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u/GreenSpartan12 · 4 pointsr/yellowstone

Make sure you get up early (like 7 am) and head to Lamar Valley look for a parked cars and you are sure to see Wolves or a Grizzly. This was the best thing I did while I was there

My 2nd piece of advice is do some off road trails. Yellowstone really awards you for putting in the work. We had to hike about 9 miles to see Fairy Falls and it was totally worth it. There's also one we did that goes behind Mammoth hot Springs and gives you way prettier views with no one around. Theres a loop when doing wthe southern canyon trail that allows you to see some really cool thermals. this booke offers a lot of great options
https://www.amazon.com/Rangers-Guide-Yellowstone-Day-Hikes/dp/1560371579

When doing any major attractions I would just try to get there early. Getting to Biscuit Basin around 8 or 9am allowed for easy parking and less crowded boardwalks.

I would defnitley make a point to get down to Tetons. Its really chill and peacful there. We stayed at Signal Moutain campground and the lodge seemed like a nice place. People wroking there were very cool and helpful. Also if you enjoy craft beer Melvin in Jackson is one of the best brewries in the country.



u/dinot2000 · 1 pointr/yellowstone

It seems like you have a good grasp on what to expect on your trip which is great. I would suggest going to the hotel and saving the GTNP visit on your way to the airport.

Lamar Valley is a pretty big area and it's best to visit it early in the morning or at dusk as bears and wolves are most active at that time of day. If you see a bunch of people with spotting scopes and large camera lenses standing by the side of the road they are most likely observing one of those big animals.

If you want some books to help you with your trip, Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park is a very detailed one. For day hikes A Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes book is good and Trail Guides Yellowstone web site is an excellent source for all things Yellowstone.

u/Gumlog · 1 pointr/yellowstone

Which direction are you coming from / going to?

What interests you the most? Geothermal, wildlife, scenery, history/historic buildings/sites?

If you have time, get this book - it has good suggestions for short and longer trips, which will give you a lot of detail to help decide what is your best time investment: https://www.amazon.com/Frommers-Yellowstone-Grand-National-Complete/dp/1628873345/

Personally, I'd say drive the Grand Loop and the must-see's are

  • Yellowstone Falls / Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
  • Midway Basin (Grand Prismatic Spring)
  • Old Faithful / OF Inn
  • Lamar Valley if it fits your routing
  • Grand Tetons from Teton Park Road / stop at Jenny Lake -- again if it fits your routing
u/Siyartemis · 2 pointsr/yellowstone

This is my wheelhouse! I have shelves and shelves of reference books.

My favorite Yellowstone reference (and free!!!) - 2016 Yellowstone Resource Guide. Has chapters on geography, geology, history, flora, fauna, and all the big issues faced by Yellowstone.

Birds -I'm a Sibleys fan. It fits nicely in your pocket and illustrations are exquisite. It takes longer to find birds if you are not used to the format of organized-by-family, but ultimately that's for the best because color is variable.

Insects - Butterflies and Moths of Grand Teton and Yellowstone

Plants - Plants of Yellowstone and Grand Teton

Reptiles - other than wandering garter snakes, you will not see any reptiles in Yellowstone except for the small percentage of the Park that is below 6000' in elevation

u/Geo-Nerd · 1 pointr/yellowstone

I honestly think you're making this harder than it needs to be. A few good books should tell you all you need to know about the region. Buy now and read for the next 9 months, and you will appreciate the place so much more. The 'roadside geology' series is generally quite good. https://www.amazon.com/Roadside-Geology-Yellowstone-Country-William/dp/0878425810/
There are dozens of hiking guides, and more than a few books dedicated to the wildlife and fauna of the region.

Depending on the length of your vacation, you might consider also camping in an adjacent national forest. I camped for 5 days in the Wind River mountains to see the eclipse and saw moose, antelope, badgers, etc., in a gorgeous setting. And even with the eclipse pending, the people density was orders of magnitude lower than any place in Yellowstone. The Beartooth mountains NE of the park are some of the prettiest in the region.

u/aisotton · 1 pointr/yellowstone

I've only been there once, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

If you are planning to do any backpacking, I highly recommend this guide: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0762772549?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

It has a bunch of hikes in it, and some very handy indexes (by length, by strenuousness etc) so that you can find you perfect activity.

Be aware of the fact that you have to book campsites through a pretty complicated process, so you should get on that right now.

If you like looking at plants or tracks and figure out what they are, this field guide is excellent. They also have it in the park book stores:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560375558?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

Don't buy or rent bear spray. You can go to any of the back country offices and the park rangers will give you bear spray for free, under the condition that you bring it back to one of the back country offices in the park (honor system).

u/Lakestang · 5 pointsr/yellowstone

The park is BIG and driving about takes time. I always plan to be gone all day when I head out in the morning. So, bring something for lunch, bring plenty to drink. All the visitor areas have food, but, its so much better to sit by a river or valley and eat lunch vs. waiting in line at a snack bar.

I really like this book. It is small and easy to use when driving. It breaks down the loop road into sections and give you highlights of the section referenced.

I like this book also

Binoculars or a spotting scope are great for Yellowstone as there are many long distance vistas.

u/bmglaw · 1 pointr/yellowstone

Yes, the Old Faithful area geyser basins, along the Firehole River (I had never heard the term Firehole Basin) are easy to access on a self tour. You might also listen to an audio tour.

You could also get out and see the areas you find interesting. I recommend, Fairy Falls, Firehole Lake, Midway Geyser Basin, and Old Faithful Observation Point.

u/bannerad · 3 pointsr/yellowstone

Go horseback riding out of Roosevelt Lodge, perhaps pair it with "The Chuckwagon Dinner".

At Old Faithful Lodge take the walk to the Morning Glory Pool. Once you leave the boardwalk, the lesser known geysers along the way are really just spectacular. My favorite geyser is back there; I think its called "the River geyser" as it butts right up against the Firehole.

Hike up the Slough Creek trail to the Second Meadow. If you fly fish, bring your rod along (although, June...maybe winter run off still?).

There is a book called "A Rangers guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes" by Roger Anderson and Carol Shively Anderson (https://www.amazon.com/Rangers-Guide-Yellowstone-Hikes-Updated/dp/B004MR1VMI) that I've found invaluable.

Have fun. Stay safe.

u/justjokingnotreally · 1 pointr/yellowstone

I can personally make no recommendations, except maybe for It Happened in Yellowstone, which is full of short anecdotes about the park, or possibly Truman Evert's famous account of his time lost in Yellowstone, Thirty-Seven Days of Peril -- also sold under the title of Lost in Yellowstone.

If those don't appeal to you, you might have a look through what the Yellowstone Association book store has to offer for kids. It seems like there are a fair few adventure stories that are specifically aimed at young girls. Here's the Glacier Conservancy store, as well. If none of those titles do the trick, then I suppose it's going to be up to the parks themselves to spark the spirit of adventure in your daughter's heart.

u/SmileAndDonate · 2 pointsr/yellowstone


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u/runningoutofwords · 1 pointr/yellowstone

Which campground are you booked at?

I ask only cause the ones with a lot of trees, like Canyon or Madison are quite shady. While this is exactly what you want for camping, the solar backpacking charger I use needs every ounce of sunlight to fully charge a phone in less than 3 hours.

If you're only in the park for 4 nights, a high capacity charging pack is definitely a good solution.

I might one-up the suggestion, however, and suggest that at least one person in the party get a car jumper pack (not necessarily this model specificaly, there are cheaper ones), and charge it up fully in the last hotel night before you enter the park. These can recharge a phone several times over, OR be used to jump start an SUV should the battery get drained by everyone leaving their phones plugged into the charging ports.

u/UTclimber · 2 pointsr/yellowstone

I second dinot2000's comment. Split your time between the two parks. Also, I'd recommend staying in more campsites (two, or three, maybe four?). Yellowstone and Teton are big BIG parks, and summer traffic is horrendous. Staying in one spot all week will really limit or access to the park.

There are a bunch of day hikes that are manageable for young children, and the visitor services provide many fun activities for children as well (google Junior Rangers and Ranger led hikes, fishing, rafting, horse rides, carriage rides, ect). I'd recommend picking up this book. It breaks down the hikes into quadrants, and then into difficulty. Each hike includes a detailed description. It's the best yellowstone book I've found.

That early in the season some roads still may be closed (Dunraven Pass, Beartooth Highway) But if they're not, I definitely recommend taking a ride up those roads. The view is spectacular.

Feel free to ask any questions. I've lived inside and near the park for years.

u/ccagan · 2 pointsr/yellowstone

I really liked this book for my trip. It cuts the park up into segments along the grand loop and made it VERY easy to plan exactly what we saw and did each day.

http://www.amazon.com/Yellowstone-Expedition-Guide-Modern-National/dp/1933763000/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452694990&sr=8-1&keywords=travel+brains+yellowstone

It's got an audio guide that's nice too.

Plan on LOTS of driving within the park. We did 187 miles in one day (@ 45mph) and only left the park by a few feet when we went up to Gardner MT for lunch. Make your most important things you want to see the FIRST visit of the day. Get there before the tour buses show up and unload.

Make sure you check http://geysertimes.org/ to see when predictable geysers are in their windows to go off. And then find the Geyser Gazers and hang out with them. You'll learn TONS about the park from those veterans.

I'd plan on spending the last bits of daylight in the Hayden or Lamar valleys. Those are just such magical places.

Take your bear spray. Take your bear spray. Take your bear spray.

u/apestate · 12 pointsr/yellowstone

A lot of YNP wildlife has a different attitude about people than you or I would be used to, coming from the midwest. They can sometimes be very apathetic of human presence.

Just take pepper spray into the backcountry with you. It's the best defense. Now you are the skunk.

In 2009 I went into YNP alone totalling many weeks of time spent in backcountry. I was very paranoid and afraid, but reading a few books on the subject helped immensely: Bear Attacks, Causes, and Avoidance for example.

The two times I saw Grizzly in the backcountry, my knowledge gained from conversations and books kept me from getting more upset. I learned how to hone a knife and had a really sharp knife handy, plus the bear spray can, and both times I monitored the wind and tried to get it to smell me, both so it would go away sooner and so that the spray would be on it and not on me. Each bear just moved off with no interest in me or my camp.

You'll read things that seem impossibly strict or contradictory if you try to follow the park's guidance alone. Their guidance on food smells is impossibly strict. They expect you to change into different clothes after you're done eating and hang all that stuff up with your food bag.

Besides reading a few books about being in bear territory, one of the best things for me was to watch YouTube videos of bear encounters, and there are some documentaries with bear encounters in them. Bears and raccoon have a similar manner / personality or what have you.

Basically, you don't want to surprise a bear. Two people have a big advantage because your conversation, mass and movement will generally ward off wildlife. When cresting a little hill or coming into a thicket, just announce yourself. Yell "hey, bear."

Research has so far shown the pepper spray to be more effective than gun shots at warding off a bear. You can purchase the bear spray at many of the stores and gas stations in YNP, or in any of the surrounding towns. A nice knife or hatchet in your fist will make you feel a little better, too.

Bears in YNP aren't bad at all. They're very wild, and that's what we want when we're outdoors in its habitat. The bears that are bad to be around are ones that are quite familiar with human food. Those are dangerous bears. In the Sierra Nevada and along the King's Range coast in California, black bears are real bastards. In YNP and the surrounding ecosystem, excluding bears from food and garbage has been very effective. In the backcountry, your knowledge of bear behavior and motivations is your best resource.

u/waden · 2 pointsr/yellowstone

Love Shoshone Geyser Basin. I've been there 3 times! Finally got to see Minute Man go off on the 3rd trip!

Ever read Death in Yellowstone? You'll never look at Shoshone Geyser Basin the same...

u/peckrob · 3 pointsr/yellowstone

> What bothers me the most about this is that the adults seem to either not care, or are clueless to the danger that this group, of mostly kids, is in.

I used to work as a Ranger in the park. This is, unfortunately, not uncommon. For some reason, otherwise normal, reasonably intelligent people just leave their brains behind when they go on vacation. I don't know if they think Yellowstone is like Disneyland, or a zoo, or what, but they just lose all sense of fear when it comes to the dangers around them.

One day, I was gassing up a Suburban in a clearly marked Rangers-only restricted area. A moose walked by. Okay, cool. This is awesome. This is why I'm here. I love nature. Nature is awesome.

But then...

Not ten yards behind the moose comes this group of 20-30 people, just completely ignoring all the signs telling them not to enter this area and completely ignoring any common sense that says you should not be anywhere near that close to a wild animal that could turn and charge them at any moment.

When I stopped them and asked them what they were doing, one guy finally said "We're trying to take pictures of the moose."

Sigh. Sigh. Fucking sigh. Now I have to be the asshole and tell them that they shouldn't be anywhere near that close to a dangerous wild animal in the first place, and second they should not have ignored the multiple signs telling them that they shouldn't be in a restricted area. And, that they need to go back and watch the moose from a safe distance.

Now, repeat this similar encounter nearly every single day. Sure, the specifics are different, but the same thing happens all the time, and I really don't get it. In spite of all the warnings people are given not to approach the wildlife, they still keep doing it.

As a side note, if you want some morbid but fascinating reading, check out Lee Whittlesey's book Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park. It's a fascinating book on all the various grisly ways people have managed to off themselves in the park, often through their own idiocy, and often ignoring many warnings in the process.

u/Ankeneering · 1 pointr/yellowstone

If you are in a campground as big as that one, there is zero chance of bear attack. But, if you want to suitably freak yourself out about the ways Yellowstone is trying to kill you besides bears read this book while there, (in every gift shop) http://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National/dp/1570980217

u/corran__horn · -3 pointsr/yellowstone

You either have to be in the backcountry or illegally walking off the boardwalk. Otherwise there are fences around almost every feature close to a trail.

Lee Whittlesey wrote a book on the history of people dying.

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2?ie=UTF8&qid=&ref_=tmm_kin_swatch_0&sr=

It is sad, as each death makes it harder for the park service to let people near pools.

u/VoicesOfEcho · 6 pointsr/yellowstone

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1570980217/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ZPwTAb8JCFRZX