Monday, July 07, 2003

Here's the response I got from an email I sent: The furnishings are beds and a private bathroom (shower, toilet, and sink). The usual desk-dresser unit and a small chair. No cabins have refrigerators. All linens (towels, sheets, blankets) are provided. There are no fire pits outside the cabins. They don't allow cooking inside the cabins.

The place we're staying at has a dining room, cafeteria, and a deli. Other eating places around the park, and there are 49 picnic areas in the park. Fires are permitted only in picnic areas with fire grates. There are fire grates in the following picnic areas: Bridge Bay, Cascade Lake Trail, East Lot (Old Faithful Area), Grant Village, Nez Perce, Norris Meadows, Snake River, Spring Creek and Yellowstone River. Stoves may be utilized for meal preparation in any picnic area.

I was thinking I'd take all day Thursday off, and then we could see stuff in the Black Hills and Devil's Tower on the way out there, and stay in Gillette. Our cabin rental doesn't start until Friday night, so we would still need someplace to stay that first night. If we want to we could drive straight back, but if we do drive for two days, I think we should get a ways past the Black Hills.

I think we should bring a cooler, and get the food to put in it out there (perishables anyways). I agree that we wouldn't need all the room in a huge vehicle. So what do we suggest to take for a vehicle?