Hello Folks!
This summer my fiancée and I will be taking 2 road trips, one to Wisconsin the weekend after the 4th of July for 3 days, and to the Black Hills in South Dakota for our honeymoon at the end of August for 5-6 days.
We will be driving through Nebraska and Iowa on our way to WI for a family reunion in the Eau Claire area. Its my fiancées extended family whom I've met none of them. Dunno what they are going to think of her 2A lovin', pistol packin' soon-to-be-husband lol. I'm close to her immediate family here in CO and they are gun owners and accepting of carry rights. We are camping Friday night, then family reunion Saturday at some local park (I don't have the name of it with me), staying at another campground that night, then heading back home Sunday morning. I'm going to do my best to stay away from Illinois while we are on the road!
For the Black Hills, we are staying at various places in cabins and tent camping. Planning on staying 2 nights at Custer State Park. Visiting places such as Deadwood, Keystone, ride the 1880 Train to Hill City for lunch, train back to Keystone, visit various National Parks and National Monuments (i know not to carry inside the buildings!), the usual tourist traps, lots of hiking in the National Forest. Hope to catch the Wild Bill shooting reenactment!
I've done a little bit of research on open carrying in those states and have posted in the WI and SD sub forums about how OC is accepted there and the do's and don'ts and if anything is different than here in CO. Well, the sub forums in those states can be a bit slow in responding. For South Dakota, I found that carrying in an establishment that gets a large chunk of its revenues from alcohol sales is prohibited, but that OC is legal statewide and seems it's pretty similar to OC in Colorado. For NE and IA, we are only stopping for fuel, food, and to use the facilities before hitting the road again. Sounds to me that Nebraska is OC friendly and Iowa is questionable with permitted OC. I've been looking for a reliable iPhone app that lists gun laws by state. I have a CO CHP and the states we are visiting have reciprocity.
I know this thread is a bit off topic for the Colorado sub forum, but I would like to see if any of my OCDO Colorado friends have OC'ed in these states before and if so, how it went. I'm still doing my research and checking laws, and I thought I'd chime in and see what you guys had to say.
Blessings,
Keens
This summer my fiancée and I will be taking 2 road trips, one to Wisconsin the weekend after the 4th of July for 3 days, and to the Black Hills in South Dakota for our honeymoon at the end of August for 5-6 days.
We will be driving through Nebraska and Iowa on our way to WI for a family reunion in the Eau Claire area. Its my fiancées extended family whom I've met none of them. Dunno what they are going to think of her 2A lovin', pistol packin' soon-to-be-husband lol. I'm close to her immediate family here in CO and they are gun owners and accepting of carry rights. We are camping Friday night, then family reunion Saturday at some local park (I don't have the name of it with me), staying at another campground that night, then heading back home Sunday morning. I'm going to do my best to stay away from Illinois while we are on the road!
For the Black Hills, we are staying at various places in cabins and tent camping. Planning on staying 2 nights at Custer State Park. Visiting places such as Deadwood, Keystone, ride the 1880 Train to Hill City for lunch, train back to Keystone, visit various National Parks and National Monuments (i know not to carry inside the buildings!), the usual tourist traps, lots of hiking in the National Forest. Hope to catch the Wild Bill shooting reenactment!
I've done a little bit of research on open carrying in those states and have posted in the WI and SD sub forums about how OC is accepted there and the do's and don'ts and if anything is different than here in CO. Well, the sub forums in those states can be a bit slow in responding. For South Dakota, I found that carrying in an establishment that gets a large chunk of its revenues from alcohol sales is prohibited, but that OC is legal statewide and seems it's pretty similar to OC in Colorado. For NE and IA, we are only stopping for fuel, food, and to use the facilities before hitting the road again. Sounds to me that Nebraska is OC friendly and Iowa is questionable with permitted OC. I've been looking for a reliable iPhone app that lists gun laws by state. I have a CO CHP and the states we are visiting have reciprocity.
I know this thread is a bit off topic for the Colorado sub forum, but I would like to see if any of my OCDO Colorado friends have OC'ed in these states before and if so, how it went. I'm still doing my research and checking laws, and I thought I'd chime in and see what you guys had to say.
Blessings,
Keens