Cody, WY - Heart Mountain Relocation Center,Buffalo Bill Center of the West & Corbett Dam

It was time to move to another campground in order to extend our stay in Cody, Wyoming.  On July 14th we set up camp at Cody Wyoming Trout Ranch Campground just 5 miles north of Cody on Highway 14.  I was really looking forward to doing a little fishing at this campground but it was like fishing in a gold fish bowl.  So I watched some little boys cast their lines in front of the trout and get excited as the fish swam towards their bait. 

We were a bit surprised when we went out to dinner and saw New Orleans French Quarter décor  and a LSU jersey hanging on the wall in The Rib & Chop House Restaurant.  The food was good and the décor made us feel right at home.

Buffalo Bill Center of the West is a very impressive museum. It is 5 museums for the price of one. The gun collection in this museum is largest collection we have ever seen.  The Draper Natural History Museum had fabulous exhibits of Greater Yellowstone wildlife and ecology.  Plenty to see so allow enough time to enjoy all that is has to offer.

Getting out and driving around the area is one of our favorite things to do.  You just never know what you will discover when you get away from the main tourist attractions.  Driving north on Highway 14 we saw signs that lead us to Heart Mountain Relocation Center.  After the bombing of Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt authorized confinement centers be built and uprooted over 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry.  At the base of Heart Mountain this confinement center had a community of 11,000 people most of whom were American citizens.  These people were victims of wartime hysteria.  The history of  this site was very interesting.

As we continued to take turns off the main highway we came up to Corbett Dam.  The dam diverts water from Shoshone River into the Corbett Tunnel a 3 1/2 mile long concrete structure.  The tunnel transports water into the Garland Canal which is an irrigation artery.  Nearly 50,800 acres are irrigated by waters carried through this system.

As the sun was going down we saw so many deer in the fields near the dam.  The skies were gorgeous. 

This is a new campground in the area.

No shade trees and the wind blows all the time so putting the awning out was not an option.

These teepees can be rented for the night.

The Rib & Chop House Restaurant

Purple and gold showing in Cody.  Geaux Tigers!

William F. Cody aka "Buffalo Bill"

The Cody Firearm Museum houses the most comprehensive collection of American firearms in the world.  Over 7000 firearms are in this collection.

Pretty cool door handle inside the museum.

Theodore Roosevelt's saddle he owned and used on his ranch in the Dakota Badlands.

They tell you to stand still if you encounter a bear, well here it is I am standing still.

We saw several of these on Beartooth Pass Highway.



Deer were seen everywhere in Cody.



Heart Mountain Relocation Center - chimney was part of the hospital complex

WWII - Japanese American Confinement Site

Heart Mountain

Beautiful skies

Corbett Dam

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Wyoming Sunset

So well said.