TOTAL DESOLATION Rural Drive - Wyoming Into Colorado (Far Off The Interstate)

[@charleskra]

Love this video. Many folks who haven't traveled extensively by car have no idea just how empty parts of this country are. I have had similar experiences to this in Utah and Arizona. Well done.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for that. And yes, so many great places like this in the US.

[@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975]

It feels even more empty when you live there.

[@MeadowDay]

Let’s hope the peace of these areas last forever

[@Kinann]

I meandered 1000 miles in these same areas for the last solar eclipse, iti s truly magnificent country. Thanks for the return trip.

[@jeremywhitehorn1228]

This is one of my fave of y'alls road trips. The terrible loneliness and grandeur of Hiawatha Rd was really something

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you!

[@TheKellie03]

I enjoy traveling with y'all. The census data you provide for each of the little towns is informative and interesting.

[@cpkarkow663]

Brings back happy memories of so many roads like this that I often drove through WY, UT, CO and Montana (and NoDak) now most driving is through NV, which is also desolate and beautiful. I think when driving through the desert is when I am absolutely the happiest

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

I'm with you on that. This was one of my favorite drives ever.

[@jeepgirljody]

Nice!

[@RandyFelts2121]

I've gone through Southern Wyoming, but never been any farther North. The vids you made of Cody and Yellowstone made me rethink Wyoming. The Southern part reminds me of pictures I've seen of the surface of the moon.

[@tenbroeck1958]

Beautiful. I had dreams of a landscape just like this as a kid. I found out I was adopted and that my father grew up on a ranch in Colorado, and this basically looks like his back yard view!.

[@Callylily7]

That must have been very exciting for you. Great story

[@jimrichards1798]

The Wyoming/Colorado border country you drove through looks to have the perfect population density.

[@danmoritz3319]

I drove southwestern Wyoming in winter. It's far more desolate that time of year. As I recall, heading to higher elevations it ranged between merely snowing, to near blizzard conditions, near zero degrees, at times could not see the road, high or low beam, unless I turned off the headlights, completely but kept the sidelamps on - this cut down the blinding headlight glare on blowing snow, making the roadway apparent, again. There was zero traffic for hours - haha, no worries about traffic, yet, not a good place to be stranded. That's why a kept moving. But THEN, heading westward, finally, into Utah, I entered what seemed a magical oasis place - the Salt Lake City valley, which was a spring like 40 degrees F, and NO SNOW, an enormous relief after hours of barren, bitter cold, nearly featureless landscape driving. On a city park picnic table, in these lowlands, you could look up to the higher surrounding mountains and watch the storms snow line slowly descending lower and lower. That's an amazing sight for someone from the flatter, American midwest, lacking such high elevations.

[@thomaswinnen4365]

😂😂 when you showed the kum n Go gas station, I started the jokes immediately 😅😅😅

[@BrunieStudios]

Incredible road trip, a marvel…..the open, 😊lonely landscape is both beautiful and fearsome,….❤❤❤

[@davidbowen2175]

Love your videos on the West, so desolate, good u had your wife with u too. Ya'll compliment one another quite well. RB, Conyers, GA

[@michaelm5734]

There's a great hot spring up on the mountain just outside of Steamboat Springs call Strawberry Park. Probably the best and most beautiful hot springs I've ever been to.

[@daviddecelles8714]

Kum & Go?! A commercial franchise with a suggestive name utterly unknown to we uppity New Englanders. The two of you were still kidding about it in the car probably some distance from where you too were, I take it, first introduced to its notable name. More seriously, your viewers can only repeat our thanks for your taking the time to pull over and give us a longer panoramic view of an amazingly beautiful but completely unpopulated stretch of our nation along the Wyoming/Colorado border. May it forever remain just as it is!

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

I agree, I hope the road is never paved and people stay away. The USA needs places like this. The gas station chain, btw, is pretty large in the middle of the country. Its corporate headquarters are in Des Moines, and you can find them in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado and of course Iowa. A lot of them are pretty nice, and have sandwich shops inside. Reminds a bit of WaWa's in the East.

[@gregw9289]

I have seen many trucker videos of these areas and they are so desolate. It is good to see that not all of America is crowded. I live in Australia and I can tell you that many parts of iot are exactly like that. Safe travels to you!!

[@davidwhiten3742]

If your ever in Tombstone go east out in the desert in the middle if nowhere there is a huge antique place full of things gathered from the desert. They have Spanish tin uniforms worn by Conquistadors and from their horses armor. Very interesting place but while my friend and I was there nobody came out to talk with us. A little creepy.

[@dopeMike_]

You got a town name?

[@TinkerTailor4303]

Wow, true back roads. Makes one appreciate all the wide open spaces.

[@charlesb8065]

Wow... Love this video and the soundtrack. Greetings from France.

[@sknowman1424]

Love your adventures. You definitely take the road less traveled. Have fun and stay safe.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for watching. :)

[@kosmokritikos9299]

Living in the West, and having traveled extensively throughout the West, if find this is the most fascinating and enthralling video that I have ever seen anywhere. Just fascinating from beginning to end.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Wow, thank you, Cosmo! :)

[@frankpalermo3882]

These rural country videos seem to be more entertaining than big city reviews!

[@danielschear556]

"The Middle of Nowhere." As a dyed-in-the-wool misanthrope who also hates NOISE, that's just where I want to be!🤗

[@akafletcherforever]

im a tad late on this post but I worked in that area for about a year,was staying in Rock Springs. I had to drive it every day,seven days a week .that is a trip that will mentally drain you.We mostly worked off Bittercreek road and the road there on,I was surveying for Green River,I have a cool topo map of that whole area. Did yoyu see the place with the wood AKJ47s on the no trespassing signs going over the road lol. Wild horses everywhere ,just a great place to see wild life,the wind is crazy in the Wyo. Im from Alabama,I got to really explore a lot of cool places,Adobe Town also pretty neat place noth of there.

[@beastylad7418]

Love the video’ I dream of driving these types of roads in the uk 😆 then I wake up and fall out of bed 🛌 America 🇺🇸 is so beautiful’ lucky people living there’ Thanks to Lord Spoda again’ he’s doing the travelling for everyone 👍

[@rajeevdeshpande7666]

Hi Lord Spoda Thank you again for this superb video. As you stopped 'in the mid of nowhere', I remembered Ned Le Doux's song 'Some people do' from his album 'Sagebrush', particularly the line : It's not the place to breakdown, just keep driving through..... A trip to Devil's Tower would have been a cherry on the cake. Also Chris Le Doux's newly installed life size statue in Cheyenne during pandemic, I was waiting for to see. Best wishes for your onward journey!💐

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for the great comment, Rajeev. We will be going to Devil's Tower in time.

[@wanderingfido]

8:37 The hay bales sailing by point to some sort of local productivity, however muted.

[@tedpreston4155]

The Hayden Grain Company, that huge metal building that looked so interesting is called a "grain elevator." It's where farmers take their crops and sell them to a middleman/proccessor, who "elevates" the grain, and then drops it down through drying equipment (so the wet grain won't spoil). After drying, the grain is elevated again, and dropped into those huge round storage silos, where the elevator owner stores the grain until prices rise. Then the elevator operator loads train cars and ships the grain to be processed in the cities. Most small towns throughout the farming areas of the country will have a grain elevator business. Elevators offer other services too. We used to take our grain to the elevator, where we paid them to crush it (sort of like pre-chewing the grain to make it more easily digestible) and add molasses, then we took the calorie-dense grain home again, where we would feed it to our young cattle to fatten them over the fall and winter, before selling them at the local "sale barn" auction house, where meat proccessors would buy them, fatten them some more and then butcher them.

[@chrisshumaker8126]

I have driven this section of road many times since the mid 70’s. I lived in both Rock Springs & Steamboat Springs. Long before cell phones were in use. A lot of this section does not have cell service now. Have seen many wild horses, deer, & antelope on this route. It’s definitely a different experience in the winter. Irish Canyon is a must see. There is now an unimproved campground near there.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

It was a great drive. Enjoyed it a lot.

[@jeepgirljody]

I love Irish Canyon... I have studied the geology and history and I adventure around here often. Did you know at one time it had a drainage out of both ends of the canyon?

[@ken76918]

That bird on the grain silo is a Sandhill Crane.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Cool, thank you for the info. :)

[@sandrastiltner4024]

Hi, I just started watching your travels. I am really enjoying them. When you were in Santa Fe you kept saying Puwayblow. It is pronounced Pu ebb lo(Pueblo). I am from New Mexico and was happy to see your vlog. Sandee

[@dopeMike_]

Poo web blow Cala Raydah

[@georgemcnair3647]

I was born in Wyoming...if it could be that way year round, I would probably still live there. Yes you will see millions of stars at night.

[@davidbreen4727]

just after you got back in the car, headed down the road, it looked like a small town on the left. actually you passed a few small places. what were they? private homesteads, mining camps? to me that is so cool living out in the middle of nowhere. i love videos like this, just open space, no people around for miles.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

It was about 30 miles down the road, and it was a ranch. It was a creepy looking ranch, btw, with wrecked cars and old barns that looked like they were disintegrating where they stood. I wanted to get a closer look, but it was closed off by a gate.

[@davidbreen4727]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip yeah, i did notice a lot of stuff all around. just my curiosity. thanks. way out there would be spooky.

[@joseleswopes1400]

I'm from Delta Colorado and live in Albuquerque NM. One thing that is for sure, you can always tell when you are in Colorful Colorado 💞

[@kujo7777]

Awesome that you took the back roads. I used to live in Clark, CO...NW CO one of my favorite places ever!

[@poetcomic1]

At 6:18 I love how you came to a cautious FULL STOP at the stop sign.

[@andrew.l.5493]

Great video. Loved the long segments with the music. Stunning scenery too. Can you shed some light on the music?

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

It should be listed in the description field. :)

[@timwalthall1499]

I love this stuff! Amazing. You sure get a kick out of those kum and go's!

[@Callylily7]

Yep, he did. I bet he wanted to say a lot. 😂

[@davisdenver6756]

I would love to go to Wyoming and have a taste of solitude!

[@deshonwilliams8261]

You left from my hometown! ❤️

[@elevatedarchives]

I was out that way once and it felt like hours of endless rolling sage hills. Kinda crazy and mesmerizing actually.

[@jimmyjoseph51]

Australian Ciri needs to Chill out.......I'm thinking that maybe she needs to "Kum & Go" more often...hahaha.... Great video LS, just love the "magnificent desolation of Western Colorado & Wyoming. So nice of Nicole to clean your windows too... wish I could get my wife to do that! Keep the great videos coming !

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for the great comment, Jimmy. I got a well needed chuckle while reading it. :)

[@dopeMike_]

Just speak Australian to her maybe shes homesick.

[@streethustler911]

Wow what nice video love you guys ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏

[@randelmcmillin6957]

The really amazing thing about being out there is that 90% of that land is bureau of land management and you can go wherever you want

[@dopeMike_]

Do they allow you to camp out there?

[@tomsisson7217]

Thank you, again!!

[@joseleswopes1400]

I remember back in the 70's Steamboat Springs Colorado wasn't much of anything. We used to live in Denver Colorado and go fishing up there and ski mobileing 😎

[@bobcourtier4674]

I lived east of there. It’s better at night, you can drive by starlight without headlights. Saw a sign once in Baggs that said, “You have to be nuts to live in Baggs”.

[@dopeMike_]

Ive done that in Texas and Oklahoma. Good times. I would have edited the sign to read "You have to have nuts to live in Baggs"

[@bennfisherr6317]

My fiancée always washes the windows while I pump the gas too. I'm following along with my atlas. There really is absolutely nothing in the NW section of Colorado. Craig looks like the very first town of significant size that you come to. Beautiful area!

[@dopeMike_]

Fiancee.....that all changes when they get the "ring"

[@georgebalsa9853]

I am surprised is so desolate! This is America. The greatest country in the world!

[@chrisrankinsmusiccrush9493]

Firstly always love all your videos, I love to travel and road-trips so much. I’ve been to the states and seen a lot also. I live down in Perth Western Australia and large parts of Western Australia are some of the emptiest places on earth. The part where you got out of the Bronco is very similar to the big empty parts of Western Australia, hours even full days where you won’t see anyone, another car or building. Love your channel I’ve watched all “the travel around the USA” videos

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for the kind words, Chris. And I hope you enjoy our traveling companion, Australian Siri. She's become a character in our videos herself. :)

[@dopeMike_]

Been out to Broken Hill and when hes standing on the road in BFE thats what Sturt Hwy looks like, well that and dead kangaroos.

[@brianwillis8447]

I hated being places like this when I was an OTR truck driver.

[@DougCeleste]

Nice road trip and thanks for sharing! I LOVE the desolate parts during the day but NOT at night for visibility and safety reasons. Have you done drives in Kansas? It is my most favorite state for so many reasons, even though I am a native from San Jose, CA. Happy Traveling! 😎

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

I have done several rural Kansas drives, as well as visits to Dodge City, Topeka & Wichita. :)

[@DougCeleste]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Are those Kansas road trips on KZbin? If so, I will have to find them. I have a dear friend who lives northeast of Wichita in cozy Peabody. I will be in my beloved Kansas in September. So many interesting towns and tourist areas to see in Kansas, especially Mt. Sunflower and the Cathedral of the Plains. 😎

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

@@DougCeleste They are. There’s quite a few, actually. 😀

[@DougCeleste]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Thanks for letting me know. I just discovered and subscribed to your very interesting KZbin channel. I will have to look up more of your videos for viewing since I share your LOVE for the open road since doing long road trips ever since the early 1970's. Cheers to you two from New Mexico and be safe out there on the road like I try to be, also! 😎

[@willbygosh4887]

Traffic Jams are not really a problem in Wyoming.

[@patandsandytrierweiler2440]

Much of Wyoming is sagebrush. It's a high plains desert after all. From the perspective of a beautiful desert area, it's better than most. Antelope are my favorite ( amazing and really tough prairie goats) Yellowstone and Jackson are nice.

[@michaelm5734]

There are huge diamond deposits along the Colorado Wyoming border. Mostly colored diamonds. A lot of them just lying on the surface.

[@dopeMike_]

I had some redneck diamonds in my back seat last weekend.

[@jimjackson1087]

I worked in Southwest Wyoming for many years. We used to say about Wamsutter Wyoming. "Its not the end of the world, but you can see it from there"

[@RoadLord-hu9oc]

Where do you get your music? Nice, modern grooves, go well with your drives and drone shots.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

From KZbin. They have made a huge library available to use cost free.

[@peterdefabio9470]

Give me a simple home in that stunning landscape and I am a happy camper.

[@themountainwanderer]

I have done the drive through these parts from CO up to Grand Teton via Lander, WY a couple of times now. It's long hours of driving, but so pretty, at least for long stretches. Way more fun than taking I-25/I-80.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Totally agree. One of my favorite drives ever.

[@patsyguzman9012]

Ive been thereat graig to have a couple of my surgeries all the way from lander to craig

[@barkerjames1980]

I lived in Kemmerer, Wyoming for a few years (location of the first J.C. Penney store). There is a 'Kum & Go' there, used to call it the 'jizz and split'.... That bird you mentioned on that grain silo is a Sandhill Crane.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you for that. I have been to Kemmerer and seen that JC Penney downtown! :)

[@barkerjames1980]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip nice little town, gets awfully cold and bleak in the winter!

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

@@barkerjames1980 Yeah, it was winter when I was there years ago. It was so cold snow flakes would fall from the sky, and there were no clouds. I had never seen that before!

[@barkerjames1980]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip saw that lots of times! I was at a jobsite in the mountains north of town in January of 2002. The elevation was about 9,700', the temperature hovered around -72° for the entire night I was there. Was happy to get back to Kemmerer and its balmy -59°!

[@joantanner8426]

Love your video! In case you need cheap gas Costco and Sam's Clubs are selling gas at about $1 a gallon less than everyone. Check gas buddy. To help prevent breathing/ colds issues as you arrive in dry hotel rooms run some cold water in tub and then run hot shower to manufacture some humidly in your very dry hotel room helps breathing. Much of your areas are high desert low humidly. Enjoy Colorado.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Cool, thank you for the tips, Joan. :)

[@envitech02]

Magnificent desolation!! Ensure you check the tools are there, the spare tyre is inflated to proper pressure and bring along a Jerry can of petrol. Great video!!!

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Absolutely. Better be ready - there's no phone service either. :)

[@marywinn8953]

Petrol? Tyre not tire? Me thinks you are from across the pond.

[@envitech02]

@@marywinn8953 LOL Almost correct Mary. I'm from Malaysia, formerly British Malaya. The influence is strong.

[@dopeMike_]

@@marywinn8953 yea,nah,nah,yeah, mate.

[@jeepgirljody]

My favorites places to explore nice trip.

[@skylineleathercompany]

How many miles have you put on that Bronco since starting your journey? Awesome channel.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

We're at 11 months on the road, and we've put just shy of 47,000 miles on it.

[@naomibryant3172]

Theirs also historical building there in Colorado I went to Colorado ones a year

[@davidbreen4727]

i haven't watched the entire video yet, just had to say, that is paradise. now the rest of the video.

[@SugarWildflower-si4ox]

Wyoming that far off the beaten path..what would you do to make a living and where is the water?

[@Showtime-gc8pk]

I did the same drive but opposite from Denver to Cody Wyoming. I saw some pretty unbelievable things

[@centuryrox]

I really loved that area of southern Wyoming. So desolate, yet so beautiful. I'd love to live out there... where the people AIN'T! LOL

[@martinbruce6651]

That my friend is exactly why I live in Wyoming and not California. Awesome video.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you, Martin! 😀

[@ajantapictures]

Country Roads Take Me Home... Thought you're going to make tracks to Provo, Utah?

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Yes, this summer. St. George, Moab, Provo, some smaller towns as well.

[@dopeMike_]

Who is your cell provider? I noticed when you were out in BFE you still had a 3G signal.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

T-Mobile.

[@michaelmathews295]

I wonder if Kum & Go might also own the Pump n' Munch convenience store chain?

[@dopeMike_]

No they recently changed the name to Pump N Dump so the people in RVs wouldnt get confused and it made the single mothers of the area happier.

[@jamesjacks2010]

Thanks!

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Thank you!

[@jburnett8152]

The West is where I spent most of my life. You won't know the middle of nowhere until you take the Alcan Highway through Canada, Yukon and into Alaska.

[@maryholloway5487]

Hello from Fort Collins.💜

[@tommyzuehlsdorff]

Sometime you should come back and go to Hiawatha and Powder Wash. Two places where my dad grew up, and no one lives anymore. They were oilfield man camps. Now I think they send a couple workers there and that’s it.

[@shannoncopley539]

Reminds me of the road the family went through in the movie the hills have eyes lol

[@donaldmilhoan6379]

Question: Are you and the wife slowly heading back home to Texas? Or you be traveling some more? I'm enjoying your traveling videos, don't want it to end.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

We are making our way to Texas, will take about 4 days off and then we’ll be back out on the road. Heading east this time.

[@dopeMike_]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Are you hoping to keep traveling indefinitely or are you planning on stopping at some point other than your quick stops in DFW?

[@aquablue3803]

Wyoming is Beautiful. My Sister and Her Husband lived there. But there both Deceased. There Daughter still lived there

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

It really is.

[@dixierebel1860]

3:57 - "A" button in circle is off :) Stop - start system, right...? If so, good job ;) Thank God my old 2009 Charger does not have it :)

[@josiel152]

looks like you were on a dirt road most of the way. You should have a survival kit with you in these totally desolate areas.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Right!? :)

[@tamedshrew235]

Gorgeous

[@hunterpaffrath349]

Its a sandhill crane thats painted on silo

[@tedpreston4155]

The southern Red Desert. The Middle of nowhere? Yep. All of the Red Desert feels that way. Few towns, few people, but lots of wild horses, oil and gas wells and rattlesnakes. I'm surprised you didn't see any horses as you drove the dirt road that kept crossing back and forth over the border. (or maybe you did, and didn't realize they are wild.) I'm a bit anti-social, so the Red Desert is one of my favorite playgrounds. 🙃

[@akafletcherforever]

im a tad late on this post but I worked in that area for about a year,was staying in Rock Springs. I had to drive it every day,seven days a week .that is a trip that will mentally drain you.We mostly worked off Bittercreek road and the road there on,I was surveying for Green River,I have a cool topo map of that whole area. I can't believe they didnt show the place with the wood AKJ47s on the no trespassing signs going over the road lol. Wild horses everywhere ,just a great place to see wild life,the wind is crazy in the Wyo. Im from Alabama,I got to really explore a lot of cool places,Adobe Town also pretty neat place noth of there.

[@tedpreston4155]

@@akafletcherforever Adobe Town is among my favorites too! It's an especially good place to go when you don't want to see another human! People don't know what they're missing!

[@akafletcherforever]

@@tedpreston4155 I agree,I think of that area alot

[@RedBecker17FDNZero]

You want to check out an architectural achievement take I70 West from Aspen to Glenwood Springs. Check out Breckenridge too.

[@ronturner5560]

Beautiful country, on the subject of gas stations I have noticed over probably 20+ years now a lot of small operators have opened up as opposed to the majors like Shell, Texaco etc but I'm guessing this might be in name only and the big multi nationals still own them, I've seen many disappear from the scene over my lifetime.

[@13speedpeterbilt]

Sir, could you please share the name of the musical cd, you played, beginning at the 5:10 min mark, in this video. I've been trying to locate the name of that piece, without success. Thank You, Sir..

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

The name should be in the description field.

[@michaelangelo7511]

Beautiful. Void of human inhabitants. That’s what keeps the earth nice.

[@davidtate166]

One of the Wyoming and Colorado's outback s high plains drifter.

[@kcn-qt6fc]

You should see those flatlands in a blizzard.

[@jennylynn82173]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@doneown503]

0:14 - Yup , not a lot out there , except Dinosaur National Monu. , not many people, you can get the solitude in bunches!! 2:26 - just imagine what the sky would look like at night, if no clouds??

[@ramirozamora8117]

Very nice drive !! I come here to Wyoming every summer for work in Saratoga Can you tell me the road name or number the one that took you to wy, colo, border pls. Thanks Be safe

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

The road is Snake River Spur Road 129.

[@ramirozamora8117]

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip thank you

[@WhittyPics]

Is that a dirt road or does it just look like one? Good thing they didn't spell that Kum & Go with a C.

[@keyup2626]

Where you looking for a slap from your wife giving her the gears about cleaning windows lol. ATM Kum & Go lmao.

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Right!!? Kum and Go, lol!!

[@naomibryant3172]

In Colorado check the 6flags it's awesome

[@sailor4116]

Ever worry about the Bronco breaking down in the middle of nowhere?

[@JoeandNicsRoadTrip]

Definitely. Hasn’t happened, though. 😀

[@davidrowe4006]

That's an old grain elevator where farmers sell crops.

[@kathy7613]

You never want to have your car break down in the winter or summer..

[@dopeMike_]

So break down in the spring and fall?