What is there to do on a gloomy Saturday in April? Go into the park of course! While we were hoping for bears (to no avail), and although much of the Park still looks like winter, we had a great day exploring ephemeral ponds, watching coyotes rascalize, and visiting...
When park rangers tell you to secure your food on a snowmobile, they mean it! Ravens are wicked smart, and are very creative when trying to break into your pack to steal some food. Watch this short video of ravens breaking into a backpack left on a snowmobile in...
We rarely let a winter go by without going down to Old Faithful. Getting there is a bit of a trek; the roads are closed to wheeled vehicles from November to April and the landscape is buried in snow. Instead of hopping in the car and driving an hour and a half like we...
Magnificent, surreal and ethereal, Grand Prismatic Spring is not only one of the most iconic thermal features in Yellowstone National Park, but also a stained-glass-window into the forces at work beneath the park’s surface. At 370 feet across and 120 feet deep,...
While there may be fewer showy aspens and cottonwoods than other rocky mountain places, the fall color in Yellowstone is still impressive, especially if you fix your gaze below the forest canopy. The range of reds and oranges and yellows to be found in shrubs like...
There’s been a change in the air lately. The chokecherries are ripe, elk are bugling, and the last blooms of fireweed cling to the top of the stalks. Summer, it seems, is at an end. The air is cooler yes, and the light slants differently, but it’s more...
