Originally Posted by
charbucks
Looks beautiful! Seems like you found some nice quiet roads with great scenery. Did you wild camp, or find places to stay?
No wild camping. We stayed at 4 private campgrounds, including one the night before we started riding and a very nice, BLM campground on the Big Hole River. As planned, we stayed in a motel in Butte because the only campground in town was next to the interstate and generally not very nice. We also camped at the free, cyclists-only facility in Twin Bridges. It's a very nice place along the Beaverhead River right on the edge of town. Screened-in shelter, shower and toilete. Picnic tables, clothes line, and lots of lawn to pitch a tent. In Wisdom we got a room because we got into town late, the camping place (city park) was pretty beat up and the mosquitoes would land on you before you got off your bike. Another night we stayed at Elkhorn Hot Springs when we found that the nearby U.S.F.S. campground we intended to stay at was closed for renovations. (The campground's web site said nothing about this. I alerted the FS and they put a notiation on the site.)