said that if you see a few extra holes in the moon tonight, it’s because I shot it . . . […]
