Other Sights

This web page contains some pictures from various points of interest around the park that didn't seem to fit in with any of the previous locations I have described.

Buffalo are a common sight in Yellowstone. You are likely to encounter them alongside, or directly on the roadway. You can get very close to them. Park literature warns that a few people get gored every year, but that doesn't daunt the most avid photographers. I got these pictures during a "Buffalo jam" - when all the traffic stops because these animals are blocking the roadway.

The road between the Upper Geyser Basin and West Thumb crosses the Continental Divide twice. So of course, we stopped at each sign and took a commerative photo.

Lewis Falls is off the side of the road between West Thumb and the South entrance to the park. You can easily see these falls from the bridge. There didn't seem to be any trail for a closer view.

Moose Falls is also on the road between West Thumb and the South entrance, it is close to the park boundary. There is a very short hike to get to these falls. They are on the east side of the road, look for the sign.

We stayed in cabins at Lake Yellowstone. They are primitive, but we were so tired from our vigorous sightseeing that we quickly fell asleep each night. One night an earthquake shook us up pretty good. It turned out to be only a 2.0 on the Richter scale, but since the epicenter of the quake was just offshore in Lake Yellowstone, we were close enough to get a nice shaking. These pictures show the evening views looking over the Lake. One night there were a bunch of buffalo grazing on the shore of the lake.

The Natural Bridge is located at the end of a fire road that is about 2 flat miles long. It is right near Lake Village. Just follow the signs. At one time, there was a proposal to build a road over the Natural Bridge! In the distant past, water flowed over the top of the Bridge in a waterfall. You can still see a "V" shape carved at the top of the Bridge where the waterfall used to flow. But the flowing water eroded the bottom of the river, and a soft piece of rock about halfway down the water fall collapsed, allowing the flowing water to go under the rock. This flowing water eroded the rock, carving out the bridge.

I can't believe a tree-hugger like me took a photo of a gas-station, but I was delighted to see a Sinclair gas in business in West Yellowstone. When I was a child, I always loved Sinclair gas because it had a dinosaur on the sign, and I think they gave away small plastic dinos with a fillup. Unfortunately, my dad had a Gulf credit card, so we rarely patronized Sinclair, but I always wished we had! Gee, gas was a whole lot cheaper back in the late summer of 2004.