Yellowstone National Park

Old Faithful

The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

What a full day. Today we saw Forests, Mountains, Geysers, Lakes, Water falls, Canyons, Pastures, Elk, Buffalo (Lots of Buffalo), Deer, and all in one day. We even crossed over the Continental Divide. This is the point where the snow melt runs into 2 rivers, one running all the way to the Pacific Ocean and the other running all the way to the Mississippi and eventually into the Gulf. This peak is over 8300 feet. I put over 120 miles on the Toad. And we only saw a small portion of the park. We are going to go back to see more in the next couple of days. Everyone knows about Old Faithful. Well, it was neat but the real treat of Yellowstone is what is knows as The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. This is a deep gorge dug out by the Yellowstone River. The colors of the walls are amazing and the waterfall is taller than Niagara Falls. We liked it so much that the next time we go into the park, we are going to go directly to The Grand Canyon and spend more time. We have to drive the upper loop also, which has the highest concentration of wild life. While driving through the park today we were held up a couple of times by buffalo just standing in the middle of the road like they own the place…Oh yeah, they do own the place. Also there was a big bull Elk standing in the middle of the road looking at the line of cars he was holding up as if he was saying, “What!”. Such a cool place!