Road trip from Southern Alberta to Texas
As the title suggests, I’m planning a road trip from southern Alberta, Canada down to Gruene, Texas for a friend’s wedding next year in May. It’ll be mine and my partners first time doing a trip like this into the states so we’re both super excited and trying to figure out what the ‘must sees/dos’ are along the way. Alternatively if you see something I’ve listed below that you think could wait for another trip please let me know!
I know some things may need to be booked pretty far in advance so I thought narrowing down our stops sooner would be better.
We’ll be passing through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and finally into Texas. We’re thinking of doing five days down, five days back and spending about a week in Texas for the wedding itself. We’ll likely have some flexibility with our schedule to take a couple extra days if needed.
We’re both very outdoorsy and adventurous so I already have most of the national parks noted down, I would love any hike recommendations in or outside of the parks though! Same goes for any other outdoor activities. We’re big on culture, history and food too. I love nature photography so any suggestions on spots for that would be appreciated too!!
I guess any info on passes etc would be helpful as well, I imagine we’d probably do the America the Beautiful pass for the parks but I have no clue about anything else lol
We’ll also be camping with our truck and box camper.
If you managed to read this far, please know I appreciate you immensely!
So far I’ve had a (very) quick look into;
Montana
- Glacier National Park
- Road to the Sun
- Beartooth Highway
- Montana Dinosaur Trail - Museum of the Rockies (largest t-Rex skull)
- Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park
- Gallatin National Forest
Wyoming
- Mammoth Hot springs
- Yellowstone National Park
- Grand Teton National Park
- Absaroka Range
- Saratoga Hot Springs
Colorado
- Mesa Verde National Park
- San Juan Skyway
- Maroon Bells Peak
- Glenwood Springs
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Red Rocks Amphitheater
- Garden of the Gods/Pikes Peak
- Royal Gorge Bridge and Park
- Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
New Mexico
- Bandelier National Monument
- Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs
- Taos Pueblo
- Santiario de Chimayo
- Ghost Ranch
- Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
- Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wildnerness
- Carlsbad Caverns