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Yellowstone National or bust
austin20
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plane tickets, rental cars and hotel rooms are booked..
The six of us fly into Bozeman early June then four days at Old Faithful Inn, then Jackson Hole for a few days then all the way over to Mt Rushmore for a few days then we amble our way back to Bozeman
really looking forward to twelve days of the beautiful west.
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Sounds like a great time, enjoy!
You need to add the badlands to that trip
this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cody Museum
Gary, what do you suggest seeing in the badlands
Best wishes for enjoyable trip, hopefully there won’t be many early fires going so the smoke obscures your view as is pretty normal after July 4.
Mule
We just drove what they call the Badlands loop road(SD 240) well worth the detour below is a link about it
https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/story/badlands-loop-state-scenic-byway
thank you, that looks really cool.. Badlands are only about 55 miles from Mt. Rushmore
If your time at Yellowstone is limited I thought the Northeast corner of the park was the most scenic and more wildlife. Which is the opposite corner from old faithful. If I would do it againI would enter the park at the Northeast gate and drive down Eastside first
Cody is a must!
12 days will go really fast.
You should highly consider two days in Cody as one cannot extensively enjoy the Buffalo Bill historical museum unless you spend an entire day in it.
Hence the entry ticket is good for two days, so that touristas that arrive in town in the afternoon from the Park can visit, then visit again the next day before departing to continue their vacation.
Also if you stay overnight, you can take in the Cody night show rodeo, which you might get to see some of my grandkids competing in various events.
In Jackson, at that time of the summer, the rodeo will be on Wednesday and Saturday.
I’d be glad to suggest some generally overlooked routing and spots if you would care to shoot me a pm.
Mule
Message sent and thank you
Watch out a20, with Dave as your tour guide, you never know what might happen...😉
🔃🎢🤣
congrats
its on my bucket list . when my wife retires plan on going
my oldest son has been several times with his GF he enjoys taking photos mostly trains but landscapes also and his GF is a star gazer ? I guess would be a good term so they like going out west no city lights to spoil the night sky . he keeps reminding me we need to go
Fantastic sight. Everybody should visit Yellowstone. One thing that really surprised me, two years ago there, 3/4 of the tourists were from China, or India.
We went a long time ago and even noticed the foreigners
We are all very psyched about this trip, bucket list for most all of us for sure..
DPMule, when you get a chance check your gmail.
If'n you get to Cody, try Irma's for supper.
👍 thanks for the recommendation
Early June is a good choice. Star gazing can be questionable at best by late summer if Oregon and Washington are on fire. Throw in Northern Cali and Idaho and it can get uncomfortable.
Be sure to take a good pair of binoculars. I assume you will have a camera,
The bison like to eat apple slices out of your hand, try feeding one........🤣
Okay. 🤪
June and I went to Yellow Stone a couple of times, it's a pretty place. So was Glacier National Park. The least impressive to me was the Bad Lands. I didn't see anything there that interested me.
Good suggestions. Wildlife is amazing throughout the general area if you time it right. Badlands might be less dramatic, but belongs on the list (IMO). I also enjoyed going to Crazy Horse…esp the side trip on a bus up the mountain. Good museum…and they let you take a few rocks from the pile!
Don’t skip the pullout at Mt. Rushmore…you get the side view of Washington. I had one of my kids mimic his posture while eating an ice cream cone…priceless.
Gonna be a great trip…enjoy!
Wow, that's gonna be a great trip. Hope you folks have a wonderful time.
All sounds like a blast! A lot to cover in just 12 days but just in case you get a chance, I recommend a visit to Deadwood SD. where Wild Bill met his fate. Also Little Big Horn is an eye opener for sure. No matter, I know you will have a good time just hitting the spots mentioned above!
Some folks think that wildlife there is tame because they have lost their fear of humans. Not! Keep your distance as advised. Some years ago on a visit I saw a guy walking out to get a closeup picture of a buffalo. Read in the paper next day that he was killed by it.....
Saw a video on -tube, bison was tossing folks like rag dolls.
Bison Vs Bikers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrJ2uCi-l18
Sometimes you get close to them when you don't mean to. Like when you round a curve and there he is. This old boy was used to it. He didn't even bother to look. Just kept to his side of the road and kept walking. Or maybe he was just tired of killing people that day.
We were in several traffic jams, where 3 or 4 buffalo were walking slowly down the main road, blocking one lane. It is weird to see a nominally wild animal that is not scared of man. Never saw his brother, or even an elk get shot to death, the buffalo of Yellowstone is not worried about curious humans.
I have ruined more than one buffalo jams photo opportunities because the tourists came to a halt because of buffalo walking down the road, as long as no opposing traffic, I just wheel out around the stopped traffic and go through the herd as I would a herd of cattle being moved down the road and majority of the time I have a 30’ stock trailer on when I do it.
Please understand I go through the Park more times in a single summer season than most folks will ever will in their lifetime, sometimes a couple times per month.
I’m not doing it to be mean or vindictive but common sense and understanding goes out the windows when tourist folk see a critter.
I’ve seen people stopped in the middle of the road to watch a coyote, when they could have easily pulled to the berm.
Mule
dpmule, you need to understand that, to a group from China, who have never seen a buffalo, it is very exciting to get stuck 15 feet behind a buffalo, and watch him walk down the road for ten minutes. Believe me the video cams are rolling on those Iphones. It is the highlight of their trip.
Allen, about 10 or 12 years back, we met our eldest son at Canyon village, he was hauling horses to me and I was hauling horses to him, we met at that particular spot because one it is about halfway point for both of us and it has several large parking lots that can accommodate our stock trailers and we could get ice cream for the grandkids and visit a bit.
As we pulled in, we noticed four large tour buses parked in the adjacent lot. My son arrived shortly afterwards and pulled along side me. We chatted for a few minutes before starting to unload. By the time the second horse was on the blacktop we had a several Asians filming and snapping photos, by the time we had four out, the crowd of Asians was 50+.
I could then unload my four or five, one by one and load in his trailer and several individuals literally followed me in the trailer to take pictures and did the same to my son. When we closed the doors there was close to 200 Asians filming, picture taking and jabbering a mile a minute. Within minutes they were loaded on the buses and gone.
We then went in, had our ice cream in peace and then went our respective ways.
If I spy a Bighorn ram on Sylvan pass or Dunraven pass and there is a place I can safely pull over and no one else has seen him, I will stop and glass him, but if there’s a bunch of lookee Lou’s, I keep on truckin.
Mule