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Pelican Nature Trail
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Yellowstone National Park Day 2 post had a comment that the Pelican Nature Trail will be written in a separate post. A week or so later, I finally have the time to write the post. I hope you enjoy. The nature trail is only a couple miles past the…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 11: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 This is for everyone that loves the selfies and nonprofessional looking photos from my phone 🙂 As John said in the Day 11 original, post we went through Hayden Valley first. This is a large grazing area for animals. Though no baby buffaloes. I thought you would like a…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 11
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 (Note: We think we fixed the vertical movie issue, but they are a bit larger. It might be a bit slow loading, but let us know if the vertical movies play sideways.) (Note: If you click the image, you will be able to zoom in on the photographs. Some…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 10: One out of Six Ain’t Bad?
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Task #1 – Lewis Channel Hike (Failure) The Lewis Channel Hike runs beside Lewis Lake. The first 2 1/2 miles was open for hiking but had a warning for snow covered trail. We weren’t worried about the snow and have hiked on snow before. The second half of the…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 10: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Day 10: Part 1 – One out of Six Ain’t Bad?, will be posted tomorrow. (Note: The bird was never very close to shore, so all of these images are clickable links. If you click on the image, you can zoom in for as much detail as there is.…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 9: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Grant Visitor Center recently opened. The building has Forest Rangers who assist with answering questions and a museum that focuses on the impact of forest fires on the park. The chart below displays the fires by year and the impact. A key to helping get control of the fires…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 9
Yellowstone National Park, May 2025 Since we didn’t get back to the trailer until 10 pm last night and wrote the blogs for Day 8 until after midnight, we didn’t get up until late. We planned on having a more relaxing day. Today we focused on going to West Thumb to walk the boardwalk around…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 8
Yellowstone National Park, May 2025 Today we tried to get out a little earlier, but we were unsuccessful. This was mostly because I couldn’t find my keys, and it took a while to locate them. Once we did get out, our first stop was to hike Storm Point. My main purpose was to see the…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 8: Part 2
West Thumb Geyser Basin, WY, May 2025 Kate wanted to take a break after the Storm Point hike to wait for most people to leave the park. After coming back, we received a unannounced visitor … (dun dun DUN!) Kate answered the door, and it was park maintenance. It turns out that the water spigot…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 7
Yellowstone National Park, May 2025 Todays plan was to get things done around the trailer and visit the Fishing Bridge Visitor Center. The fishing Bridge Visitor Center was built in 1930 / 1931. The structure helped define what was called the National Park Service Rustic style. This building design was then used in other national…