Day 2 - Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - Yellowstone - Photos   Tue 9/29/26   Wed 9/30/26   Thu 10/1/26   Fri 10/2/26   Sat 10/3/26   Sun 10/4/26   Mon 10/5/26   Tue 10/6/26  

       Near Cody, Lake Yellowstone

Day 2 - 9/29/29

Buffalo Bill museum in Cody. It was huge and very well done. Spend a couple of hours there.

Stopped briefly at trail town exhibit but decided not to go in.

Drove through? National Forest on way to Yellowstone. The scenery was amazing with all the rock formations on both sides.

Arrived at lake Yellowstone around 4 pm. Staying in a cabin at Hotel. Relaxed and then went for a walk. The lake is huge and very scenic.

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Day 3 - Thursday, October 1, 2026 - Yellowstone - Photos   Tue 9/29/26   Wed 9/30/26   Thu 10/1/26   Fri 10/2/26   Sat 10/3/26   Sun 10/4/26   Mon 10/5/26   Tue 10/6/26  

       Near Lake Yellowstone, Canyon Village, Old Faithful

Day 3 - 9/30/26

Day 3-9/30/26

Note: we both had terrible night sleep

Heater not working in our cabin and not enough extra blankets. We cuddled in one double bed, but hard to get comfortable.

Day 3 - 9/30/26

9:00- Our tour guide, Owen, met us at “Fishing Bridge Store. It was only about 5 miles away from our our hotel.

We passed the Yellowstone river which flows into the Missouri river. It is the longest undimmed river in the lower US flowing over 600 miles.

Our first stop was Hayden Valley. We saw a large herd of bison. There are about 5000 bison in the Yellowstone which encompasses 2,200,000 acres and is completely surrounded by national Forest.

As we were as we were driving to Artist Point which is at one and of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. There is a 308 foot waterfall absolutely beautiful. We saw two coyotes walking along the edge of a creek as we were driving to the waterfall. The Canyon is very deep and much narrower than the real Grand Canyon.

Our next stop was at the upper Falls, which is 100 feet at the other end of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.

After that, we stopped at Madison Junction, picnic area, and eat our bag lunch.

On to fire hole Canyon, river, and waterfall. It has volcanic cliffs on both sides of the river. It is the only river that doesn’t freeze in the winter because it is fed by hot springs upstream. We passed an osprey nest at eye level. There are only 12 left in the park due to loss of the type of fish they like to eat trout I guess. We passed the tower geyser area. Yellowstone has 500 of the 1000 worldwide geysers.

Next we went to the grand prismatic geyser which has blue green, turquoise, black brown different colors in the pools and likes due to microbes and bacteria. We walked out on the board walk, which was very well done and planned out.

We drove onto old faithful. We saw the hotel where we’ll be staying for a couple of nights later and then at exactly 2:22 pm about Kaiser erupted sending water spouting up about 50 feet in the air and it lasted for about three minutes. It goes off approximately every 100 minutes so our guide knew exactly when to make sure we were there. It was quite awesome and beautiful.

Our last stop was at Black sands basin where we saw mud pots, and geyser again similar to the prismatic geyser but much smaller and less crowded also Our final stop was Kepler Falls. And then we returned to the fishing bridge store and the tour was done.

We drove back to our hotel/cabin and got ready for dinner which we ate out lake Yellowstone hotel We visited briefly with our new friends from Cape Coral . They both graduated from Western Illinois in Macomb and their son graduated from Purdue so we found several things in common.

It was a lovely day and I’m so glad that we did it. Hoping for a better night sleep I’m sure it will. When returned to our cabin, the heat was blasting and we had extra blankets as we have requested earlier in the morning.

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Day 4 - Friday, October 2, 2026 - Yellowstone, Yellowstone - Old Faithful - Photos   Tue 9/29/26   Wed 9/30/26   Thu 10/1/26   Fri 10/2/26   Sat 10/3/26   Sun 10/4/26   Mon 10/5/26   Tue 10/6/26  

       Near Canyon Village, Lake Yellowstone

Day 4 10/1/26

Day 4 10/1/26-Lake Yellowstone Cabins(2nd night) I slept well, had plenty of heat. Don must have slept wrong because he gets shooting pain in his neck to the middle of his head whenever he turns his head. He went to the clinic when we got back from our adventure described below.

9:30 AM started on a drive north we went tower Falls. Not a real big waterfall, but beautiful views all around.

Next, we drove up to Lamar Valley. We saw a couple of herds of bison. At one point traffic was stopped while some bison slowly crossed the road. The views of the valley were breathtakingly beautiful.

We stopped at Tower Falls general store on the way down. We ate a bison brats. It was $16.99 so we only got one and shared it, but it did have some potato chips with it, Don wanted to add.

I drove for a while. We stopped at the Mud Volcano, which is pretty much what the name describes. It's mostly bubbling up mud with no big geysers or anything but beautiful views again.we climbed up a long steep walkway to view another boiling mud lake. We saw evidence of bison, footprints and poop.

Back at cabins at Lake Yellowstone. We walked to Lake Lodge and had a bison burger, pretty dry, not particularly good then I walked out by the lake and then we went back to our cabin.

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Day 5 - Saturday, October 3, 2026 - Yellowstone - Old Faithful - Photos   Tue 9/29/26   Wed 9/30/26   Thu 10/1/26   Fri 10/2/26   Sat 10/3/26   Sun 10/4/26   Mon 10/5/26   Tue 10/6/26  

       Near Lake Yellowstone, Headwaters Lodge & Cabins, Jenny Lake

Day 5 - 9/2/26

We left the cabin at Lake Yellowstone hotel about 9 o’clock and drove down to the Grand Tetons.

We drove Route 89 which follows the Snake River and Jackson LakeWe stopped at several outlook points with beautiful views, including Oxbow turn out, Snake River Overlook, and Schwabacher. They all had incredible scenery. The Snake River was especially beautiful.

We continued down to Jenny Lake Visitor Center. Walk down to the lake, but we did not go walk up to the waterfall. It was like a 10 mile round-trip. Waited in a long car line to show our passes to Grand Teton National Park even though we had driven in it from Yellowstone.

We made a slight detour to Oxbow Bend Turnout. Another beautiful view of the river with mountains in the background.

Spending the night at Headwaters at Flagg Ranch. It’s located between Tetons and Yellowstone Parks. We have a nice cabins with Wi-Fi and even cell service.

We walked up to the cafe for a Lovely dinner in restaurant. I tried the loaded Mac and cheese. It was delicious, but I couldn’t only eat about half of it.

Back up to Yellowstone tomorrow.

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Day 6 - Sunday, October 4, 2026 - Yellowstone - Photos   Tue 9/29/26   Wed 9/30/26   Thu 10/1/26   Fri 10/2/26   Sat 10/3/26   Sun 10/4/26   Mon 10/5/26   Tue 10/6/26  

       Near Headwaters Lodge & Cabins, West Thumb, Old Faithful

Day 6-10/3/26

Day 6-10/3/26

9:15 Left headwaters cabins at Flagg Ranch.

9:40 Entered Yellowstone Park. Made a stop at Lewis Falls. a beautiful Falls on the Lewis River.

Stopped for about 10 minutes to look at Louis Lake. It’s a beautiful mountain lake. Boaters were launching their fishing boats and saw some campers and some fly fisherman.

Stopped at Grant Village and learn about the wildfire of 1988. It’s on the southern end of Lake Yellowstone.

11:30- Next, West Thumb Geyser Basin. Nice boardwalk around several geysers next to Lake Yellowstone. Lots of beautiful views. Not too crowded.

Day 7 - Monday, October 5, 2026 - Yellowstone - Photos   Tue 9/29/26   Wed 9/30/26   Thu 10/1/26   Fri 10/2/26   Sat 10/3/26   Sun 10/4/26   Mon 10/5/26   Tue 10/6/26  

       Near Old Faithful, Canyon Village

Day 7-10/4/27

Day 7-10/4/27

9:30- left old faithful in heading to the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. It is 42 miles from here. 36 degrees outside. Our room had double beds and was nice. It had a lovely view of several small geysers out the window.

We stopped at the Canyon Village visitor education Center. We saw two films. One was on the seeing things through the eye of a buffalo. And the other was about the ecology of the nutcracker bird and the white bark pine and how it all works together. The pinecones of the tree are very tight and don’t open up on their own. The Nutcracker opens some. He can store up to 100 seeds in his pouch under his beak. Then he hides them, but sometimes squirrels and bears dig them up and these seeds get spread and that’s how they propagate.

11:50 AM stopping at artists point in the canyon area.

We took the S. Rim Dr. to get to Artist Point and then stopping at the Upper Falls. View was incredibly beautiful down into the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Then we took the N. Rim Drive stopping at the brink of the upper Falls. We walked down a very steep switchback trail to get to the brink. It was worth it, but it was a challenge walking back up for sure.

We drove past inspiration point but did not stop. It was very crowded. We then headed back toward old faithful Inn. We saw a buffalo running alongside the road just before the turn off for Virginia Cascades. We did the loop around the Cascades but again very busy crowded and we did not stop. It looked like it was a large, open meadow.

We drove back to O. F. Inn. Took a walk down to the Firehole River. When we came back there were 2 bison grazing near Old Faithful.

6:30-We had a lovely dinner in the dining room. Don had made reservations months ago. We both had some Huckleberry Cider. It is brewed in Oregon. Very tasty.

Went back to our single queen bed room. Good night.

Day 8 - Tuesday, October 6, 2026 - Yellowstone - Photos   Tue 9/29/26   Wed 9/30/26   Thu 10/1/26   Fri 10/2/26   Sat 10/3/26   Sun 10/4/26   Mon 10/5/26   Tue 10/6/26  

       Near Canyon Village, Mammoth Hot Springs

Day 8-10/5/26

Day 8 - 10/5/26

Visitor Center at Old Faithful

10:07 Heading to Mammoth. Another beautiful day, 57 degrees.

We stopped at roaring Mountain and obsidian cliff on the way to Mammoth Hot Springs.

We also stopped at sheep eaters, and walked along the Gardner river path.

We drove through the Mammoth Hot Springs area and went into Gardner.

Ate lunch and got gas in Gardinrer and going back into Yellowstone to go to Mammoth Hot Springs area, where we will be spending the night.

First stop visitor center at Mammoth. Then we checked in to hotel. Got cabin #A3. It’s nice.

Decided to drive back south and see a few areas we missed. Saw Golden Gate Canyon. We stopped just above Mammoth area. I walked down on the boardwalk. Don’t feet very tired. He drove to our cabin and took our stuff in. He then drove back to the Liberty Cap parking lot to get me.

We were walking over to the dining room and a nice workers told us there was a herd of elk on the other side.

Then we had some huckleberry sorbet in n the dining room and then back to our cabin.

Plan to leave about 9:00 am for Bozeman tomorrow.