Badwater Road to Dry Bridger Road

The paved road from US-20 turns toward Bonneville at the junction below and switches from being Badwater Road to Bonneville Road. To stay on Badwater Road, you must turn left onto the gravel road.

We returned to the spot we had left at the end of my last blog post.

There are a few side roads which lead off of Badwater Road but are not named. What follows are six shots from one of those dead-end roads.

For the sake of perspective, I asked my wife to be a part of this photograph. It is a wall of columns, and this shot shows all of them.

What follows is along the main road.

Below is a close-up of above.

Badwater Road continues southeast to Lysite at the junction above. The Lysite, Lost Cabin area has many of these natural gas drilling sites as seen below. Because of this, there are a few warning signs along the way.

What follows are shots taken from Point of Mountain Road.

Pronghorns gallop away as soon as they see you, but this loner came trotting by us and passed within about 20 feet. It was so unusual that we weren't prepared to take any better shots than the one below.

At this junction, we turned onto Bridger Creek Road.

Then we turned onto Dry Bridger Road, or Hot Springs County Road Five which leads back to Thermopolis. The other roads we were on had been graded recently, but not so with this one.

About a half mile past this cabin we encountered too much mud because of the melting snow, and so we turned around and decided to have our picnic lunch below. By the way, I didn't understand the nature of mud until I came to Wyoming.

What follows are the shots I took on the way home, taking the same route.

Below is the snow on the other side of the dam which holds back this small reservoir.

This is a part of the dam:

The next four photographs are a part of the ditch below, next to Badwater Road.

The stones below are from the location pictured above. I found them all within a six foot radius.

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Badwater and Quien Sabe Roads

A few miles before the turnoff to Bonneville from US-20 are some abandoned buildings on the east side of the highway. We stopped to look around and see if anything was worth photographing.










This is a spring full of fetid water.

The next three shots are the view from the "backyard."

Most of the shots above were taken by my wife. I was feeling so distressed by the trashiness of us humans that my mood thwarted my ability to see what would be good to photograph.

Below is a view from Badwater Road, with Bonneville in the distance, to the right of Badwater Creek which is only partially seen on the right of the shot. For a view of the entrance to Badwater Road from US-20, click here (this link also includes shots from our first trip along Badwater Road).

Quien Sabe Road (see sign below) is Spanish for Who Knows. Here is a link to Google Maps for the location of the junction of Badwater and Quien Sabe.

These are pronghorns (often referred to as antelopes, but really they are a different species):

Along the roads in this area, there are rocks which line both sides of the road. Maybe this is just the result of grading the roads or maybe this was done decades ago to help travelers know the path of the road.

After following Quien Sabe Road until it became what looked like a minor private road up the side of one of the foothills, we turned around and explored more of Badwater Road.

As you can tell by the photograph below, Badwater Road isn't filled with interesting sights. But what enhances the experience is getting out and seeing close-up what is suitable to be photographed. This is why we like this hobby.

These little hills or mounds are grayish green in color and so soft that the effects of rain are quite obvious.

Since we only had six hours of respite from taking care of my wife's mother, we had to cut short our return visit to Badwater Road. Maybe we will get another chance to visit this area.
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