Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Yellowstone is a huge place, we’ll break this up into a couple posts. Yellowstone is America’s first Nation Park established in 1872. Located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, it is home to a large variety of wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. Preserved within Yellowstone National Park are Old Faithful and a collection of the world's most extraordinary geysers and hot springs, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. With half of the earth’s geothermal features, Yellowstone holds the planet’s most diverse and intact collection of geysers, hot springs, mudpots, and fumaroles. Its more than 300 geysers make up two thirds of all those found on earth. Combine this with more than 10,000 thermal features comprised of brilliantly colored hot springs, bubbling mudpots, and steaming fumaroles, and you have a place like no other.

This is our campsite, me and the kids climbed the hill across the street to take this picture. If you look close you can see Jane looking for us. Opps.. I forgot to tell her where we were going.

This is Mammoth Hot Springs, the water here boils up from deep in the earth and creates the terraces. The water reaches temperature of 199 degrees.

The water behind us cascades down the spring.

Waterton International Peace Park, Alberta Canada

We visited the Canadian side of Glacier. We headed up to see the Prince of Wales hotel and to hike the Blackiston Falls and Red Rock Canyon trails.

This is the Prince of Wales Hotel on lower Waterton Lake.

Red Rock Canyon

Blackiston Falls.

Glacier National Park, St Mary Montana

This is the “Going to the Sun Road”. It’s the only road that runs thru Glacier. We took the Red Bus tour, you get to ride in a restored 1930’s White Motor Company tour bus. They have 4 couch seats and a canvas tops that rolls back.

If you click and enlarge this photo below you can see part of the "Going to the Sun Road"

The photo below is of “Wild Goose Island” in the lower St. Mary's Lake. It is probably one of the most photographed places here. Rumor has it that the mountain in the back is where Paramount got the idea for their logo.

Lake MacDonald

This is Jackson Glacier it is approximately the fifth largest (252 acres) of the remaining 24 glaciers in Glacier National Park. A part of the largest grouping of glaciers in the park, Jackson Glacier rests on the north side of Mount Jackson.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Theodore Roosvelt National Park, North Dakota. If you like wild Buffalo and wild horses, this is the place for you! You wake up in the morning and can’t get out of your trailer because you’re surrounded by Buffalo. What a cool way to start your day!!

Look carefully to the right of mama Buffalo. Baby Buffalo is following close behind!

This is the Little Missouri River. Our campground was down on the left in the trees.

Looking for signs of wildlife around the river.

This is one of the biggest prairie dog towns we’ve seen yet. Football fields full of 'em!
Incredible little critters…..

The kids voted this the best ever playground! In Medora, ND right outside Teddy Roosevelt National Park, it's like a miniature old west town.

Wild horses couldn’t drag us away……………….
We found Mr. T'ed' and he invited us down for a drink!

Harney Peak, SD

We haven’t been able to post anything lately, we’ve been in some real remote areas. We’re in Victor Idaho now, exploring the Grand Teton National Park. Our service ended in South Dakota so we headed out to Theodore Roosvelt NP in North Dakota, Glacier NP in Montana, Yellow Stone NP in Wyoming and now Idaho. We have a whole bunch of blog to catch up on. We have internet access for a short time here, so we are going to try and get caught up as much as we can. We’re starting with the last thing we did in South Dakota, hiking to Harney Peak! Harney Peak is an old fire watch tower and the only way there is to hike or ride on horse back. We hiked it!! Dang… We hiked up the south side then down through the Needles.

In the background is Hill City, several mountains behind that was our two campgrounds we managed. Now you know why we could never get a signal on our cell phone.