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I went to Wyoming this summer and absolutely loved it. But let me tell you about a place called Osage...

There is a quaint little town in Wyoming known as Osage. To give you an idea of what "quaint" means, here is what downtown looks like. Okay, so it's not exactly a town, but it's one of the only populated settlements between Rapid City and Gillette on Route 16. I decided to pay a little visit to this place on my way out to Yellowstone a couple of weeks ago. To help you avoid making the same mistakes that I made, let me tell you the first thing I did wrong in Osage:

I stopped

Seriously. Just keep driving. Do not turn off of US 16. Do not look back.
When my friend and I were headed off to Yellowstone, we ended up needing a place to stay the night at the end of our second day. Having made it to Wyoming, we thought it might be nice to camp out in Thunder Basin national grasslands for the night. I found a site online that lead us to a campsite by this pond. After missing our turn onto East Railroad Street, we turn onto Old US 16 and ended up driving through the heart of Osage. If this place wasn't in the middle of nowhere, I would have thought that this town had a thriving meth economy. After driving through creepyville, we continue on to our campsite, which leads us to a five mile long stretch of dirt road, followed by even more, worse conditioned dirt roads.

Now let me tell you about this campsite. There is a nice little pond surrounded by a never-ending sagebrush steppe. For those who don't know, sagebrush smells absolutely wonderful and makes the air glow with life.

Mosquito pits, on the other hand, do not.

This pond attracted the worst collection of flies you have ever seen (I'm looking at you, Salt Lake. You're only number 2). And to top it off, cover the ground in red ants and fill the rusty outhouse with a nice big yellow jacket nest. Not that I was going to use that outhouse anyways, but having a massive yellow jacket city 10 yards from your car is a frightening thought.

We (wisely) decided that this might not be the best camp spot for the night, so we head out and decide to gain a few more hours that night. As we're driving up the dirt road (before we had hit any intersections), a pickup truck starts heading in the opposite direction. I'd feel weird camping at a pond while two guys are going fishing there. So we left.

If you want a creepy place to explore, go to Osage.

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