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Yellowstone: A Bucket List Must-Do


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23 hours ago, Tom Cherry said:

Done YNP twice...one in a tent and one in a MH.  We stated at a park in the NW corner in West Yellowstone.  GREAT.  We drove up from Idaho falls....really great drive.  We left via going North and crossing Montana to avoid the grades.  Stopped at Custer's Last Stand.  That was awesome.  Had our daughter and two teenage GK's with us.  

The photos below were taken from our 2008 Hummer...  We leaned out the sunroof and took them.  Buffalo was just out "wandering"....then the traffic was one lane and we passed....see the bronze car in front....and the shot from the window as we passed him....

NEVER MESS WITH THE WILDLIFE....Too many injuries and deaths.  

We toured the "Lodge" at Old Faithful and ate there.  There are ranger walks everywhere.  One of the most interesting were the pools around Old Faithful.  The "Grand Canyon" of the north of the falls at Yellowstone are awesome.  We spent at least 5 days inside the park....as well as take a day trip down to the Tetons.  If you every want to "see" amber waves of grain....  the trip down from West Jefferson when you go in the back way...STEEP GRADE to Jackson (Hole) is truly inspiring.  I take a LOT of photographs...but I never even tried to catch the majesty of the grain fields and the grain gently swaying back and forth.  Something that Google or Apple could do for a slow motion video from a drone....

Enjoy....a trip worth taking....  FWIW....the first Yellowstone trip was in the early summer....and the fire season had hit Rocky Mountain NP and we left early and headed to YS.  The second was in Early August, 2015.  If you are a "geo" whatever buff, we drove over to Idaho from Salt Lake city and spent the night near Craters of the Moon....and then drove up.  There is a "restricted area there that rivals a few of the NE states combined.  Busses with blacked out windows carrying in workers to secret operations....and the GPS didn't exactly work....We replenished our supplies in Idaho Falls.  That Walmart was one more big FREE RV Site.  I have never seen that many RV's at a Walmart before....

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We ate at the Old Faithful Lodge as well, and the food was pure shyte. We were told that everything changed because of Covid, which seemed to be the excuse given for a lot of the restaurants.

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