Day 10 - Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

This post comes to you as we depart Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park for Salt Lake City, UT. We entered the park this morning through the Roosevelt Arch in the north entrance. We drove through Mammoth Hot Springs, Canyon Village, and West Thumb on our way to Old Faithful. The drive south through the park yielded many wildlife sightings right on the side of the road, including bison, moose, and deer. We also drove by Yellowstone Lake, which we learned, is the highest altitude lake in North America. Another honorable mention is seeing the Continental Divide. Which is where the watershed of America is divided between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This divide runs from Alaska, through Canada, and along the Rocky Mountains.


For those of you that have not heard of Old Faithful, it is Yellowstone's trademark attraction and also one of it's most predictable geysers. It is located in the park's Upper Geyser Basin, which has the largest concentration of geysers in the world. Eruptions usually occur about every 1 to 1.5 hours. We grabbed lunch and waited, and when the geyser finally erupted, we were fortunate enough to be in the direction that the wind was blowing (sarcasm), so we got sprayed down by the sulphuric water.