Our Weather…
Early May it can be cold, or it can be warm. It can snow, or it can be sunny for days. But figure highs in the 50’s lows in the upper 20’s to low 30’s. By the end of May and early June our weather has usually really changed. Much less chance of any precipitation.
June is our warmest, driest month with highs in the mid 80’s and sometimes we will even get to 90 but with LOW, LOW humidity. Nights cool off rapidly with lows in the upper 30’s and 40’s and we can get a frost as late as the third week of June. The country is still gold and brown, we don’t usually have a green spring, that happens in…
July, August and September after our summer rains start about the first week of July. Then our world comes alive! Most days start out sunny and cloudless, by noon the temperature is about 85 with the first thunderheads forming over the peaks. Mid afternoon cools off to the 70’s and thunder storms bang around. It is not often wide covering, you can usually ride around them and miss a drenching. Summer nights are almost never over 50.
Late September we have our first frost after cooler days in the 60’s the last week or so of the month.
October brings frost most every morning but perfect fall days in the 60’s and 70’s the first few weeks and later in October it will be in the 50’s and 60’s with nights in the upper 20’s.
Special times of the year…
Late May and early June is Elk calving time. This is when you can see herds numbering in the hundreds out in the grasslands. On horseback it is easy to get close for amazing photos.
Wildflowers show up 2nd week of July and peak at the end of August. It is as if some one took a pallet of colors and wildly smeared it across the landscape.
August is rainbow time, almost daily some where you can see one, often doubles and rare but special are the triple rainbows.
Mid September through early October is the time to come hear the bull elk bugle. We are not talking about a distant lone bugle, we mean a chorus of bulls bugling all around the cabins and keeping you awake. It is an amazing time.
October is also when the Aspen trees change the mountains to shades of gold.
