Which way to go from Yellowstone to Seattle
Apr 27th, 2004, 04:31 AM
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Which way to go from Yellowstone to Seattle
We are hiring a camper trailer in Calgary, driving to Yellowstone in the last two weeks of September and then across to Seattle, where our friends leave us before they head back to Calgary. WE are all new to this area and would like some advice on the best route, (scenic and interesting, not necessarily the fastest)keeping in mind we only have two weeks. I hope you can give us some advise. We are from Australia so don't know the area at all.
Apr 27th, 2004, 07:00 AM
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jbtraveller,
I remember you were also going to go to Glacier. Are you still going to Glacier?
Are you hiring a travel trailer that you will tow with another vehicle or a motorhome or a truck camper? It makes a difference in how fast you will be able to travel and maybe even which roads you take.
Do you have to get back to Calagary in those two weeks or just to Seattle. I find your post very confusing.
How long are you spending in Yellowstone and Seattle?
Utahtea
I remember you were also going to go to Glacier. Are you still going to Glacier?
Are you hiring a travel trailer that you will tow with another vehicle or a motorhome or a truck camper? It makes a difference in how fast you will be able to travel and maybe even which roads you take.
Do you have to get back to Calagary in those two weeks or just to Seattle. I find your post very confusing.
How long are you spending in Yellowstone and Seattle?
Utahtea
Apr 28th, 2004, 03:14 PM
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Utahtea,We have two weeks holiday in total, we are hiring a motor home in Calgary,then driving to Yellowstone where we plan to stay for about three nights, we then plan to drive across to Seattle where we leave the camper van (our friends will be driving the van back to Calgary after this)We have about a week to do the bit across to Seattle so any suggestions would be great
Apr 28th, 2004, 04:27 PM
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I have a very big question here, which has to do with legality and whatnot.
Are the friends who are driving the van BACK to Calgary going to have the whole rental contract placed in their names!
I suggest that they do.
I also suggest that you have a written statement from the rental company that states that the rental company knows you are taking the van out of Canada.
The US border officials may give you the third degree anyhow.
As the friend, I would not want to be the person driving a vehicle that was hired with someone else's name on the rental contact.
I sense a diaster in the making.
As for the route, there is minimal choice from Yellowstone. Take a route north to either Bozemand or Livingston and then turn West on I 90 through Spokane to Seattle. You can deviate from the route if you wish, but any other route will take many hours longer.
I suppose you could go by way of Boise Idaho,but that is a long way around.
West of Spokane at a junction named Wilbur, you could deviate by heading for Grand Couleee Dam.
Are the friends who are driving the van BACK to Calgary going to have the whole rental contract placed in their names!
I suggest that they do.
I also suggest that you have a written statement from the rental company that states that the rental company knows you are taking the van out of Canada.
The US border officials may give you the third degree anyhow.
As the friend, I would not want to be the person driving a vehicle that was hired with someone else's name on the rental contact.
I sense a diaster in the making.
As for the route, there is minimal choice from Yellowstone. Take a route north to either Bozemand or Livingston and then turn West on I 90 through Spokane to Seattle. You can deviate from the route if you wish, but any other route will take many hours longer.
I suppose you could go by way of Boise Idaho,but that is a long way around.
West of Spokane at a junction named Wilbur, you could deviate by heading for Grand Couleee Dam.
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Thanks for your concern Bob, to put your mind at rest, our friends are now living in Calgary and they are renting the motor home and yes they realize they have to have a note saying they will be travelling outside of Canada.
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That does relieve me. After two grillings in two years, I worrys that someone might really get it if they were not an American with a valid passport.
I looked at the map, and I 90 is the most direct route. Once you leave Idaho, the landscape becomes that of a desert. Most people in the States don't realize that central Washington is very dry and farming is mostly dependent on irrigation.
One further deviation is this. From Grand Coulee Dam, continue to Omak and take state route 20 through the North Cascades. Route 20 intersects I 5 north of Seattle.
Another, stay on 90 to Ellensburg and then go south to Yakima and then wind your way over to Mount Ranier.
The so called scab lands south and east of Grand Coulee Dam are of interest mainly to a geologist. This area is now thought to have been devastated by a giant flood that was caused at the end of the last ice age when Lake Missoula broke through its ice dam and poured over the flats of central Washington.
The area is marked by giant ripple marks and potholes consistent with flooding, but on such a scale that geologists did not believe. One geologist pushed that theory, endured ridicule, until finally his views came to be accepted.
I guess there is nothing worse than scientists who are so steeped in traditional dogma that they cannot see alternative explanations to a set of facts. Most geologists adhered at the time to the theory of gradulism. Nothing happened quickly in geology.
This idea based itself on a catastrophe.
Well tsunamis and volcanic eruptions are certainly quick events!!
I looked at the map, and I 90 is the most direct route. Once you leave Idaho, the landscape becomes that of a desert. Most people in the States don't realize that central Washington is very dry and farming is mostly dependent on irrigation.
One further deviation is this. From Grand Coulee Dam, continue to Omak and take state route 20 through the North Cascades. Route 20 intersects I 5 north of Seattle.
Another, stay on 90 to Ellensburg and then go south to Yakima and then wind your way over to Mount Ranier.
The so called scab lands south and east of Grand Coulee Dam are of interest mainly to a geologist. This area is now thought to have been devastated by a giant flood that was caused at the end of the last ice age when Lake Missoula broke through its ice dam and poured over the flats of central Washington.
The area is marked by giant ripple marks and potholes consistent with flooding, but on such a scale that geologists did not believe. One geologist pushed that theory, endured ridicule, until finally his views came to be accepted.
I guess there is nothing worse than scientists who are so steeped in traditional dogma that they cannot see alternative explanations to a set of facts. Most geologists adhered at the time to the theory of gradulism. Nothing happened quickly in geology.
This idea based itself on a catastrophe.
Well tsunamis and volcanic eruptions are certainly quick events!!
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