Road Trip Home: Day 6
This morning, we got up really early and headed out off to the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Since we didn’t have reservations, we hit up first-come first-serve camping and were able to snag a site at Indian Creek campground within the park.
We spent this day exploring the whole western side of the park, which is where most of the geysers and hydrothermal features are located. FYI, Yellowstone is an active supervolcano and these features are present reminders of that volcanic activity.
At Norris Geyser Basin, we were first introduced to the geysers and vents. It was pretty cool to see geysers going off and the brilliant colors in the pools.
Grand Prismatic Spring was stunning:
We also saw some awesome waterfalls and river streams this day.
As we were walking around the surrounding area, we were lucky enough to catch Old Faithful geyser as it was spouting off. It was quite big and shot water quite a ways up in the air.
Among the wildlife we saw were mule deer (they came up right along the roadside) and crows chilling by the geysers.
Due to part accessibility and part laziness, we didn’t shower. Roughin’ it as one might say. A wet wipe “shower” would have to do.
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