DH dreading 2019 trip to Yellowstone.
We have been to YNP 5 times, first in 2005 last 2016. My favorite park hands down , after the last visit, not so much for DH. Each visit has been arriving second week in September with a 2 week stay....
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The crowds in 2015, were discouraging. We had planned a trip in July, a year head of time, to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Due to FIL's health issues and death during the anniversary week, the trip was postponed. After his passing, we did the best we could to reschedule at the end of the season. We ended up with one night at Old Faithful Lodge, our favorite place on the entire planet. We had two nights at Lake Hotel, at $414 per. One night in Mammoth,then all the lodging closed so we had three nights at a nice motel in Cody - then it closed.
IOW, check seasons closely. What happens in the park is that the schedule may say, for example, that the cabins at Canyon are open until the 12th of Never, but you are not told that only two cabins are open on the 12th, the rest started closing on the 1st. It's difficult to find staff late in the fall.
We noticed, too, that there were many more buses than in the past, most filled with overseas tourists. That eases just a bit the traffic, but jams up the lodging and food service. We were told that on the 28th of October there were 90 buses in the park. That may have been our last visit.
IOW, check seasons closely. What happens in the park is that the schedule may say, for example, that the cabins at Canyon are open until the 12th of Never, but you are not told that only two cabins are open on the 12th, the rest started closing on the 1st. It's difficult to find staff late in the fall.
We noticed, too, that there were many more buses than in the past, most filled with overseas tourists. That eases just a bit the traffic, but jams up the lodging and food service. We were told that on the 28th of October there were 90 buses in the park. That may have been our last visit.
