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Yellowstone

Here’s a quick summary of how I organised my six day trip to Yellowstone.

  1. Flew Vancouver -> Salt Lake City. Picked up rental car, bought gas + groceries and drove up to near the West entrance of Yellowstone. Slept in the back of the rental off a forest service road.
  2. Entered via West Yellowstone and drove anti-clockwise around the loop, sorting out my backcountry permits in Grant Village. I then continued around the loop to the Cascade Lake 4K5 Trailhead just north of Canyon Village and hiked into my campsite at Wolf Lake.
  3. Hiked back out, check out the canyon and then drove to Mammoth HotSprings via Tower Junction. After walking around the hot springs I drove down to the Biscuit Basin parking lot which was the trailhead for my hike to tonight’s campsite at Firehole Falls.
  4.  Hiked out and visited a bunch more geysers and hot springs in the Old Faithful areaContinued driving to the DeLacy Creek parking lot where I started walking to my next campsite ‘Bluff Top’ on the shores of Shoshone Lake.
  5. Hiked out and drove out the South Yellowstone gate and through Grand Teton National Park. Had an early dinner in Jackson before continuing south to a free campsite I found on Wikicamps, next to the Salt River – Whitetail Lane Recreation Area, just outside Afton.
  6. Drove down to Park City and did a few hours of mountain biking before driving over the hill to Salt Lake City and flying home.

4 states visited – Utah, Idaho, Montana (briefly), Wyoming

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