Yellowstone National Park
What a national park, its like a giant natural amusement park!!! Almost the entire park sits in an active volcano caldera, it gives you an eerie feeling but you quickly recover after seeing the geysers and wildlife! Now we understand why this is the most visited park (over 3 million people a year). We stayed most of our time between Flagg Ranch (south of Yellowstone and really in the middle of nowhere) and Fishing Bridge RV Park (close to the center of the park). We preferred the more central location. We spent 4 intense days and didn’t get a chance to do a hike, there are so many miles of roads and sites to see (we drove over 600 miles just in the park and its neighbor Grand Teton).
Wildlife is abundant. We saw moose, elk, bison, a black bear with two cubs, a grizzly bear, a wolf, coyotes, pelicans, ravens and many other birds / small rodents. One of our favorite was viewing (or trying to) wildlife in the early morning or 2 hours before sun set. It’s something we want to return and do more in the future but with a higher powered scope to see more….. what really amazed me was the openness of other people to share their equipment to view the animals better, we meet a great cross-section of people from all over the US.
We had a banner day seeing 11 different geysers erupt in the Old Faithful basin. It was an incredible day when all the geyser times aligned. If you go to Yellowstone, find the nearest ranger station and ask for a run down on the geysers for the day, they will give you prediction times for the major ones ( +/- the prediction error, it can be up to +/- 1 hour) and have a fun day chasing them down. There are several other geyser basins each with their own spin (check out our pictures). Two notes, the smell of sulpher sometimes gets thick, it makes me hungry and Taryn nauseous (but she got use to it) and when you pick your location to view the geysers stay up wind, you can get wet at some of them! Yellowstone also has some great rivers and its own “Grand Canyon”. Awesome views and make sure to take the Uncle Tom’s trail to the lower falls in the canyon, be ready for a stair master work out!
There is just to much to write about on this park, we’ll let the pictures speak for themselves……. Check out the next post for the Kodak gallery . K&T
Wildlife is abundant. We saw moose, elk, bison, a black bear with two cubs, a grizzly bear, a wolf, coyotes, pelicans, ravens and many other birds / small rodents. One of our favorite was viewing (or trying to) wildlife in the early morning or 2 hours before sun set. It’s something we want to return and do more in the future but with a higher powered scope to see more….. what really amazed me was the openness of other people to share their equipment to view the animals better, we meet a great cross-section of people from all over the US.
We had a banner day seeing 11 different geysers erupt in the Old Faithful basin. It was an incredible day when all the geyser times aligned. If you go to Yellowstone, find the nearest ranger station and ask for a run down on the geysers for the day, they will give you prediction times for the major ones ( +/- the prediction error, it can be up to +/- 1 hour) and have a fun day chasing them down. There are several other geyser basins each with their own spin (check out our pictures). Two notes, the smell of sulpher sometimes gets thick, it makes me hungry and Taryn nauseous (but she got use to it) and when you pick your location to view the geysers stay up wind, you can get wet at some of them! Yellowstone also has some great rivers and its own “Grand Canyon”. Awesome views and make sure to take the Uncle Tom’s trail to the lower falls in the canyon, be ready for a stair master work out!
There is just to much to write about on this park, we’ll let the pictures speak for themselves……. Check out the next post for the Kodak gallery . K&T
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