Saturday, May 18, 2013

Bear Country, USA in Rapid City, SD

We spent this afternoon at Bear Country, USA, which is about 2 miles from our campground.  They have over 200 bears and a variety of other animals.  It was fun driving through the park and seeing the bears walking everywhere.  Bob was disappointed that he didn't see any bears in Yellowstone, so after seeing about 200 of them today he got his bear fix!

Rocky Mountain Elk

Rocky Mountain Elk

Mule Deer

Arctic Wolves

Donner, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, etc.

Big Horn Sheep

Big Horn Sheep

Rocky Mountain Goat

Awww...bear hug!

This guy decided he wanted to sit in the middle of the road.

Mountain Lions

Black Bear

Black bear swimming

Sound asleep.  They sleep in the most precarious
positions!

Big grizzly

Sound asleep!  :-)

This guy paced back & forth like he was guarding
the gate.  They will not walk across the cattle guards.

Huge bison

Bison

This grizzly was HUGE and he had his own exhibit
near the front entrance.  Again, sleeping in a strange
position!
At the entrance to the babyland exhibit where the
baby bears, etc. are.  We didn't go there because
the thunder boomers were starting & we didn't
want to get caught in the rain.

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