4,000 Mile M850 Road Trip Highlighting Wyoming, Colorado & Utah

[dutchm2]

Originally Posted by hookson

Great write up! Used to do a road trip in my M5. Prefect car for such a cruise

Very cool! Do you still trip on the M5?

[hookson]

Originally Posted by joao.toscano

Very cool! Do you still trip on the M5?

Not anymore
It got flooded

[Ölheizer]

Thank you for sharing, what an amazing trip! Stunning car and nature, wonderful pictures.
Some of them look like the reality-version of Bob Ross paintings

[Lady Jane]

Thanks for taking us along on this fabulous trip. Just WOW!

[adhrp]

Originally Posted by hookson

Great write up! Used to do a road trip in my M5. Prefect car for such a cruise

Wow you did all this from Florida? I want to too (drove plenty around some of these same areas when I lived closer to that part of the country), but my wife will divorce me if I even propose the plan. Plus one needs a lot of time to do justice to a trip like this.

[adhrp]

Originally Posted by Ev0lutionx

Thanks for sharing! What an amazing trip and pictures. The scenery is absolutely breathtaking. Hate the fact that I’m stuck in Illinois.

I used to do trips out west from WI and it wasn't that bad! This was in a Honda Civic back when I was in college. In a BMW in the Midwest, I'll happily get on the road going west again! Alas, I'm now in FL.

[DrVenture]

Originally Posted by Ev0lutionx

Thanks for sharing! What an amazing trip and pictures. The scenery is absolutely breathtaking. Hate the fact that I’m stuck in Illinois.

Which means that you are already halfway there!

[secretariat]

Another picturesque trip by snowbimmer means a bunch of screen savers. I will have to remove the one I still have from the last trip right now and insert the new. Out with the old in with the new. Thank you for these fantastic pictures.

[duky]

Amazing trip - thanks for the write up and photos! So jealous I need to get on the road again soon

[dutchm2]

Originally Posted by hookson

Not anymore
It got flooded

oh no ...

[Llarry]

Great report and thread -- thank you!

[Moopai]

These pictures are like an oil paintings! Thanks for sharing, great scenery...

One comment for Day 6, this is an unacceptable picture... Dirty M850, C'mon... LOL

[BimmerRob08]

That is one hell of a well planned out and awesome road trip my man. I’m jelly. Love the scenic pics and congrats on the ride. I did one road trip from Cambridge, UK to Rome, Italy in 2010 in my E92 M3 I picked up new in Munich when I was stationed in England. Still have it now state side but haven’t done many road trips here. Sure is best of times.

RB

[GOLFFRR]

epic post!

[snowbimmer]

Originally Posted by adhrp

Damn that's such a detailed thread that I couldn't reach the end of it.. I'll enjoy it slowly! You are so lucky to be able to drive that part of the country.. Some of the best lands in America!

I saw some handwritten labels that looked like they were written using a fountain pen, am I right?

Pace yourself.

I think you're referring to the overall trip map. I line it out on google maps, print it and then mark it up with some of the trip details, then turn it into a jpeg.

[snowbimmer]

Originally Posted by kingofpena

Amazing journey and pictures!

Thank you.

Originally Posted by BruinMan

Enjoyed - thanks

Glad you liked it

Originally Posted by T0RM3NT

As always, great pics and commentary to accompany them. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks - anytime.

Originally Posted by JoeAyalaM

Great write up, sweet ride and amazing pictures, thanks for sharing.

Makes me want to go places...

Thanks for the nice words. As far as wanting to go places, I get that a lot.

Originally Posted by NickyC

Nice, thank you!!

Appreciate it. Thanks.

[snowbimmer]

Originally Posted by cjeansonne

I’ve read all of your road trip pieces and I can’t thank you enough for your time and effort to put these together and sharing it all with us. It reminds me of when I was a kid road tripping with my family thru the American West. It also makes me want to start doing the same types of trips in my car. Can’t wait for your next post about your trip in September.

Thank you. It actually does take a lot of time and effort for a thread like this - there's lots of Bimmerpost quirks. I think I have it down to a manageable process now.

We also took trips all over the west as I was growing up. Oddly, my dad loved to drive. Big ole Ford Galaxies. I never stopped. Just finished Ken Burns' "The National Parks - America's Best Idea" recently. After watching it again (after 15 years) you realize there are a lot of people out there that had National Park DNA injected into their systems when they were kids and they still carry it around with them today. What great memories.

Hopefully, the September trip with 6 national parks will yield some good stuff.

As a side note, I see you have a '21 Donington M5C. My first thread in 2019 was with a Donington M5 that took me to all the great parks in UT. It was a beautiful car, as you well know. However, it got traded out for a '21 M5C - which is still the best car I've ever had, even though the M850 is my favorite. Alas, the Donington became Brands Hatch and it's just not as good. Always lovin' me some Donington.

Thanks for following along.

[adhrp]

Originally Posted by snowbimmer

Just finished Ken Burns' "The National Parks - America's Best Idea" recently. After watching it again (after 15 years) you realize there are a lot of people out there that had National Park DNA injected into their systems when they were kids and they still carry it around with them today. What great memories.

I watched it a few years ago- great documentary, and America's National Parks are such a phenomenal idea. Kudos to those who established them.

[mjn77]

Originally Posted by snowbimmer

Pace yourself.

I think you're referring to the overall trip map. I line it out on google maps, print it and then mark it up with some of the trip details, then turn it into a jpeg.

Try the MyRouteplanner website / app. It is very good for route planning.

https://www.myrouteapp.com/en/home

[snowbimmer]

Originally Posted by mjn77

Try the MyRouteplanner website / app. It is very good for route planning.

https://www.myrouteapp.com/en/home

That looks really good. I'll give it try. Thanks.

See, this is why bimmerpost rocks.

[snowbimmer]

Originally Posted by adhrp

I watched it a few years ago- great documentary, and America's National Parks are such a phenomenal idea. Kudos to those who established them.

It took a long time for the idea to catch on. Park visits really took off after WWII. People had cars and young families - the trains weren't needed anymore. Pictures from the '60s show the parks just crammed with people. But, there were only 100,000,000 visits back then. Now? 325,000,000 in 2023. They are being loved to death. And now, several parks have timed entry systems. Six years ago we were in Yosemite and the valley floor was overrun with people. There was virtually no parking at Yosemite Village. And this was at the end of September, after the summer high season. I'm not quite to the point where it would keep me away - we've been pretty lucky mostly. I'd still rather go than not go. Just might have to get more creative with the timing.

This chart encompasses the parks and monuments administered by the National Park Service. Oh, to be at a park in the early 1900's. Course, the roads probably sucked.

[adhrp]

Originally Posted by snowbimmer

It took a long time for the idea to catch on. Park visits really took off after WWII. People had cars and young families - the trains weren't needed anymore. Pictures from the '60s show the parks just crammed with people. But, there were only 100,000,000 visits back then. Now? 325,000,000 in 2023. They are being loved to death. And now, several parks have timed entry systems. Six years ago we were in Yosemite and the valley floor was overrun with people. There was virtually no parking at Yosemite Village. And this was at the end of September, after the summer high season. I'm not quite to the point where it would keep me away - we've been pretty lucky mostly. I'd still rather go than not go. Just might have to get more creative with the timing.

This chart encompasses the parks and monuments administered by the National Park Service. Oh, to be at a park in the early 1900's. Course, the roads probably sucked.

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I drove to Yellowstone in 2012 from WI through the Dakotas and Badlands and into Yellowstone then back via the Beartooth pass in MO and WY. It was epic! This was peak summer but the crowds weren't that bad at all.