If you’re planning a Yellowstone family vacation, you’re in for a real treat! Yellowstone is magical for visitors of all ages, but kids have a knack for noticing the small wonders that we adults sometimes miss. Here’s your complete guide to planning and enjoying the...
The best laid plans…don’t always turn out the way you expect. In some cases, they turn out even better. George and I (Jenny) had planned an epic backpack from the south boundary of Yellowstone 145-ish miles home together, while little G was visiting...
It is super cold and damp when we arrive at Yellowstone’s Bridge Bay campground on the shores of Yellowstone Lake. Rain and gropple (sleet/snow/hail mix) storms shift through periodically, so the first thing we do after getting the camper set up at our site...
The iPad has taken complete control of my fun-loving ‘nature kid’. Sitting in a pile on the floor, swaddled in a red and green plaid blanket beside the space heater, my 9-year old has been seized by the device, and it isn’t letting go. Surely, all...
August for us means a (semi) annual trip backpacking the Beartooths, a high elevation mountainous plateau in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness that sits between Cooke City and Red Lodge, Montana. A glacially carved landscape decorated with 2 billion year-old granite...
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...
