Yellowstone National Park, United States Travel Blogs

Yellowstone!! Searching for Bears, Wolves & Moose!
Aug 11, 2008 (141 photos)

We awoke early freezing cold again! We got up early and headed for Yellowstone, the campsites are allocated the same as Glacier National Park, on a first come first served basis. They also don't have hook ups, hence the generator.  http://en.wikipedia ...

Tuesday 22 July
Jul 30, 2008 (14 photos)

... hill later on we saw a whole group of cars and people staring at something across the valley.  When you are in Yellowstone and you see this happening it is well worth stopping because they have obviously seen something worth looking at. In many cases ...

Old Faithful Blew for us!
Sep 5, 2009 (8 photos)

We raced to the site because an old man's bladder requires attention. Three minutes later, Old Faithful went off. Talk about a stroke of luck. Caught the eruption in sequence for you (and only you!)

Yellowstone National Park
Aug 21, 2009 (22 photos)

... with the magma chamber only 3 miles below. This is the reason for all the volcanic activity and why in 1871 they made it a National Park long before the area was settled  We then left the park on the east side towards our camp site.  The ...

Grand Tetons and Yellowstone by Richard
May 15, 2009 (5 photos)

Heading north from Jackson we spent a day driving through Grand Tetons National Park, stopping at various viewpoints to admire the mammarian qualities of the Grand Teton Range. (Look up a French dictionary). We started to walk to Jenny Lake, trudging ...

Jul 9, 2009 (7 photos)

USA
Jul 30, 2009 (39 photos)

Check back later to see if we've spotted Yogi and friends!

Yellowstone National Park
Jul 10, 2008 (20 photos)

... Faithful, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone (especially the hike to the brink of the Lower Falls), Lamar and Hayden valleys, Yellowstone Lake and back road drives like Firehole Canyon Drive.   Wildlife sightings: MANY elk, MANY bison, marmots, black ...

Artist's Paint Pots
Sep 4, 2009 (14 photos)

Road closures in the Park are a PITA!! 100 miles to go 40 miles! Worth the extra miles though. If we hadn't won in Reno I would be more pissed .... Still a beautiful way to start the day!

What a load of hot air!!!!!!!
Jul 11, 2006 (14 photos)

... mud - pretty cool, breathing dragon caves - awesome!!! Now for the supposed highlight..... the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone - a mellow walk apparently....... a mellow walk that had warning signs plastered all over it warning of the dangers of over ...

Day Two Hundred Eight
May 22, 2005

Camped at Norris Campground after watching Old Faithful and awoke to the sound of thunder from a herd of buffalo rampaging the campground.

First Day of Yellowstone
Jul 10, 2008

Today we drove from Cody to Yellowstone. We arrived through the east entrance and drove through the park to Grant Village campsite. On the way we saw Yellowstone lake which lengthened our journey and tons of water falls. We arrived at the campsite and ...

Yellowstone, quickly
Aug 26, 2009 (1 photos)

... morning (well not really early at all, lots of hugging the boys good-bye) and headed north. Drove slowly through Yellowstone National Park, lots of road construction delays. Saw some buffalo and elk, were awed by the scenery. Exited through north gate for ...

We made it to Yellowstone!
Jun 21, 2008 (9 photos)

We arrived in Yellowstone around 10:30am today and after entering the park, we stopped at the first pullover, which led to a very short walk to Moose Falls.  The kids were more excited about the snow patch on the ground (it was even old and dirty) ...

Yellowstone
Jul 8, 2008 (22 photos)

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Elk Jam
Jul 15, 2009 (13 photos)

... be a simple "drive in the park." Not so. The objective for today's travel was to see the sights of Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park (which share a common border) and comprise an area greater than Delaware. We began the day getting our ...

How many different mammals can you see in one day?
Jun 23, 2008 (6 photos)

... to head toward Yellowstone's Northern Range to look for some wolves.  The super nice benefit in participating with this Yellowstone for Families program is that they provided the telescopes and binoculars and without those, it wouldn't have been as ...

Yellowstone National Park
Sep 8, 2008 (13 photos)

We spent one night at Logan State Park after leaving Glacier National Park.  This was a lovely reserve next to a lake and just off the highway.  The Kids enjoyed riding their bikes and playing horseshoes.  There were quite a few fishermen ...

Experiencing Yellowstone NP
Aug 8, 2008 (2 photos)

The air was full of smoke from the wildland fire north of us so we headed out on the Grand Loop stopping first at the West Thumb thermal pools.  The colors were amazing.  Several Elk were around while we checked out each new pool.  We then ...

Naturpark - Yogi Bear, Geysere, Vandfald mm
Jul 15, 2008 (24 photos)

... masse gejsere(bl.a. Old Faithful, som der er billeder af), samt en hel fantastisk natur. I 1988 var der en stor brand i Yellowstone, hvilket parken er tydeligt mærket af. Mange steder står der utrolig mange helt tynde døde træer, fordi de nyplantede gran træ ...

Day 7; Grizzlies, Bison, Moose, Elk and a Canyon!
Jul 28, 2009 (18 photos)

... tourists! The view from Artists Point was just Wow! This is the most famous viewpoint of the Lower Falls, where the Yellowstone River plummets 308ft, that's twice the height of Niagra Falls. The Lower Falls are just breathtaking. We then went on to the ...

Day 6; Old Faithful & the Upper Geyser Basin
Jul 27, 2009 (16 photos)

... one road Wild West town, and ended up queueing in 4 lanes of traffic to actually enter the park. After we'd bought our annual national Park Pass we were in. We'd started off in Idaho, in our house, quickly moved into Montana, and was entering Wyoming soon ...

The Yellowstone Road
Aug 10, 2008 (3 photos)

... I saw a sign - Rest Area 1/2 Mile.  Then it cleared up.  Very freaking funny. Next up was the grand entrance into Yellowstone, by way of the Beartooth Highway, which is a VERY winding road that runs through the Beartooth Pass in the Absaroka Range at 10, ...

Some friends stop by...
Jun 22, 2008 (3 photos)

In the evening, while we were just about to go to be, there was rustling outside of the cabin.  Elks came right into the center of our "Cabin Court" to graze! What a sight!

Yellowstone NP
Sep 18, 2007 (4 photos)

... on the Big Horn Mtns so we changed from the scenic route to I-90 through Montana to the North entrance of Yellowstone National Park.  We met our Yellowstone Institute guide, Ashea and our fellow hikers at a Sept 10  orientation to Trails ...

Labor Day Weekend .... what were we thinking?
Sep 6, 2009 (37 photos)

Crowds hit yesterday afternoon and getting around was tough but today? There are no people left in the I states! Iowa, Idaho and Illinois are responsible for 70 percent of the vehicles here but maybe 4 percent of the brainpower. They have kids hanging out ...

Second day of Yellowstone Geysers
Jul 13, 2008

... . Today we woke up to have it freeezing. We woke up and made a fire. Then we set off to do the lower loop of Yellowstone. On the road we saw lots of bison. We made our way to Old Faithful. Just for you're infromation old faithful goes off every 90 ...

Beauty Surrounds - Yellowstone National Park
Sep 2, 2009 (130 photos)

... more time to do more hikes. First thing we needed a decent coffee and then we were outward bound from Yellowstone National Park. The route we chose was through Grand Teton just so we could get a feel for that park. It definitely wasn't all ...

Yellowstone 2nd attempt
May 28, 2009

... they make only sweeten the experience. Once I left, I headed to South Dakota, it was pretty much directly East from Yellowstone so away I went. Wyoming has some pretty cool drives but it also has some damn right scary 1's. Driving up to 10,000ft on ...

We are in God's country, no doubt
Sep 3, 2009 (18 photos)

... decended into Jackson, WY (what a yuppie tourist trap, didn't even stop!) A bit down the road from Jackson is Grand Teton National Park. An hour or two north and you're in Yellowstone ..... Entering Yellowstone we were delayed for an hour by a ...