Ten Sleep Canyon

There are two routes that we could have taken leaving Yellowstone National Park from the east entrance. One route goes through the Bighorn Mountains and the other through Ten Sleep Canyon. We chose the latter route since it would save us an hour or two on our way to the Black Hills of South Dakota. This photo and the insets were taken in Ten Sleep Canyon, named for the fact that "it was 10 days' travel, or “10 sleeps,” from Fort Laramie (southeast), Yellowstone National Park (west-northwest), and the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana (northwest)."