Lander, WY

Lander is the stop for the support vehicle while the biker is traversing the Great Basin. There are all services and you can restock supplies & gas. The Holiday Lodge has camping or reasonable motel rates with breakfast for whichever option you chose. Landers has several restaurants & fast food joints. For a nice side trip we went to Sinks Canyon State Park. There is a visitor's center, and camping there. The river actually totally disappears underground and re-emerges several blocks away. Spectacular trout and birds.
JAN writes - Today was warm, but we spent the entire time exploring outside. We visited Sinks Canyon State Park where the wide and fast flowing Popo Agie River goes completely underground and emerges 1/2 mile later out of the side of a hill. Where it comes out of the ground, dozens of huge rainbow trout congregate. An amazing sight. No fishing allowed there! We went to the nearby Shoshone Indian Reservation and visited their cultural center and learned even more about Sacajawea, who is buried on the reservation. She was Lewis and Clark's guide on their exploration of the West in 1805. We have actually seen lots of Lewis and Clark sites the last several weeks. We also went to where the Oregon Trail and Pony Express trails cross near an area Beth will be riding through. The wagon ruts on the Oregon Trail are still very evident. We came upon Beth riding temporarily with another biker who is doing only part of the Great Divide Trail. She was pretty banged up as she crashed going down hill yesterday. We couldn't convince her to quit temporarily and heal a bit. She will be on her own for the next 2 days and will be crossing over 120 miles of high desert and the temperatures are expected to be higher than normal - in the upper nineties. She is determined to finish this trek on time!