Road Trip Home: Day 7
Without a lantern, we did a lot of early nights and early mornings this trip, which was pretty refreshing and allowed us to take advantage of sunlight.
This morning, we explored mostly the eastern side of Yellowstone, hitting up Mammoth Hot Springs, which were awesome:
We also saw the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, which was smaller than the one in Arizona, but was beautiful nonetheless with it’s upper and lower waterfalls and winding river in between painted rocks.
There were tons of bison everywhere this day! We saw four or five packs of them in large grasslands and some even mosied on close to the road.
We got some great looks at Yellowstone Lake and Yellowstone River as well. This national park really has it all, but it was very touristy at all the sites, with tour buses and people everywhere. A little too much for me.
In the late afternoon, we drove south right into Grand Teton National Park, often thought of as Yellowstone’s little brother. It’s quite awesome in it’s own right though. No matter where you are in the park, Mt Teton and the mountain range serve as a backdrop.
We did the 44-mile scenic loop and turned off to see the lakes, Snake River, and Oxbow Bend.
We drove up Signal Mountain Summit to get an epic view of the valley and mountains.
At night, we crashed at Gros Ventre campground.
Thought we only spent half a day here and didn’t do much hiking,I was sad to say the Grand Teton was our last national park of the trip, but exploring four of them inspires me to go see more in the near future.
It got me feeling like the kid from the movie Up. Wilderness is out there, explore it!
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