West Yellowstone, Montana & Island Park, Idaho

In addition to spending time in Yellowstone National Park, we also had days we spent exploring outside of the park - in West Yellowstone & Island Park, Idaho. 

We  stayed at an RV park in Island Park, Idaho, about 20 miles from the West Yellowstone entrance.  A very pretty park full of trees, which we loved, but it made it a bit tricky to find the right spot to park our coach where we could open our slides without hitting a tree - LOL. We also had the best neighbors, who were seasonal residents that gave us lots of tips for things to do in the area.

Yellowstone National Park Day 4

Our final day in Yellowstone was another good day, 
especially for seeing more wildlife that we hadn’t seen in the park before.

Yellowstone National Park - Day3

Today we got to see Old Faithful in the lower loop of the park.  We actually saw it erupt twice and the second time, later in the day, we saw a rainbow when it erupted – I think the picture captured it pretty well!


Yellowstone National Park - Day 2

Today we spent the majority of our time in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone – What a beautiful place!  A lot of hiking on the canyon trails to enjoy the views of the canyon & waterfalls. 

Yellowstone National Park - Day1

Over 2 million acre National Park – there is so much to see – it’s hard not to stop at every place you come to along your drive - On our first drive into the park we stopped at:

Gibbons Falls

Yellowstone National Park - Bison/Buffalo jackpot!

We found lots of Bison on our very first day at Yellowstone! We were told to take a drive thru Lamar valley in the early evening to get the best chances of seeing them. We hit the jackpot!

We first saw one standing right beside the road, 
just  like he was just waiting there for pictures to be taken. I expected that was the closest one we’d would see.