Yellowstone & Beartooth Pass (7/7/23 Fri)

The Nelson Canyon may no longer be a campground, but the Canyon might still have that name? I hiked both the lower and upper falls, as well as what they call Yellowstone's Grand Canyon. It was all very pretty.

I stopped for a few photos along the route out of Yellowstone's Northeast entrance. There are a lot of wide open mountain ranges and huge fields in this part of the park. I took pictures of a close buffalo and with the cheap camera snapped many photos of distant herds.

After leaving Yellowstone park I travel up into Montana then back into Wyoming to enter the Beartooth national park area. During my breif ride through Montana it rained heavily. A gas stop provided a short dry pause, only long enough for a slow fillup.

The Beartooth Pass was fantastic. I really hope all the cheap camera shots come out because it's staggering how pretty that area is. I did capture a number of great views with my phone. The weather held off rain/snow for my passage, but it temps dropped down to 40F. Once away from the mountains and ahead of the rain it climbed back upto 79F.

Eventually I will have engogh bandwidth to post all these photos. The park system didn't offer wifi and had very little cell coverage. So I'm days behind in photos.

After exiting the pass the rain was chasing me. I pushed on to get ahead of it and almost stopped in Lauray at a riverside rv campground. But they had no bathrooms, so I pushed on to Billings where their KOA was full, but I found a tent site at the nearby Yellowstone campground. I did eat mexican food in Lauray, so there was little to do in Billings except catch up on my blog entries. And fix those I messed up the dates for.