Truckin` Features
Get Lost in America is all about what we call “Truckin` Features”. We have lived our lives on the road, trail or river for over sixty years now with out any real regrets.
Fly Fishing Yankee Jim Canyon on the Yellowstone River Yankee Jim Canyon is a stretch of the Yellowstone River unlike any other outside of Yellowstone National Park. Characterized by a steep canyon, large boulders, and deep holes – Yankee Jim Canyon is a stretch that affords more solitude, more adrenaline, and some great fishing. At […]
West Thumb Yellowstone National Park and a Hike to Duck Lake Once through the West Yellowstone gate on your way to Yellowstone’s West Thumb you have rough 48 miles or an hour and half drive. There are many side trips on the way down to West Thumb Geyser Basin. Such as Old Faith Lodge and […]
West Yellowstone to Lightning Lake Trail Head Get there is as beautiful as the hike. Take US-287 / US-191 north out of West Yellowstone, Montana. Seven mile out of West Yellowstone US-287 turns to the west, left. Stay on US-287 for twenty miles to Beaver Creek Road (Forest Service RD. 985). There is a […]
Cabin Creek Trail Historic Yellowstone Country Began our hike at the Cabin Creek Scrap looking for the trailhead. Cabin Creek Scrap is on the North Shore of Hebgen Lake where the shore dropped twenty one feet. Scrape is located on the east shore of Cabin Creek, the Red Rock Fault dropped twenty one feet creating […]
How Was Quake Lake Formed? The Night the Earth Shook August 17, 1959 at 11:37 PM a lake was formed and twenty eight people lost their lives. There were 250 people in the valley when the 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocked the valley. Hebgen Lake tilted cracking the dam and the side Sheep Mountain slides across […]
Delta to Leadville, Colorado a Spring Drive On a late March morning took a drive from Delta, Colorado through Leadville by way of Carbondale, Glennwood Springs, over Tennessee Pass and on through Leadville. There are thirty, nine minute video documenting the voyage through the countryside. To watch the complete play list visit: Delta to Leadville