En Route

 As I got closer and closer to Yellowstone I was getting more and more excited.  I had a cabin reserved for the first night so I was not worried about getting there at any particular time-whenever I showed up, the room would be there, no rain fly battle required.  So I headed to Gardiner and the North Entrance mostly because it was the path of least resistance.  On the way in, I stopped at a couple of places.  This natural phenomena (Devil's Slide) was kind of cool...what used to be horizontal is now perpendicular.  Very cool and easy to see on the way into the Park if only you are paying attention.

I stopped at this trailhead to see what I could see.  Like many others that I vistied, I was the only car there.  I did not actually do even a little hike because when I turned the other direction, I could see a storm approaching.  Yellowstone Park is in a very mountainous region and storms can pop us seemingly out of nowhere.  This one looked pretty fierce and I had no interest in getting caught out in it.  So I took some pictures and continued on my way.

If you drive from Minnesota to Yellowstone, entering at the North Entrance in Gardiner, you follow the Yellowstone River for a long, long way well before you get anywhere near the Park itself.  Here I stopped to take a picture of a group who was rafting down the river.  Me, I would not waste my time in Yellowstone rafting as I think there are a million places you can do that but there is only one Yellowstone, but to each their own.