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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derouen6 wrote:
Thank you for the replies. It appears that October will probably not be noticeable less crowded. I’ve got several months before I have to make CG reservation plenty of time to mull it over.
Here are the visitor numbers:
https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/visitationstats.htm
October accounts for about 5% of visits, on average. September accounts for about 15% of visits (but probably most of those are very early September, and I would imagine it drops every week).
If you're talking about 2019, you have more than several months to make reservations. I checked an RV park in West Yellowstone and they have dozens of sites available for this coming October, never mind 2019. (We stayed in the park on our mid-September visit just to avoid dealing with the cars funneling into the park in the morning, but in October, I think even I would be willing to commute from West Yellowstone.)
