Yellowstone Part 1
Yellowstone is such a huge park and there is so much to see there that I am going to break it into a couple of posts. We spent about 8 days in the Yellowstone area so we covered a lot of territory and have a lot of pictures. We spent the first four days at Henry's State Park in Idaho which is about 20 miles from the West Entrance to Yellowstone. So my first couple of pictures are from the campground.
Shots of the Madison River as you drive into the park from West Yellowstone.
Below are some pictures of the Old Faithful Inn and the Old Faithful geyser.
Sunset from the campground.
There were hundreds of beautiful prismatic springs throughout the park. We visited the Lower Basin, the Upper Basin and Norris Geyser Basin.
Next we have fumeroles and geysers of all shapes and sizes. I am not even going to try to post the names of the various pools and geysers since it has been nearly a month since we were there.
A Christmas Tree in August? Yep. Every year Yellowstone celebrates Christmas on August 25 to commemorate the year that a huge, freak snowstorm hit on August 25 and caused all roads in and out of Yellowstone to close. The staff and guests who were there made the best of it and began the Christmas in August tradition.
Gibbon Falls are incredible to watch.
We spent one full day at Mammoth Hot Springs which is in the Northwest corner of the park. The white that looks like ice is actually travertine. The Hot Springs are so full of minerals that it lays a layer of travertine over all surfaces that the water flows over. In the early days of Yellowstone, visitors who came in on stagecoaches would put souvenirs into the streams from the Hot Springs. When they were ready to leave 5 days later the horseshoes and knives that had been in the springs would be covered with white travertine.
We spent another full day in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Most of the pictures are from the rim trail. The pictures do not do justice to the beauty and the grandeur of this area.
Two of the many Ft. Yellowstone buildings that remain in Yellowstone. The top building is a visitor center now.
That does it for this post. Later I will post the pictures of all of the wildlife that we saw in Yellowstone Part 2.
There was a guy staying in our campground who had an ultralight airplane. It was fun watching him circle the campground.
We spent our first day at Yellowstone in the Old Faithful area.
Shots of the Madison River as you drive into the park from West Yellowstone.
Below are some pictures of the Old Faithful Inn and the Old Faithful geyser.
The chimney inside Old Faithful Inn
Old Faithful
Sunset from the campground.
There were hundreds of beautiful prismatic springs throughout the park. We visited the Lower Basin, the Upper Basin and Norris Geyser Basin.
Next we have fumeroles and geysers of all shapes and sizes. I am not even going to try to post the names of the various pools and geysers since it has been nearly a month since we were there.
A Christmas Tree in August? Yep. Every year Yellowstone celebrates Christmas on August 25 to commemorate the year that a huge, freak snowstorm hit on August 25 and caused all roads in and out of Yellowstone to close. The staff and guests who were there made the best of it and began the Christmas in August tradition.
Gibbon Falls are incredible to watch.
We spent one full day at Mammoth Hot Springs which is in the Northwest corner of the park. The white that looks like ice is actually travertine. The Hot Springs are so full of minerals that it lays a layer of travertine over all surfaces that the water flows over. In the early days of Yellowstone, visitors who came in on stagecoaches would put souvenirs into the streams from the Hot Springs. When they were ready to leave 5 days later the horseshoes and knives that had been in the springs would be covered with white travertine.
We spent another full day in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Most of the pictures are from the rim trail. The pictures do not do justice to the beauty and the grandeur of this area.
Two of the many Ft. Yellowstone buildings that remain in Yellowstone. The top building is a visitor center now.
That does it for this post. Later I will post the pictures of all of the wildlife that we saw in Yellowstone Part 2.
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