Wacky Wanderers

exploring on the road as a family

Yellowstone Day 4: Hayden Valley & Mud Volcano Area

The girls both finally slept through the night!  The two previous nights our 4 year old was up for 3 hours in night for reasons unknown to us which, after hours of trying other options, again resulted in me cramming myself into her bed to sleep for the remainder of the night.  So, after her first good nights sleep in a while we chose to wake her up before dawn to attempt a peak at some wolves in Lamer Valley.  Not the best parenting choice but we were hopeful she would recover from lack of sleep.  

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Yellowstone Day 2: Norris Geyser Basin

The girls spent all morning happily working on their Jr Ranger books and Justin used the Internet while we still had some.  In Yellowstone our internet only worked in the early morning and late evening when less people were online, so we had to make the best of it when we had it.  Then we were off to the Norris Geyser Basin!

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Yellowstone Day 1: Mammoth Hot Springs

Our plan worked!!!  We woke the girls up before the sun came up, snuggled them into little blanket cocoons in Azul and headed into Yellowstone to try our luck snagging a Mammoth Hot Springs Campground site.  When we pulled into the campground there were already 3 or 4 rigs in front of us.  Not too bad.  Justin checked and the ranger at the desk said that at least a dozen people were checking out that day so we would definitely get a site.  Hurray!!  Bad news was it was 4 hours until check out so technically we could potentially be waiting for that long.  We were hopeful and excited to be promised a site!

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Canyon Campground outside North entrance of Yellowstone

We had a packed day what with the quick tour through Yellowstone and all so we were relieved to find a great camping spot about 25 minutes north of the north entrance to Yellowstone N.P.  The campground was lovely and super cheap ($7 per night)!  It was nestled at the foot of a picturesque butte mazed between large craggy lichen covered rocks.  The girls were thrilled to have such a great climbing gym in our own backyard!  

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BLM camping and passing through Yellowstone N.P.

Our original Yellowstone plan was to camp on BLM land just outside West Yellowstone to let the weekend pass by, and then to head into Yellowstone on a Sunday to try our luck to snag a first-come first-serve campsite. However, when we woke up Friday morning to a rainy day, we thought “maybe the rain will keep the crowds away– let’s go!” It didn’t work out as well as we had hoped…

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