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Geysers/hot springs   Yellowstone National Park

Geysers/hot springs, Yellowstone National Park

 207 Reviews  Our last stop was lower Geyser Basin. My grandson went all around the Fountain Paint Pot trail with the guide and was able to see all five kinds of thermal features - bubbling mud pots, hot springs,... 

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Mammoth Hot Springs   Yellowstone National Park

Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park

 83 Reviews  The Lower Terrace of Mammoth Hot Springs was our first stop of the day. We arrived early morning, just as the big tour groups were hurrying people back into the buses. It was a nice time to explore,... 

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Old Faithful   Yellowstone National Park

Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park

 55 Reviews  There are many "one must thing to do" points of interest in Yellowstone National Park but the one that is truly faithful and it is surly old has to be the one and only "Old Faithful Geyser". This... 

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Morning Glory Pool   Yellowstone National Park

Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park

 16 Reviews  The Morning Glory Pool is only 1.4 miles from the Old Faithful Visitors Center by way of a partial boardwalk partial paved path. Along the way you will pass many of Yellowstone?s notable geysers like... 

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Grand Canyon   Yellowstone National Park

Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park

 80 Reviews  The Yellowstone Grand Canyon isn't the same as the other bigger one in Arizona, and the part that most people photograph are the falls, but they will have another review of their own. This Grand... 

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Tower Falls   Yellowstone National Park

Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park

 22 Reviews  Seeing so many elk in one place (especially in the middle of the village) was a thrilling treat, but what waited for us on the way to Tower Falls just blew us away. The 24-mile drive takes you along... 

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Wildlife   Yellowstone National Park

Wildlife, Yellowstone National Park

 94 Reviews  Welcome to VT. I've been traveling to both Yellowstone and GTNP since '92 - sometimes up to 3 times a year to photograph wildlife and enjoy the park. I'll answer some of your questions but would... 

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Hayden Valley   Yellowstone National Park

Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park

 14 Reviews  One of the place we stopped on the Ring of Fire tour was Hayden Valley - we stopped to take photos of the bison. Hayden Valley is a large, sub-alpine valley along the Yellowstone River between... 

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Waterfalls   Yellowstone National Park

Waterfalls, Yellowstone National Park

 49 Reviews  After we checked into the hotel and had lunch, we drove down toward the Grand Teton National Park. We stopped at the Kepler Cascades and I went and took some photos while my grandmother waited in the... 

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Yellowstone Lake   Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park

 19 Reviews  under construction Yellowstone Lake is the largest lake at high elevation (i.e., more than 7,000 ft.) in North America. It is a natural lake, situated at 7,733 ft. above sea level. It is roughly 20... 

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Old Faithful Inn   Yellowstone National Park

Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park

 9 Reviews  My daughter told me that I needed to make a reservation a year in advance, and so I made the reservation as soon as I decided to go. I had a hard time because I wanted two beds (I was going to be... 

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Roosevelt Arch   Yellowstone National Park

Roosevelt Arch, Yellowstone National Park

 7 Reviews  In the early years of Yellowstone National Park, most visitors entered via the North Entrance at Gardiner, Montana. Because the number of visitors entering this way rose even higher following the... 

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Outside the park   Yellowstone National Park

Outside the park, Yellowstone National Park

 7 Reviews  It was only 15-minutes later and almost high noon when we came across this huge herd of Mountain Goats – I’d never before seen that many in one place, and apparently none of the many other spectators... 

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Petrified Trees   Yellowstone National Park

Petrified Trees, Yellowstone National Park

 7 Reviews  A short walk near Tower junction are some petrified trees. Cool - trees that are so old they are now rocks (how many years ago were they trees I wonder?). Not insignificant sized trees either. I did... 

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Mt. Washburn   Yellowstone National Park

Mt. Washburn, Yellowstone National Park

 7 Reviews  We started out in mid-morning. Reached the top and enjoyed a picnic lunch looking over the park. We noticed clouds to the west, so we started down. Halfway back, it started to snow (few flakes), but... 

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Rivers   Yellowstone National Park

Rivers, Yellowstone National Park

 15 Reviews  On the way from West Yellowstone to the Old Faithful Inn, I took a picture of an old fisherman with a Santa Claus beard fishing in the river (photo 3). We stopped at Black Sand Basin on the morning of... 

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West Yellowstone   Yellowstone National Park

West Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park

 8 Reviews  We arrived and departed through West Yellowstone because it had the closest airport to the park entrance. I didn't want to drive great distances as the only licensed driver. When we arrived, we picked... 

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Buildings/Vistor Centers   Yellowstone National Park

Buildings/Vistor Centers, Yellowstone National Park

 14 Reviews  Yellowstone is a huge park and so the Park Service has several different visitor's centers distributed throughout the park. Each one is a little different in orientation so you could go to all of... 

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Flora   Yellowstone National Park

Flora, Yellowstone National Park

 4 Reviews  The driver guide told us that there were three main kinds of tree (all conifers). The most common is the Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta). There are also Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and... 

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Meet the mountain man in Pinedale (II)

by kokoryko

The Sublette County tourist information office is located in Pinedale, and Pinedale is a sort of a “hub” for many hikers, trekkers and climbers going in the Wind River Range in July and August; there are shops and dealers who rent or sell equipment for winter sports (hell!!, snowmobile!! one of the last things I would think about to do!!) . People I met here are very kind and helpful for the foreigners, they just found it strange and a bit unconscious of me to want to trek here beginning October.(The guidebooks and rangers tell about trekking in July and August only, but I can imagine it is a bit crowded at that time, and I had some special reason to do it in October).Pinedale is worth a stop for the traveller, only for the Mountain Man Museum here, if he is in a hurry; this is an excellent museum where one can learn a lot about the time of the mountain men, the people who hunted beavers...

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Meet the mountain man in Pinedale

by kokoryko

Pinedale is a little town located in Sublette County on the Southern foothills of the Wind River Range. I visited it twice during my travels in Wyoming and a few interesting places in the city and surrounding are worth a stop if you happen to pass by.Ah, for a European like me, it is a bit an exotic place, with its wooden houses, the long, very long main street, the shops, bars and restaurants bordering this street.The snow covered mountains not far from here appealed me (in fact, I planned to start my trek in the Winds from here, after having looked at a few websites), and it is here I made the last shopping before my trek.If by chance you pass by in July, you will have the opportunity to attend the “Green River Rendezvous”: Rendezvous were a tradition during mountain men times when the trappers, Indians and traders met yearly (each year in a different place at that time) for a sort of...

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Sinks Canyon: the river disappears. . . . .

by kokoryko

South east of Lander an interesting natural phenomenon can be observed: the Popo Agie River disappears in a huge cave (une perte in French, a sink in English) and reappears one half mile downstream (une résurgence, a resurgence). The Popo Agie River flows there in a subterranean system it carved through time in the limestone of the area. It is a quite impressive place, as the waters flow very fast, roaring down the narrow valley and you can see it going into the underground. There is a little information centre nearby (closed when I was there) and there is a little trail following the almost dry river bed from the sink to the resurgence. Explanation boards about geology, trees, birds and other animals are fitted along the trail. Sinks Canyon was used since pre-historic times as a way to cross the Wind River Range, and on some places are petroglyphs carved by the early inhabitants of the...

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A hike in Deep Creek

by kokoryko

South of Lander, on the north side of the Winds are very wide plateau areas cut here and there by narrow canyons, and Deep Creek is just one of them.The area is rather dry and there are trees and green grass (in Autumn) only in the creeks, the slopes and hills have only dry grass where it is easy to walk. A few cattle can be spotted here and there in the canyon.Deep creek has its mouth going into Red Canyon which shows beautiful red colors on its northern walls, and “reading” the strata is quite easy. Side canyons or creeks are also marked by green trees and only a few junipers grow on the hills. Deep creek is the place where I spotted “my” first real cow boy in Wyoming. . . . haha; he was very far rounding up his cattle.To go there: 14 miles South East of Lander. Drive 4 miles south East of Lander on road 287, turn right at the junction with road 28, drive up 8-9 miles till a small pass...

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Gas fields

by kokoryko

There is oil in the Green River Basin, but since a few years there is a boom for natural gas in this area; in 2000, the basin produced 100000000 cubic feet per day (again the American oil and gas industry measuring units!), now it produces 0.6bfpd (haha, acronym for Billion Cubic Feet Per Day) , and the reserves grew from 1 TCF to more than 5 TCF (Trillion Cubic Feet), and are still growing with very active drilling; with the gas price indexed on oil prices, there are some individuals and companies who will soon make lots of money! This is reflected by the number of drilling rigs you may spot in a triangle between Farson, Pinedale and Mappleton. Many trucks transporting gas field equipment circulate on the roads of the area.I am a nature lover, a person who has respect for nature, but I believe in progress and civilization, and we all want to live in warm houses during winter. . . No?...

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Old oil fields

by kokoryko

If you wander around in the Wind River Basin, you may see a lot of these donkey heads, I mean the oil well pumps, in the backcountry. It is not Texas (Panhandle area, or Galveston), of course, but oil contributes to the wellness of Wyoming since 80 years and is part of the heritage of this state in some way. The nature aggressions of oil production are not that bad in this open range place; few roads are built for access, exploration work is carried out before, there are (quite loose, in fact) environmental rules, and in fact, you have to look carefully in the landscapes to see some of them.Wyoming produces 140000 barrels per day (The barrel per day is the base unit in oil industry, do not tell about tons, tons per year, cubic meters, etc. . . the American oil industry knows only the barrel); the production was higher in the sixties, up to 250000, which in fact “fed” about 4-5 percent of...

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Absaroka Range

by kokoryko

This is a high plateau made up of volcanic rocks emitted from the Yellowstone hot spot (see my Yellowstone page about the “hot spot”). Erosion of these rocks gives high rugged cliffs, difficult to climb; the valleys in contrary are very flat, have a smooth calm relief. I had only a short (2 hours) walk in this mountain in the Dubois area; 5 miles south of Dubois, turn left, and drive up 4-5 miles and park your car on the road side, when arriving at a broad wide valley; Absaroka is real wilderness, and I hesitated for my trek between this area and Wind River, but I was told it was hunting season and in the Absaroka there are many more hunters (I did not want to be confused with a moose or a deer! No, no, I do not wear horns! haha) than in the Winds. Ah, and they are less high than the Winds, the sceneries are spectacular, from what I have seen in books, but I had to make a choice. First...

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Owl Creek Mountains

by kokoryko

In North Wyoming the Owl Creek Mountains separate the Wind River Basin from the Big Horn Basin. At Blondie Pass, with fine weather, the view is beautiful extending from the Wind River Range, 80 km south west, to the Big Horn Mountains 100 km North East. The wind is blowing quite strongly on the pass and good wind cutting clothes are necessary. To reach Blondie pass, there is a dirt road, passable with normal vehicle; leave Lander North West on US road 287, after 35 km turn right on Interstate road 26 direction Riverton for 8 km; then, left, follow Maverick spring road which soon becomes a dirt road; there are a few crossings but keep driving North, and Shotgun Butte on your right, the road will begin to climb with narrow turns. There is wind and, East or West, there are wide meadows, high cliffs, and there are lots of hikes to be done from there, one or two hours hikes or longer ones....

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Local Rodeo

by kop-queen

Wyoming is home to cowboys and where there are cowboys there are rodeos. Many of the main towns have their own rodeo parks and attract professional riders but if you keep alert you may happen upon a local event like we did. Competitors were mainly local but some had travelled farther afield to this annual calf roping event which was held in memory of a local and there was a prize of a saddle to the overall winner. The oldest competitor we were told was 84 so I guess age is no barrier!We spent a very enjoyable few hours there and were kept well informed by the very friendly spectators.

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Guernsey State Park

by kop-queen

We came upon this by accident but were pleased we decided to change our planned route to take in the drive around some of the park. It was virtually deserted apart from a few water sport people who appeared to have brought their own boats. It offers campgrounds and a large expanse of water for boating or water skiing. Hiking trails, bird watching, fishing and some lovely scenery.There is a dam which was built around 1926 which created the lake. There is also a museum though we didn't visit it.

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A: Yellowstone is much bigger than the Grand Tetons. The Tetons are beautiful and one of the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen was over those mountains as a kid, and I... 

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