Bill Frome County Park is on the west side of Henry's Lake. Frome park has no thrills...no water, no electricity, but two modern outhouses for $15 per night (was free up until a few years ago). Generators are ok except between 10 pm and 6 am. With this boat dock pictured above, the park entertains many boaters, some of whom camp overnight too.
This is our third or fourth time staying here. It is 30 miles from the entrance at West Yellowstone. Yellowstone has comping, but you need to make reservations at most of them. Since we will be visiting Yellowstone 3 or 4 times while being here, the drive will keep our batteries full, although I typically run the generator for 60-90 minutes at nightfall when we dry camp like this.
So we left Cracker Barrel in Missoula around 8:30 am. Had a good night sleep, and figured we would be at Henry's Lake around 1:30 pm. On the way our GPS reboot itself, and in doing so, wiped out my trip. I quickly found "Henry's Lake" and input it into the GPS and continued. This route had me turn south on I-15, which we did. Around 2 while getting gas I realized the GPS had the wrong lake...we needed to go east to highway 20 and back up through Island Park and to Henrys Lake...90 miles away. I figured we drove 150-180 extra miles...and that was not fun since I had programed myself for a 5 hour drive, 6 after rest stops. We arrived at the park around 5 pm.
Today we went NOWHERE. Tomorrow we will go to Yellowstone, and probably Friday and Saturday, maybe Sunday. We paid for two nights here at Frome, but my guess is we will pay and be here through Monday. Tuesday we will move further south so that we can be in Salt Lake City on Wednesday for a couple of days.
That's weird, your GPS messing up. Very nice to have a cheap place to stay near Yellowstone. Do you have your fridge running? I'm wondering if the batteries will last all day and night with only solar keeping them charged up.
ReplyDeleteThe only time I have ever shut my fridge down is when I defrost the freezer, which I have done three times now since we owned it...most recently just 3-4 days ago. Even when in storage, I have the fridge on, with the generator set to run if power falls to 11.9. Around 8 pm each night I run the generator (unless we are plugged in, of course) for 60-90 minutes, which allows us to use our computers, watch TV, have the heater and/or fans going. In the morning, I typically have 12.1 left on the batteries. Since we are moving just about every day on this little vacation away from Sacramento, solar is not as important until we stop. Of course, I have to turn the generator on when I use the micro, the induction cooktop or if we need the AC on. While on solar, I have seen my batteries charge from 12.1 up to 12.6 numerous times WITH the fridge going, one or two computers going, and the TV going. So I think YES, you can have your fridge on while you camp, just need to back-up with generator on overcast days.
DeleteOh no! That certainly made for a longer day.
ReplyDeleteLonger day, and a big hit to my ego...not like it was the first time I was in this area, I should have known there was a problem way faster than I caught it.
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