Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

On Tuesday we traveled from Cody to Yellowstone National Park. We’ll let the photos tell the story.

Photo 1: An original stagecoach used on the run to Deadwood, South Dakota. Photo taken in the Buffalo Bill Centre of the West in Cody, a great Smithsonian museum.

Photo 2: Shell River Canyon, which we passed through on the way to Yellowstone.

Photo 3: Bear Tooth Mountain. Snow melt is still under way.

Photo 4: Our tour coach showing our Driver, Randy, going above and beyond the call of duty.

Photo 5: The Silver Gate entry to Yellowstone. The Park sits on top of an ancient volcano which is about 2700 square kilometres wide. As a result the Park is dotted with numerous geothermal features as some of the following photos show.

Photo 6: Bison, of which there are about 4900 in the Park. By the way, Bison are often referred to as Buffalo (hence Buffalo Bill) but the correct name is Bison.

Photo 7: Liberty Cap. This is a dormant hot spring cone, one of many distinctive geological features of the Park.

Photo 8: Elk resting on limestone created by geothermal activity.

Photos 9 and 10: The Travertine Terraces. The white limestone is the newer stone and the dark the older. The water flows is about 110 degrees Celsius!!!

Photo 11: Gibbon Falls.

Photo 12: Mother Bison and calf.

Photos 13 to 17: Fountain Paint Pots. Such and amazing geothermal feature we had to put in lots of photos. Boiling water, boiling mud – take your pick.

Photo 18: Trees killed by absorbing poisonous minerals from volcanic ash.

Photos 19 and 20: Old Faithful Geyser, so named for the amazing regularity of its eruptions.