Bridger Guide

I’d suggest one of the numerous web sites such as below. A fantastic place to take a vacation, I highly recomend it!

Yellowstone is a great place. My recommendation is to try to find places to camp that are off the beaten path as the usual places can become extremely crowded during the summer season. The geothermal features are really cool to see, but there are many other beautiful places to see in Yellowstone that don’t have the HUGE crowds.

It may be a challenge to find a place to stay. An alternative plan may be to stay at Grand Teton National Park, which is just south of Yellowstone. Using this park as your base you will be able to visit both parks. Gros Ventre campground seldom fills even when all the others are full. A 7 day pass covers both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. I enjoyed the book, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park, a Frommer’s book. This book has a lot of good suggestions.

Remember it can get pretty cool there in the summer due to the high elevation. The official web site is

With the National Park Service.

I live about an hour from Yellowstone. There are MANY resources to finding out more about the park. First you need to decide what you want to do. Hike vs. visiting historic sites. One site that has quite a bit of information on it is Backcountry Secrets. If you are not major hikers I’d spend more time on the board walk type hikes. The site I suggested lists quite a few of them.

Another resource I’d say to check out is to Google Total Yellowstone Loon. This is a group of people who follow Yellowstone VERY closely and can give you quite a bit of information.

We camped in Yellowstone last July after a family reunion in Cody. Yellowstone was AMAZING . . . but plan on doing ALOT of driving to see the whole park. It’s HUGE !!! Sometimes we would drive for more than an hour at highway speeds to get from one site to another. Like the other person said . . . try to stay off the beaten path. The campgrounds were TERRIBLY crowded and you HAD TO HAVE RESERVATIONS MONTHS IN ADVANCE. Do your research and plan plan plan in advance.

I wouldn’t camp there, because of the bears. Call me a chicken. Bwwack!