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To help broaden my base as a Travel Examiner on Sunday I drove from Glasgow to the far southwestern corner of Wyoming and returned on Monday to Billings via the Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park and West Yellowstone, Montana because the north entrance was still closed due to the snow. This trip allowed me to cover the two last parts of Wyoming that I hadn't been to yet and then see the Teton Range and the Park for future reference. There was snow along most of the central and northern portions of the park although it was a warm, sunny 18th of May. http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htm http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Yellowstone_National_Park
I don't plan on making Wyoming a major part of my travel Blogs just yet as I want to do most of our sightseeing in The Treasure State but maybe a future article something like: '10 Reasons Montana is Way Better than the Cowboy Threw-Up State' or 'Montana Good -- Wyoming Bad!' something like that, we'll see.
Traffic in the park in the middle of May was not too bad, I guess, as bad as can be expected but I got a good idea of how horrible it must be around the 4th of July. My one complaint is to the tourists who amble along in the road at 5-15 mph and clog up traffic when they should pull over occasionally and do their sightseeing from foot or at least not while they are also driving and tour bus drivers should absolutely pull over every so often but the ones I had to pass weren't pulling over at all.
I got a kick out of the synthetic reverence I'll call it from people in the park. Excuse me but, Aum mani padme hung Aum, that's ridiculous. There's nothing sacred about this place over any other places and some other places are indeed sacred. So, if you want to be remembered just tell a raunchy joke to a group of strangers and have a good chuckle at the gasps in reaction.
The thermal pool portions of the park are interesting but there was a definitely noticeable lack of wildlife. No moose, no bear, no bison ... and did you know that back at the inception of the park the naturally occurring raccoons were poisoned into extinction? It's a fact! I guess they were going to bother the Homo sapiens. So Sacred Woods? The raccoons don't get no Sacred Woods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton_National_Park
The Grand Tetons
If you would like to save the $25.00 seven day pass fee for your vehicle and party I think the view along U.S. Route 89 between the Gallatin and Absaroka Ranges from Gardiner to Livingston is about a good as anything in the park and you can see as much of the Tetons as you like without paying anything from U.S. 191 above Jackson, WY and I think it would be fun to see the Tetons from state highways 31 or 33 over in Idaho and Montana Route 22 over to there is one of the great ways to get back home without having to follow a long line of cars through the maze of roads in the park. http://nris.mt.gov/gis/gisdatalib/downloads/mtrange.pdf
Absaroka Mountains Near Livingston Montana
Gregan Wortmann
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