My trip to Yellowstone National Park

[conductorjoe]

I just got back today from my family's trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. We had tons of fun!

The park itself is awesome. It spans over 2.2 million acres, bigger than the size of Rhode Island and Delaware put together. It's HUGE, and it takes a few hours to drive from one end of the park to the other. Everything is kept in pristine, untouched condition. There are only a few places in the park where there are buildings, along with food, restrooms, and such.

First off, the "natural" element of the park is just amazing. It's like nothing I had ever seen before. Everything is entirely natural-all the animals and plants are in their natural habitat, with no human interruption(besides crazy photographers like myself). It's just outstanding and awe-inspiring to see these animals and the land itself so natural, untouched, and beautiful.

It has probably the most interesting collection of strange and wonderful natural wonders in the world. Lots of geothermal and seismic activity make for really cool features, like hot springs, geysers, strange land formations, and the like. The land is the most beautiful I have ever seen. It's just breathtaking, you would have to see it to believe it.

The animals were probably the coolest thing to see in the park. Sometimes you will find them near the road, with dozen(s) of people trying to take pictures. (Or running from them in the case of the more aggressive animals hehe) My favorite of them was the elk. The ones we saw(see my pics) were just really cool animals. They are big and majestic, yet they kind of look bored. hehe Also the buffalo(also called bison) were cool to see. They are truly gigantic animals, about as tall as a human and really big.

The hot springs around the park were great as well. They are constantly bubbling and making noises that sound like a toilet flushing. The water inside them is boiling, if you touch it you could get burnt and you would die nearly instantly if you fell in.

Also, the famous geyser Old Faithful was amazing to see. It's one of the "Wonders of the World" in the USA. Seeing it just erupt out of the ground was amazing. See my video.

Check out these pics I selected out of the many I took, they are truly awesome.

Click Here to see the photos

Enjoy!

[zouave]

These are pretty good pictures. Do you happen to have more?

This reminds me of an old National Geographic magazine I read. It talked about how people were coming more and more to National Parks. *sigh* Someday the park service won't be able to handle all the visitors.

[Asuka]

Thanks for sharing those interesting pictures. Especially your "Pit of Death" is very impressive.... *y*

[ghoulrealm]

Do you smell like brimstone now? X-D

I find the geologic history of the park fascinating. As well as the geographic beauty of the blue spring waters margined by the multicolored bacteria and even the boiling mud springs have their appeal. When I visited, I believe the highlight was the mammoth hotsprings terraces.

Edited July 30, 2007 by ghoulrealm

[Corvus]

Glad you had a good time. When I went, spent a lot of the time in the car roadblocked by buffalo. Next time I need to remember to bring a good book! :-D I loved Yellowstone for the geography, most. The geysers and hotsprings were simply amazing. However, I'd prefer to go to Alaska for the animals for two reasons: One, the animals in alaska are simply bigger, even the mosquitos. |-/ . Two, there are more. In one week, I saw no bears in yellowstone. In a week in alaska, however, I saw eight. Still, Yellowstone is simply amazing.

[ZeekyBoogeyDoog]

Glad you had fun! I'd love to visit there one day.

[Athos]

What? You didn't take a figure with you? If you had, I'd have included your trip on my blog.

Steve

[conductorjoe]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Yeah it was lots of fun.

@Athos: No, I didn't think of that, unfortunately. :-P

[SAMBO10794]

Love the Pics!

[LordGalewind]

You do know that a large part of the park is a giant caldera of a super volcano? It is literally one of the largest volcanos on the planet!!!! The worst part about it is that it is over do for a mega eruption X-O *wacko* :-( . This giant volcano explains why there is all the hot springs, geysers, acid pools, and such.

The current caldera in color, and the old caldera in the dashed outline

The volcano has the power potential of about 10,000 Mt. Saint Helens eruptions, and you know what that means...........

[SAMBO10794]

2023 update.

Edited January 20, 2023 by SAMBO10794
Cringe.

[jifel]

i went there this summer too and stayed inthe old faithful inn, words cant describe the natural beauty although i did get a little too close to a "statue" of a bison(15 feet,us,over 3 meter other) and got to see a few dozen bison slowly walking down a road and a line of almost400 cars behind them, along with a coyote and 9 puppies *wub* , and several giesers arupting, and a lot more

jifel

Edited September 18, 2007 by jifel