Yellowstone Park First Day

I can’t began to count the number of times I have been to Yellowstone Park beginning with a trip out here from Arkansas in 1972 with my family.  I’ve been into the Park on snow machines in winter and made countless summer and fall trips over here.  Today was a great trip through the Park.

All four of us and all three furkids spent a restless, hot, sweaty night—it never cooled off all night long, a rarity for Montana.  But we all got up with great attitudes looking forward to showing Gina and Rollie Yellowstone Park for their first time.  We took all three pooches with us today and it worked well—better than leaving them alone for hours and hours.

We stopped briefly in Mammoth before heading out across the Lamar Valley to Cooke City.  Our lunch stop was along this beautiful little creek. Leaving Cooke City we headed back to Roosevelt Junction and over to Canyon Village and the Upper and Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.  Gina and Rollie were suitably impressed! Upper Falls

Lower Falls After viewing the Falls we headed to the employee campground to find Mom and Chuck.  They had fixed hamburgers on the grill for us and fruit salad, it was all very good hitting the spot.  We visited for a short while then they drove with us over to the gift shop so we could take advantage of their employee discount.  With hugs all around we made our way back to our little spot by the Yellowstone River. 

A perfect day in Montana and Wyoming.