Old Faithful

This past week we went into Yellowstone Park and decided to take in some of the beautiful views. Our last trip here was in 1994 and we only were able to visit the highlights of the park. This time we decided to take some of the not so traveled routes to Old Faithful and see what we could find. Our first road we came upon was Fire Hole Canyon drive. This is the area that everyone that fly fishes end up going to. The drive proved to be quite spectacular. The Fire Hole Canyon was cut out many many years ago by hot lava from an erupting volcano. For those of you that are not aware of it, Yellowstone Park and its 2 million acres, actually sits on an active volcano area. The pictures posted below (as most all pictures) cannot began to show the actual beauty of the area.

We then continued on to an area called Fire Hole Flats where we found more buffalo in one place than we have seen almost anywhere else. When one is traveling in the park and comes upon traffic blocking the roads, it is a good bet you are going to see something out of the ordinary. Well this traffic jam came to a halt to view a bull elk with the start of a nice looking rack on it. On to Old Faithful we continued.

We entered into the Old Faithful area from a different direction than we had when we were out here in the 90’s. We kept looking at each other like we were in the wrong place, until we came around a bend in the road and saw the hundreds of cars. The light came on and we now knew we were in the right place. We walked around and visited the Old Faithful Inn, which by the way, is one of the most beautiful Inns we have ever seen. Again the pictures here do not begin to show the beauty of the craftsmanship that went into building this Inn. Our goal in sharing these photos is to give you the “itch” to someday come and see the beautiful sites that are here.