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I hear the buffalo are friendly and like to have their ears scratched.

I’d sure like to watch that kinda entertainment!

The only reason I'm going.....in June.........

My young bride has never been to Yellowstone or Tetons

I can stay lost in Utah w/o any of the touron traffic all summer

So I have a week booked in Teton & Yellowstone

Then back to Utah....I have this country in my back yard

I feel ya

But........have a early trip outta town 3-21-22

Wife's gone.......

LX Cruiser loaded up

Tourons are not in force yet

I know places..............

This, after school is back in session & parents of school age children are staying home. Late Sept. you'll pretty much own the place. Or if it's like my trip in early Oct. Just a bit late & some things closed. But not ever a traffic or parking problem.

I preach this for about any travel. If you don't have school age children that require you to vacation from 6/1 to 9/1, do it another time.

Late September

Damm bull elk will keep you awake bugling

Elk - Same thing right here at my place cept I don’t need a tag.

One of the best vacations I ever took. I drove it too and stayed at three different locations around the park over the course of a week. We stopped at Mt Rushmore and the Little Bighorn along the way.

Im not reading anyone else’s posts

BUT you better start campsite reservations asap. Every possible campsite can fill up months out.

Sounds like ya got it all figured out already.

Cody Wy is worth the side trip. The northern part of the park is our favorite. Help yourself to all the Utards you can bring back to Texas.

Ponds Lodge and Lakeside Lodge in Island Park are good places to eat. The Happy Hour on Hebgen Lake is fun place

Good info VG.
We bought our Sr. Discount Natl. Park pass 2 yrs ago. I can't remember the cost but I was 62 and eligible in '22.
We are going to travel the Beartooth Hwy this year and enter YNP from the north like you mentioned. Breathtaking views await our trip this year.

To reduce overcrowding many of the National Parks now require you to schedule a time to enter the park. I'm pretty sure Yellowstone does this. There are ways around it though. We ran into that a couple of years ago at RMNP in Colorado. If you enter before 6AM you can just drive in with no appointment. Also, if you enter after I think 4PM you don't need one.

That worked great for us. We got into a campground near Estes Park and set up just in time to get into the park after 4PM. We stayed till dark and the place was dead that late in the day. And that is when most of the wildlife is out in the open. It doesn't get dark till near 10PM local time during the summer at that latitude.

Since there is a 2 hour time difference between GA and CO getting into the park before 6 AM was easy for us as well. My body was still on GA time, so it felt like 8AM to me. We were one of the 1st vehicles to the parking lot at Bear Lake. Most of the visitors there park elsewhere and arrive in a shuttle.

It has been crowded every time we have been there except the time we went in winter. Try not to be pulling your trailer while you are actually driving through the Park, it will make parking much more difficult. Try to get to the entrance early in the morning. You really don’t need to see everything. When you have seen one geyser, hot spring, paint pot, fumarole, etc. you have seen them all. Enjoy the trip. Everyone should visit Yellowstone, and the drive there and back is half the fun.

The best Yellowstone trips don’t include the park at all, unless you want to have ten thousand tourons sharing the wilderness experience with you.
How much weather are you interested in?

Sleep in the bed of the pickup with your Bersa, ya wuss.

LOL !

I’ve slept in worse, been armed with worse. I’m still here.