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Our routes from Yellowstone National Park through Wyoming and South Dakota, to Iowa, Illinois, Chicago, Dayton, and then home...

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Here's a birds' eye overview of our long trip home from Yellowstone National Park. Here's our route on the first day leaving Yellowstone to explore other parts of the vast West, including the Buffalo Bill Center of the West  in Cody, WY, and the  Devils Tower National Monument . And here's part of the second day after leaving Yellowstone, where we make stops to visit Mt. Rushmore National Memorial , Custer State Park , Wind Cave National Park , and then the next day to visit  Badlands National Park , and the famous  Wall Drug  which began in 1932 with free ice water (and signs everywhere pointing in its direction), and finally the incredible  Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. Here's our route from Mitchell, SD, through the Iowa cornfields with a stop to see the Amana Colonies , and then onwards to Chicago, IL, the windy city on Lake Michigan , where we can spend a full day in the city of architectural boat tours , the Art Institute of Chicago , the famed Pal

Our essential guidebooks for our trip to Yellowstone National Park

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Welcome to our Yellowstone Road Trip travel blog, showing routes to Yellowstone National Park

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Welcome to the McCabe Family Yellowstone National Park 2016 Road Trip travel blog! We leave bright and early, Saturday, June 11, 2016, and return late, Sunday, June 26, 2016.  A total of 16 days of road tripping to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Michigan's famed Upper Peninsula and the Soo Locks, in Sault Ste. Marie, then to Ashland, Wisconsin, Duluth, Minnesota, and Hibbing, Minnesota (birthplace of Bob Dylan), Fargo, North Dakota, Medora, North Dakota, and Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and on to the Little Bighorn  Battlefield  National Monument, Billings, Montana, and Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. After three days in Yellowstone and Grand Teton, we head home through Wyoming, the Great Plains and the heartland of America, with more stops at Cody, Wyoming, Devil's Tower, the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial, Wall Drug, the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, the Amana Colonies in Iowa, the sights and architecture of Chica