{"id":169,"date":"2017-08-04T23:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T03:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-01-04T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:39:08","slug":"day-4-cottonwood-campground-to-bluebell-campground-custer-national-forest-south-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/2017\/08\/04\/day-4-cottonwood-campground-to-bluebell-campground-custer-national-forest-south-dakota\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 &#8211; Cottonwood Campground to Bluebell Campground, Custer National Forest, South Dakota (634 km)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6274 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/day4map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/day4map.png 1500w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/day4map-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/day4map-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/day4map-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/day4map-1000x500.png 1000w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/day4map-670x335.png 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Day four, beautiful morning in Cottonwood Campground. Our campsite was perfectly situated to catch the awesome sunrise across Lake Yankton. Our site (B9) was a good premium site overlooking the lake and we had breakfast and moved on to Custer State Forest on the other side of South Dakota.<\/h4>\n<h4>As we moved through SD, the topography changed from farmland to badland and the great plain came in to view. The badlands are particularly striking and they are a definite must-see in this area.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Morning at Cottonwood.<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-176\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sunrise-in-cottonwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sunrise-in-cottonwood.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sunrise-in-cottonwood-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sunrise-in-cottonwood-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sunrise-in-cottonwood-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun is about to rise&#8230;<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Evening-at-cottonwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Evening-at-cottonwood.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Evening-at-cottonwood-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Evening-at-cottonwood-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Evening-at-cottonwood-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Big sky country.<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-177\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/big-sky-SD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/big-sky-SD.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/big-sky-SD-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/big-sky-SD-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/big-sky-SD-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon surveys the horizon (probably looking for some sheep).<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jon-surveys-the-horizon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jon-surveys-the-horizon.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jon-surveys-the-horizon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jon-surveys-the-horizon-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/jon-surveys-the-horizon-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the sheep!!! They are at Cabellas!<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Cabellas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"3413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Cabellas.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Cabellas-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Cabellas-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Cabellas-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick loves his new MP5 assault rifle.<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ricksmp5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ricksmp5.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ricksmp5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ricksmp5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myriad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ricksmp5-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time Lapse of our Day Four trip.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m8QRufCnW2E?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day four, beautiful morning in Cottonwood Campground. Our campsite was perfectly situated to catch the awesome sunrise across Lake Yankton. Our site (B9) was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-epic-2017"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6286,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/6286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}