Gardiner, United States Travel Blogs

Yellowstone National Park
Aug 14, 2007 (20 photos)

Gardiner is a really small town on the northwest border of Yellowstone.  The entrance gate is 4 blocks from where we are camped.  It's a really cute town with friendly people and it is beautiful too with the Yellowstone river running thru the ...

Yellowstone, quickly
Aug 26, 2009 (1 photos)

... National Park, lots of road construction delays. Saw some buffalo and elk, were awed by the scenery. Exited through north gate for the first time, loved Gardiner and the drive north through Montana. Will spend the weekend near Glacier National Park.

pre-trip planning
Jul 4, 2005 (3 photos)

We are still in New York packing, actually we are on the internet filling out this travelogue!

A weekend in Gardiner
Jul 10, 2008 (2 photos)

We spent a weekend in Gardiner in the middle of our trip. Gardiner is a friendly small western town that is just on the other side of the Roosevelt Arch- you can walk to everything in the town. We took a great white water rafting trip with Flying Pig ...

Yellowstone suite et fin
Aug 6, 2008 (22 photos)

Retour au parc par la porte Nord, marquée par une belle arche construite par Roosevelt qui aimait beaucoup l'endroit et a voulu le faire connaître: le parc a plus de cent ans! Cap sur la région nord-est la moins touchée par les feux et où nous dit-on on voit ...

The Cottage by the Strait
Jul 30, 2006 (33 photos)

What's it like to stay in a place you wanted to stay for years? Pleasant, that's the case. Juan de Fuca Cottages, overlook Dungeness Spit, overlook the Straits of Juan de Fuca, well just over there is Canada. Pretty blue cottages by the sea, pretty ...

Last Day in Yellowstone
Jul 29, 2008 (29 photos)

We got to sleep in on this day.  Well, some of us.  Matt decided to go for a sunrise walk around Beaver Ponds Trail.  He borrowed some bear spray from Macneil just in case he came across some bears and we didn't even hear him head out. ...

A few more animals and a few BIG waterfalls.
Jul 28, 2008 (44 photos)

We started the day a bit earlier than was on the itinerary because we wanted to head back to the possible hunt site from the night before.  The wildlife did not disappoint us!  We saw another black bear.  At a bear jam, I saw a mother and ...

Mellow Out
Jul 29, 2006 (15 photos)

Out of Coupeville, let's go this way, never been this road before, what's this turn? Viewpoint, so it says. Park behind the shrubbery, walk around. My word! Here's the land they saw, here's why they settled here! The farm spreads out, hill to hill, is ...

Yellowstone National Park
Oct 8, 2009 (168 photos)

Der absolute Hammer...auch unser zweiter, dritter und vierter Tag im Yellowstone waren traumhaft, unbeschreiblich, spannend und dieses Mal hat sogar das Wetter mitgespielt. Wir haetten locker 1000 Fotos machen koennen, haben uns aber auf 200 beschraenkt ...

Day 4 Trails Through Yellowstone
Sep 18, 2007 (7 photos)

On our last day we hiked along the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone to the Lower and Upper Falls.  The week has gone by very fast, giving us spectacular hikes, interesting conversation, and a lifelong appreciation of Yellowstone.& ...

We're not lost!
Oct 19, 2007 (10 photos)

... quite a bit of snow and there are "severe wind advisories" out for the whole region for tomorrow. So, here we are in Gardiner - the northern gate to Yellowstone, having gone round/through more sets of snow covered mountains. It was windy on the way down, ...

Day 2 Trails Through Yellowstone
Sep 18, 2007 (7 photos)

Ashea drove us through Hayden Valley today where we briefly spotted the Hayden wolf pack alpha female.  Ashea entertained and informed us of the history of wolves in Yellowstone, and their vital role in the ecosystem.  We had an ...

Yellowstone... We Made It!
May 19, 2008 (54 photos)

... the resulting formations are spectacular! *We saw a few elk wandering around old Fort Yellowstone (the park was once maintained by the United States Army). The old buildings are fantastic.  *It was very warm today - -- 30C/88F - N and I both ...

Back in Gardiner
May 20, 2008

We started our return trip from Yellowstone National Park to Gardiner  about 6:30. It took us close to 2 hours to get back partly because of picture taking moments, and partly because of the low speed.   We both were both glad to get ...

It's a Bear!!!
Jun 23, 2009 (11 photos)

... continued to be a problem for her. -    Entered Yellowstone National Park, the first National Park of the United States established in 1872, right before  sunset. -    Had a coyote sighting immediately. We all three ...

A walk on the wildside
Mar 21, 2008

Absolutely cannot believe our good fortune today. Awoke in dull Livingston this morning to discover that the originally drab looking town had been transformed thanks to a night of seemingly constant snow. Still we were glad to leave and get on Hwy 89 ...

Yellowstone NP - bjoerneland
Aug 1, 2007 (16 photos)

Yellowstone NP blev nu indtaget efter endnu en fantastisk smuk køretur gennem imponerende landskaber. Yellowstone er en nationalpark i Wyoming på størrelse med Sjælland, Lolland og Falster med et meget varieret landskab og et rigt dyreliv. Vi havde i ...

SKYDIVING!!!!
Aug 21, 2005 (3 photos)

I realized what I was gonna do when I was getting into the plane. I saw a couple of people jumping before me and I was like: oh mummy, now or never! On my back there was an instuctor so I felt safer. I don`t really remember first a few seconds of my dive ...

Yellowstone
Aug 31, 2005

Day 6 A day off to rest and relax Day 7 We take a white water rafting trip down the Yellowstone River. We wear wet suits and enjoy the day.

Yellowstone
Aug 26, 2005 (5 photos)

Day 1 We camp on the Yellowstone River on the north side of Yellowstone. The boys head down to the river to fish. Preston catches a huge trout. **we are very surprised to see all the devastation from the 1988 fire Day 2 We stop at the visitors center ...

Day 4 - Gardiner, MT to Cody, WY
Jul 13, 2009 (4 photos)

Yellowstone is beyond imagining !! It escapes me to envision what the early explorers and pioneers must have thought coming upon these wonders ! It is like being in your own dinosaur movie with roaring geysers and boiling mudpots and colors beneath hot ...

Yellowstone!
Aug 20, 2008 (64 photos)

... for the rest of my life. Our afternoon was spent on the Beartooth Highway - surely the most impressive road in the United States.  Our historian Ed Bearrs travelled it in 1935, and his stories are hilarious and incredible. We had ...

Yellowstone National Park
Mar 20, 2008

The small town of Gardiner has a very big attraction right next to it. The strange lands of Yellowstone park with it's abundance in large wildlife.

Rafting and Mammoth Springs
Sep 6, 2009 (10 photos)

We departed from our hotel after a waffle breakfast at 9ish. We drove about 2 hours in a loop to get to Norris because the road was closed.  We went to xxx geyser and the Artist Paint Pot.  The Artist Paint Pot was a little disappointing... The ...

From Dawn to Dusk
Aug 10, 2009

... Lake Lodge where we had our lunch and took memorable pictures of preserved bears and the table where the peace agreement between the United states and Russia (1989) was made. By the way, the forest smelled like nature up to this point! Good morning, nature ...

Yellowstone
Sep 15, 2008

Bighorn

Yellowstone: Wed thru Fri
Aug 12, 2009 (12 photos)

We were going to visit Yellowstone on our way home but decided since we were so close that we would do it on our way to Glacier.  The trip was another easy day for Terry (all my days are easy since I just look at scenery, snooze, read or check emails ...

Gardiner
Oct 7, 2008 (8 photos)

... Niet irritant, maar zeker geen MacDonalds, maar goed het eten was goed te pruimen gelukkig. Na dit avondeten gingen we naar Gardiner, dit bleek een leuk dorpje te zijn. Genoeg keuzes om te overnachten, uiteindelijk kozen we voor het Super 8 Motel. Ze ...

We get to see a Black Bear
May 31, 2007 (11 photos)

... we'd have missed him. Fantastic sight. We'll try and upload it to YouTube - see how hip we are? The Super 8 at Gardiner was ok - we met a German couple on a three vacation doing a square route from Portland Oregon - they were heading up to Canada next ...