Spent three nights camping at Yellowstone National Park. Although it isn't the recommended procedure, I just showed up without reservations and was able to find nice campsites at two locations within the park. Would have stayed longer but when I found myself sunburned and chigger-bit on the fourth day I found that I had developed an unnatural craving for hot showers and cool bed linens. I hope to return someday and will pick a cooler time of the year (like when the chiggers have frozen their teeney tiny little butts off).
This place is truly awsesome! I hadn't originally planned to come here (destination was to have been Glacier NP, but it was still a day's drive away when I decided to turn south from Bozeman and do Yellowstone instead) as I thought it would be crowded and filled with gawking tourists. Turns out that Yellowstone is so large and has so many things to see that people get spread out nicely except for "hot spots" like Old Faithful, where you feel like it's the fourth of July and you are waiting for the fireworks to commence.
Yellowstone was the first designated National Park and today is definitely among the finest if not THE finest of the parks. This is where the majority of the world's geysers and hot springs are found and home to the grizzly bear and wolf and free-ranging herds of bison and elk. Also notable for it's outstanding mountain wilderness, world-class trout streams, clean air and clean water. At the risk of repeating myself, it is AWESOME! The photos here are just a sampler and only hint at what it is like here. Not to sound too preachy, but if you like the outdoors you owe yourself a pilgrimage here at least once in your lifetime. And do it while you are still healthy enough to hike some of the trails!
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