We all got up pretty early, for our group, and headed over to the club house for breakfast. After breakfast We packed up the cabin and headed over to the hot springs. We stayed there until check out time.
Jessica loves dinosaurs! The Museum of the Rockies has a very large display of dinosaurs. We could not pass up the opportunity to visit the Museum.
We ate a late lunch at QDOBA Mexican Eats. It is very much like Chipotle.
We started out for home but stopped at the Montana Grizzly Encounter; a Grizzly Bear Rescue & Education Sanctuary in Bozeman, Montana. Where we listened to a bear education and safety lecture while watching a grizzly bear walk around the large enclosure.
The town of Gardiner Montana is located at the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Just outside of Gardiner is the Gardiner Cemetery also know as Tinkers Hill. Follow the links to learn more about Tinkers Hill.
We encountered one bison jam, traffic jam caused people stopping in the road to watch bison. This one was un-preventable. The bison were slowly crossing the road. Some would go straight across, a few would stop on the road almost like they were trying to be a nuisance. A lot of them were grunting as they were moving across the road.
The Museum of the Rockies
https://museumoftherockies.org/
The Museum of the Rockies
https://museumoftherockies.org/
The Museum of the Rockies
https://museumoftherockies.org/
My favorite grave fences are the wrought iron fences. I do like this wooden fence.
My favorite grave fences are the wrought iron fences. I do like this wooden fence.
Lone unmarked grave.
Unmarked grave
Looking uphill
Fenced and un-fenced
This monument reminds of the one in the cemetery at the top of Kebler Pass in Colorado.
“As you are now, I once was.
As I am now, You shall become.”
This monument reminds of the one in the cemetery at the top of Kebler Pass in Colorado.
This has an old date on it, but it does not look that old.
I meant to get a photo from the side, it looks like a log.
Neat wooden marker.
Neat looking wooden marker.
Gardiner Montana from Tinker’s Hill Cemetery
Gardiner Montana in the background.
I think this is the coolest headstone in the cemetery.
We found one headstone with an older date on. But this is hand scratched into a native rock!
This fence has the most obvious marks from being worked by a black smith.
There are several unmarked graves.
Scott must be a family name. They are a few different markers with that name on it.
You can see the black smith’s hammer marks on the fence in the back.
I like the iron fences, most of them are ornate.
I did not notice the name on the headstone on the left. Hope that is not a bad omen! But then I guess you would have to believe in omens to have that really bother you.
Quite a few gravesites have replacement headstones. I like the fences around the gravesites.
Old marble headstone with an even older grave marker.
A lot of the headstones are getting weathered pretty badly.
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2019-07-21 Tinker Hill – Mark Coulter and Family