Travelling Time

Hi from UK

Many thanks for past help in planning our trip!

Can I please ask how long you reckon it will take us to drive from Loveland, Colorado to Little Bighorn Battlefield. I think mapquest estimates around 6 1/2 hours, but I%26#39;m hoping we may be able to do it in a little less time. Does anyone have experience of this journey and where would be a good middle stopping point.

Thanks once again.

Travelling Time

Being as it is all freeway that is a big plus for keeping things from slowing down (due to two lanes each way) but it is harder to get ahead of the time estimate without exceeding the posted speed limit. Then again 5-10 mph over the posted speed is pretty much a given in any of the Western U.S. I had heard that Wyoming has lowered freeway speed limits by 10mph or so which in most states is a subtrefuge for making the prior speed limit now the common speed. Hard telling if the mapping sites have factored the new ';legal'; speed into the calculations. GoogleMaps has 451 miles in 6h12m so seems something like 70mph. But you may be amazed at the number of cars quickly passing anyone doing that speed.

If worried about getting a ticket you could stop at any big discount store (WalMart, Target, etc...) and get a radar detector. Still for UK visitors pleading confusion between mph and Km/h can sometimes talk the way out of a ticket. Five mph over should be relatively safe from being stopped but would buy only about a half hour savings.

Casper would be a logical halfway point but personally I think the area around Glendo and Glendo State Park is prettier.

Travelling Time

Thanks for your help. We always try to keep to the speed limit - just wasn%26#39;t sure how accurate mapquest was!

I will certainly look into Glendo for the stop. Thanks again.

I think it will take a little more than that time, since you will certainly need to stop and use the facilities at least once! Maybe even get a bite to eat...

I think the times given are generally a little on the ';miracle'; side, but there are no major cities with rush hours to slow you down. It%26#39;s all interstate, too, with hopefully no major construction delays.

Travel in a pack of other cars without being the leader or the follower, and beware near highway interchanges (where there are coffee shops), and you can travel the prevailing speed without much worry of a ticket.

These are wide open spaces we%26#39;re talking about here! The posted speed limit on the Interstate is 75, but most people will be going a little above it, I predict. That%26#39;s about 130 kph.

Don%26#39;t forget to allow time to travel to your ultimate destination, as there%26#39;s not much else in Crow Agency.

We make the Bozeman - Fort Collins run once or twice a year -- usually summer, but sometimes winter. We figure ten hours, with Buffalo as the midpoint. That includes quick restroom breaks and a half-hour for lunch, which is usually the Subway in Buffalo. So 6.5 sounds reasonable, maybe allow for 7.

Thanks for all your advice. We land in Denver from the UK around 18.30 hours and will then drive to Loveland for an overnight stop.

The following day we will drive to have a look round the Battlefields and we will then travel to Billings for an overnight stop, before heading to Yellowstone via the Beartooth Highway.

I know the day will be long but hopefully not too bad.

Thanks again - appreciate all your input!