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Campsite planning app offers new clues in case of missing woman Gabby Petito
A popular campsite planning app is providing new clues about the travels of a missing woman, Gabby Petito, before she disappeared.
KSL’s COLD podcast team has learned Petito, 22, used an app called The Dyrt to plan her cross-country road trip with boyfriend Brian Laundrie. Her public account on The Dyrt provides insight into the likely route the couple intended to take prior to Petito’s unsolved disappearance.
A review of Petito’s account by the COLD podcast team revealed several “lists” where she saved references to dispersed camping areas across Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Petito also wrote reviews after camping at some of those sites.
The “Utah” list includes 32 locations, far more than any of the other lists.
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On the outskirts of Arches National Park, was one of several in the vicinity of Moab, Utah marked by Gabby Petito.
The Moab area is significant in Petito and Laundrie’s travels, as it was the place where they had an encounter with police on Aug. 12.
The COLD team cannot confirm where Petito camped that night, however her The Dyrt account provides some potential clues. Petito had flagged possible campsites on U.S. 128 along the Colorado River, as well as in the Porcupine Rim area of the Manti-La Sal National Forest.
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Gabby Petito’s list on The Dyrt for “near Yellowstone” includes a location in between Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, in the John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway. The location sits in a meadow along Glade Creek a little over two miles southeast of Grassy Lake Reservoir.
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The next site to the north on Petito’s “near Yellowstone” list is a backcountry campsite, labeled 4R1, within the heart of Yellowstone National Park. Unlike many of the locations Petito had marked on the app, the 4R1 site was not a place where she and Laundrie could have camped out of their van.
An overnight stay at 4R1 would have required the couple to obtain a permit from the National Park Service. The COLD team cannot confirm whether or not the couple obtained such a permit or hiked in to Ribbon Lake.
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Petito’s lists on The Dyrt suggest she’d expected to exit Yellowstone National Park via the park’s west entrance. Her next place mark was the Targhee Creek Trailhead along U.S. Highway 20 east of Henry’s Lake State Park in Idaho.
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The remainder of Petito’s listed locations in The Dyrt app suggest she and Laundrie had intended to travel north from the vicinity of West Yellowstone, Montana toward Kalispell, Montana and Glacier National Park. Those included spots along Swan Lake and the North Fork of the Flathead River.
A popular campsite planning app is providing new clues about the travels of a missing woman, Gabby Petito, before she disappeared.
KSL’s COLD podcast team has learned Petito, 22, used an app called The Dyrt to plan her cross-country road trip with boyfriend Brian Laundrie. Her public account on The Dyrt provides insight into the likely route the couple intended to take prior to Petito’s unsolved disappearance.
A review of Petito’s account by the COLD podcast team revealed several “lists” where she saved references to dispersed camping areas across Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Petito also wrote reviews after camping at some of those sites.
The “Utah” list includes 32 locations, far more than any of the other lists.
….
On the outskirts of Arches National Park, was one of several in the vicinity of Moab, Utah marked by Gabby Petito.
The Moab area is significant in Petito and Laundrie’s travels, as it was the place where they had an encounter with police on Aug. 12.
The COLD team cannot confirm where Petito camped that night, however her The Dyrt account provides some potential clues. Petito had flagged possible campsites on U.S. 128 along the Colorado River, as well as in the Porcupine Rim area of the Manti-La Sal National Forest.
….
Gabby Petito’s list on The Dyrt for “near Yellowstone” includes a location in between Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, in the John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway. The location sits in a meadow along Glade Creek a little over two miles southeast of Grassy Lake Reservoir.
…
The next site to the north on Petito’s “near Yellowstone” list is a backcountry campsite, labeled 4R1, within the heart of Yellowstone National Park. Unlike many of the locations Petito had marked on the app, the 4R1 site was not a place where she and Laundrie could have camped out of their van.
An overnight stay at 4R1 would have required the couple to obtain a permit from the National Park Service. The COLD team cannot confirm whether or not the couple obtained such a permit or hiked in to Ribbon Lake.
…
Petito’s lists on The Dyrt suggest she’d expected to exit Yellowstone National Park via the park’s west entrance. Her next place mark was the Targhee Creek Trailhead along U.S. Highway 20 east of Henry’s Lake State Park in Idaho.
…
The remainder of Petito’s listed locations in The Dyrt app suggest she and Laundrie had intended to travel north from the vicinity of West Yellowstone, Montana toward Kalispell, Montana and Glacier National Park. Those included spots along Swan Lake and the North Fork of the Flathead River.
