Yellowstone trip

We are planning a similar trip. I recommend you do a search on this forum as a start since this is an often asked question and there is a lot of information out there. Also check out the National Park campground info since it gives you some great ideas.

Allow plenty of time for traveling within the park. It's ginormous in there.

We stayed outside the park and kinda regretted it since it would take us about an hour to get to the park from Yellowstone's Edge campground.

make a reservation at fishing bridge campground for part of your stay. the only place with FHU. then before and after you can bounce around in the other campgrounds.
bumpy

Reservations for summer of 2015 are going on right now. We already have reservations for Fishing Bridge RV Campground in July. When we tried to make another reservation at one of the dry camping campgrounds there were no sites left for rigs of our size. In other words, make your reservations now for campgrounds in the park.

We just came back after a stay at West Yellowstone. I'd recommend later Sept and early October, weather was cold at first but got great. Crowds not too bad. If we did it again, I'd stay at West Yellowstone again then go into the park for part of the time to save some travel. Also, late season time will give you good discounts in most of the stores for shopping as they are getting ready to close for the winter. Some roads close around that time too so watch for those as it will severely restrict or add extra miles to get where you want to go. Take lots of pictures as there is so much to see. I'd also highly suggest ending up driving out the east gate and spend time in Cody, Wy! Awesome drive. We even stopped at Shoshone Lodge and rode horses for a couple of hours in the same mountain ridges you see along the beautiful highway.

The park is big consider splitting your stay between multiple places. It will help to reduce the driving and make it a lot easier to see more of the park.

Yellowstone is a huge park and I’d suggest staying in the park rather than outside to reduce your travel time. Last trip there I put 400 miles on just driving around in the park. At your TT size you should have a lot of options for campgrounds; a few will be off limits. You will be off the grid if you camp there unless you use the RV storage lot – read Fishing Bridge. Both Yellowstone and the Tetons have only one campground with HU’s. Most cg’s allow generator usage, again a few of the more pristine don’t allow them.

Don’t be concerned about dry camping, you’ll adapt fast. It’s just a matter of being more frugal with your resources. I’ve camped for over 50 years and could count the times I’ve used HU’s on my fingers, or at least my fingers and toes. Considering the size of Yellowstone you could pick an area you want to see and select a cg there. Then to see another area just move to a cg in that area.

If you’re in Yellowstone you’ll likely want to check out Grand Teton, too, it’s directly south and spectacular. If you do that you’ll have to decide how to split your time up. I’d suggest a little more time in Yellowstone only because there’s more variety of scenery. Two weeks is a decent amount of time for the trip but I suspect you’ll find it not enough for everything you want to see and you’ll come back again. Have a great trip. A last thought, stock up on food and such before you get there, nothing is cheap in the parks.

Of course you searched this Forum for Yellowstone...

You guys are awesome, Thank you for the tips and typically we do our trips in the fall to help avoid crowds. Have the Tetons and old faithfull on the list and will go to yellowstone lake as well. Is there any other areas that are a must to see? I really appreciate the help. I love this forum and everyone has always been more then helpful, especially for the newbies.

If you are going thru Cody stop at the museum.If you have time go out the north gate and go thru Cooke City and than on to Red Lodge MT.