Sunday September 09, 2007

Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming The recent hiking trip of ours to Yellowstone and Grand Teton was fantastic. The planning was done such that we get to see key parts of Yellowstone and cover Grand Teton as well. We flew to Salt Lake City staying overnight at Idaho Falls in Idaho state and entered from West side (from Montana state). On the day 1, I had planned to visit Hot Mammoth Spring and mainly do small loops to see hot springs. It was fabulous to see those colors. Here are some photographs




On day 2, we went to Canyon to do some strenuous hike. The plan was to do two hikes -- Observation Peak and Mt Washburn. We ended up doing just Mt Washburn (14 miles hike) which starts from Mt Washburn trailhead and goes to Canyon (Upper Falls). It was very dry there but water falls were still great. We spotted Mountain Goat but couldn't spot Wolf or Grizzle Bear



On Day 3, we went to spent our day at Yellowstone Lake and Old Faithful. The lake is a crater and the sun rise was beautiful. We got to see it from West Thumb side of the lake.



Old Faithful Geysers are very famous and we got to see two of them in action. We did a 4 miles loop to see all the Geysers in this area.



On day 4, we went to Grand Teton which I felt was better than Yellowstone in terms of Mountain Landscapes and the hike we did was also very beautiful.



The final day was spent in driving from Grand Teton National Park to Salt Lake City, Utah via Jackson, Wyoming. Yellowstone and Grand Teton should be in must see list just like Alaska. (2007-09-09 11:08:39.0) Permalink