After I left Trail Ridge and Rocky Mountain National Park I took US Route 34 to I-25/US 87 north into Wyoming. My road ahead was in Custer in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This blog is a continuation of Part 2 which covered the Trail Ridge Road of Rocky Mountain National Park. Part 2; Trail Ridge Road/US Route 34 and Rocky Mountain National Park I continued north on I-25/US 87 which briefly picked up US 85 in Cheyanne. North of Cheyanne the routing of I-25/US 87 was undergoing heavy construction which had traffic onto the shoulder for a solid 20 miles. Eventually I made it past the construction and pulled off the Interstate onto US 26 in Platte County where I then headed eastbound. My next turn was north on WY 270 so I could check the ghost towns of Hartville, Sunrise and Manville. Along WY 270 there is a junction for the small 1.1 mile WY 318. WY 318 heads east from WY 270 through Hartville to the former company town of Sunrise. Bef...
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