{"id":1628,"date":"2017-07-02T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2017-07-02T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T22:23:04","slug":"yellowstone-national-park-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2017\/07\/02\/yellowstone-national-park-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone National Park, Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got off to a late start this morning and there was quite a line to get thru the entrance station.\u00a0\u00a0 It was backed up all the way into the town.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are going to hit Yellowstone in the summer, it appears you want to get there before 9 am.\u00a0 The ride from the entrance station follows the Madison river for most of the 16 or so miles to Madison. \u00a0 There are lots of fly fishermen in their waders out there, but I haven’t seen any two that would be able to see the other.\u00a0\u00a0 Idyllic for a fisherman!\u00a0\u00a0 I wonder if my brother does any fly fishing?\u00a0\u00a0 This place looks like a fisherman’s paradise.<\/p>\n

About 14 miles into the park you come to a tee intersection,\u00a0 to the right is Ole Faithful and to the left was yet unexplored.\u00a0 We were heading to Mammoth Hot Springs and beyond for the afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 The road to Norris was blocked off, so we passed that and turned for the hot springs.\u00a0\u00a0 About halfway there there was a flagman and a very long wait for the cars heading southbound. \u00a0 Lots of road construction going on this route. \u00a0 Once the southbound cars were past us, we got to go and probably drove 10 miles of dirt and broken-up one-lane road,\u00a0 passing lots of earth movers of all description along the way.\u00a0 Quite a jostling ride from Kathy’s POV.<\/p>\n

We finally got into Mammoth and found a parking spot at a huge green lawn area with a few picnic tables under some trees.\u00a0\u00a0 The pups were in heaven and it was pretty nice for us too.\u00a0\u00a0 Across the busy road was a restaurant with ice cream.\u00a0\u00a0 We munched on our picnic lunch and then Kathy made her way over to the ice cream shop and since\u00a0 it was lunch time, there was about 50 people in line to get a table.\u00a0\u00a0 After a bit she noticed that ice cream wasn’t on the menu and saw a sign in the corner of the room listing it. \u00a0No line at all!\u00a0\u00a0 It was heaven to have ice cream under those trees.<\/p>\n

Once we were ready to go, we headed out toward Tower-Roosevelt. \u00a0 I had no idea what that was, but it looked like we could loop back toward our campground, so we were off!\u00a0\u00a0 Quite a scenic road and not a bit of construction to spoil it.\u00a0\u00a0 I have never been to a place with so many fast moving rivers.\u00a0 Yellowstone should be called waterworld or something like that. \u00a0 Maybe I have just lived in the desert of San Diego so long, running fresh water seems odd to me.\u00a0\u00a0 It seems like all roads have a river or a huge creek running beside them.\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lots of waterfalls and rapids.\u00a0 But we never saw a raft or kayak on any of them.\u00a0\u00a0 Even the huge Yellowstone Lake,\u00a0 we only saw one boat.\u00a0\u00a0 If this was San Diego,\u00a0 there would be thousands of boats on that lake.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This was the waterfall near Roosevelt,\u00a0 It turned out to be a Lodge.\u00a0\u00a0 After that we started climbing and when we were above the treeline the views were spectacular.\u00a0 You could see forever.. or maybe even further.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Once thru the pass, we stopped at Canyon Village. \u00a0There are lots of these islands of civilization in the park: \u00a0stores, shops, visitor centers, gas, and even medical clinics.<\/p>\n

After that we headed back toward West Yellowstone.\u00a0 It was a long day.<\/p>\n

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We got off to a late start this morning and there was quite a line to get thru the entrance station.\u00a0\u00a0 It was backed up all the way into the town.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are going to hit Yellowstone in the summer, it appears you want to get there before 9 am.\u00a0 The ride from the … <\/p>\n

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