05-13-2026 Craters of the Moon National Monument
We messed up and a lot of woulda, shoulda, coulda. Bummer! Bottom line: the visitor center is closed. I should have checked the NPS site , given the current administration's policies on the National Parks. Very frustrating. Oh well, we will still go and see the park. It is a 1.5-hour drive to the park. Miles and miles and miles of sagebrush. Terribly windy. Nothing but Cows, communications towers on mountains, and yes...sagebrush. I had full T-Mobile 5-G bars. Why would there be full 5G bars in an area with nothing? Barry says it is because of underground military installations...his conspiracy theory. It’s INL installations, that’s why. My guess is that there are numerous INL installations along Highway 20, Idaho National Laboratories . We also saw a sign for a nuclear launch pad facility, EBR-I Atomic Museum -a nuclear museum, a radioactive waste disposal site, and lots of power lines. If we had...