West Yellowstone, MT

Yeah! We made it to West Yellowstone. West Yellowstone is the name of the little town outside of the west entrance to Yellowstone national park. We're staying in a nice Rv park here and it is so close to the park entrance. That's about the only thing that's close, though. This park is huge! From the entrance, it's 14 miles to the nearest junction of roads, then it's at least 14 miles to the other junctions. Some areas of the park are 60 miles from our entrance and it's 45mph through the park.

After we set up the campsite, we made a quick trip into the Old Faithful visitor center to buy some tickets for a Ranger Adventure Hike on Tuesday to the Mudpots. On the way back out, we stopped to see some of the thermal features. They look so pretty but stink so bad. Imagine rotten egg smell. When the steam cloud hit's you, it can almost take your breath away. We saw a moose, a bison, and some elk today just driving on the roads. Tomorrow we start exploring.