Tonight we will be camping on the shoreline of the Missouri River, the longest river in the United States. Yes it's longer than the Mississippi River, but just by a little bit. Some measure it to be just 1-mile longer!
There goes my hopes to collect a little solar power during the drive today.
It had three engines in the front, two in the middle and one more pushing from the rear.
We crossed over it at McDonald Pass (elev. 6312).
I'm sure glad we going downhill, it was less steep getting to the top from the west.
We briefly drove through the west side of the capitol city of Helena before heading further east to our destination on the Missouri River.
We arrived at the campground just like we planned, right at noon, with the check-out time being 11:00AM. I know we were early, but the official check-in time of 1:00PM is so they have 2-hours to clean up the campsite from the occupants last night, which they rarely ever do.
When we first approached our campsite I noticed there was a small cargo trailer with an ATV on it. We just continued on by our site and headed for the exit when we saw someone riding around on an ATV with garbage cans and brooms in the back, obviously someone who works here.
I flagged him down and told him the situation and he said he'd "look into it". We were already too far outside of the campground to just turn around and go back in, so we went back up to the highway where the overview of the campground photo was taken to trun around.
By the time we got back to within sight of our campsite I noticed a black pickup truck backed up to the cargo trailer and hooking up to it. We parked just out of sight at the boat ramp area and watched from afar as he vacated our site.
When he was gone we pulled in and got set up. This was about 20-minutes after we drove by the first time. Turns out he only took the cargo trailer a couple sites away and then squeezed it onto what was apparently his site. The campsite post clearly had a reservation card on it showing that our site was reserved yesterday, today and tommorow, so I don't know how long he felt he could leave his overflow on our site.
Once we finished lunch and setting up the Starlink dish, we sat back and relaxed while watching the nonstop aquatic show going on right behind our campsite.
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