Central California to Yellowstone National Park & Grand Teton National Park!

[calgecko]

Great story - love hearing how excited the kids were - that's going to result in some great memories for them as they grow up sounds like the Bronco was a great road trip vehicle - and as others have mentioned, having 5 people plus 300 lbs of gear inside it and still getting that kind of MPG is impressive!! Also, absolutely LOVE all the photos - looks like you had a blast!

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[swanjonson]

Any top picks for restaurants, bars, or don't miss places in Montana or Wyoming?

Doing a similar trip last week in September through Ketchum to Montana and back through Wyoming. I try to avoid tourist traps and first hand advice is always appreciated. Most places you find on internet searches tend to be overrated.

We were out there last week. We rented a vehicle, didn’t bring the Bronco.

I cannot recommend places for dinner as we rented a house and cooked our dinners, but we stopped at Ernie’s in West Yellowstone a couple times and picked up there boxed sandwich lunches a couple times, then stopped at different areas and ate our lunch with awesome scenic views.

Ernie’s made a great simple sandwich and their boxed lunches are priced fair.

 

[swanjonson]

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Brought the BaseSquatch (Valor) home December of 2021, and we're already nearing 16k adventurous miles!

Just finished an 11-day trip from Central California to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. July 18 - July 28.


Here is a quick trip recap with a few essential details and a few very non-essential details...enjoy.

2021 2.7L BaseSquatch (With zero issues so far). We only use 87 octane fuel. Automatic transmission.

MPG Prior to the trip 16.5 (normal mode)...MPG during the trip 20.9 (eco mode mostly...and sport during some twists and turns)

Miles traveled = 3,353

We had a metal cargo box (caged) hooked up going and coming with 350 pounds of gear. The MPG could've been better.

We had 5 passengers. Zero complaints regarding comfort, and only a few "I can't feel the AC" complaints.

We saw 36 other Broncos on the trip...and 51 baby Broncos (the kids kept track).

Of the 36...34 waved as we passed them by (lol...the kids got a kick out of this!).

No joke...we had maybe 30-40 people come up to us and say, "How do you like your Bronco?" or "Nice Bronco!" We even had a few Rubicon owners who had only positive things to say about the Bronco and were just curious as to my thoughts about my new car, and they just wanted to make conversation. I love talking about it to others.

My 7 year old said, "Dad, they're taking pictures of our Bronco again," about 5 times this trip. Pretty funny...he loves it!

This thing handled EVERYTHING well. We even took some off-road trails in the Bridger-Teton area and that was a lot of fun. Although, my Dad did complain that my squatch tires kept shooting rocks at his Ridgeline. I did come home with two very tiny rock chips on the sides of driver and passenger front door. Which means that my Rhino running board/sliders did the trick, because it could've easily been 50 dings and chips! Going to buy a little touch up paint for the future.

My front windshield came home intact, thank God. However, it is a BUG MAGNET. I'm probably going to purchase a bug deflector. I had to purge my window of bugs during every stop...but I didn't mind one bit.

It took me two hours to detail when I got home...it looks show room new again!

Cheers!

Did you kids count the mini vans that waved? We where in Yellowstone 7/23 - 7/26 and Grand Teton/Jackson 7/26-7/29. I had a rental, but instively waved to the Broncos we encountered.

 

[68 galaxie]

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Nice pics from the trip!

BTW, did you buy a new grill and headlights for the BaseSquach?

that’s the way it came

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