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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Like you, Yellowstone is my favorite Park. Fortunately for me, it's my husband's, too.
We were in Yellowstone for our third trip in the second week of September 2011. Weather was beautiful, though a bit warmer than usual. Elk everywhere. Got a sleety rain one day crossing Dunraven. Pretty much like somebody threw a clear slushy on the windshield. Still very crowded, but nothing like our first trip which was, during my husbands teaching days, end of July/beginning of August.
Our second trip was February 2009 and I have to agree with those who say there is nothing like Yellowstone in winter. It's on my bucket list to do again now that we've both retired and can be gone longer. We walked the Old Faithful geyser basin and saw no one else. I rode a snow mobile for the first time and loved it. Crossing the continental divide on the bottom of the lower half of the figure 8 road, we shut off our 5 machines. The silence was amazing. No running water, no birds, only the occasional gentle sigh of wind in the evergreens. It looked like riding through a Christmas card.
Hope you get to go and enjoy your birthday trip.
We'll be there the first week of June 2019 to take our grandson on a trip he's been asking for since he was 3. So looking forward to seeing the baby animals and a different season.
We were in Yellowstone for our third trip in the second week of September 2011. Weather was beautiful, though a bit warmer than usual. Elk everywhere. Got a sleety rain one day crossing Dunraven. Pretty much like somebody threw a clear slushy on the windshield. Still very crowded, but nothing like our first trip which was, during my husbands teaching days, end of July/beginning of August.
Our second trip was February 2009 and I have to agree with those who say there is nothing like Yellowstone in winter. It's on my bucket list to do again now that we've both retired and can be gone longer. We walked the Old Faithful geyser basin and saw no one else. I rode a snow mobile for the first time and loved it. Crossing the continental divide on the bottom of the lower half of the figure 8 road, we shut off our 5 machines. The silence was amazing. No running water, no birds, only the occasional gentle sigh of wind in the evergreens. It looked like riding through a Christmas card.
Hope you get to go and enjoy your birthday trip.
We'll be there the first week of June 2019 to take our grandson on a trip he's been asking for since he was 3. So looking forward to seeing the baby animals and a different season.
