Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Mountain Plains Heritage Park & Historic Buffalo - Buffalo, Wyoming


Aug 13 
****Buffalo didn’t have great internet either. Maybe in Rapid City, South Dakota.

We have had really warm sunny days up until this morning. It was windy & quite cool. We were glad we had our hiking days on the nice days. We planned a low-key day and started with what would have been a nice walk around this park, but it was a bit windy. It was a large area and on a good day you could spend quite a bit of time here walking the various trails.
 Mountain Plains Heritage Park


 Homestead Cabin

Vesper Sparrow
 The Wyoming Railway Company Interpretive Trail
 Western Wood-Pewee
 unknown - possible immature Robin
Canada Geese coming in for a landing
 The Buffalo Wildlife Habitat Project
 Vesper Sparrow



 Wood Ducks, Pied-billed Grebes & a Great Blue Heron



 Eastern Yellow-bellied Racer
 Eastern Yellow-bellied Racer
 Eastern Yellow-bellied Racer
Cedar Waxwing
It was lunch time and we headed to downtown Buffalo. The town just finished their Longmire Days annual celebration. A local author, Craig Johnson based his books on life in Buffalo, Johnson County & Wyoming. Plus, his books inspired a TV show called "Longmire" that ran for something like 6 years. So, this little town has something to celebrate.


 historic downtown



  Clear Creek Cantina - lunch was VERY GOOD! They weren't afraid to uses some spice. I tried the red chili sauce and the green chili sauce and both were yummy.
 chimichanga & enchilada
 enchilada & taco


 town square



 "not just a one horse town" mural 1884
 Clear Creek runs right through town




 Johnson County Courthouse
Veterans Memorial

We also toured the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum. It was a well done museum and actually quite large. No photos were allowed inside.

From their website: "The Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum has been a part of the Buffalo community since 1900 when Jim Gatchell opened a drugstore. The Buffalo Pharmacy was a stopping place for cowboys, lawmen, settlers, cattle barons, and famous army scouts. As a trusted friend of the region’s Native Americans, he received many gifts representing the culture including guns, war bonnets, tools, medicine bags, bows, arrows, and clothing. Soon local residents were donating mementos of Johnson County’s historic names, places, and events."



After the museum we went in search of ice cream and found some, but it wasn't very good. 
Tomorrow we are off to Rapid City, South Dakota.

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