Yellowstone In The Fall

Above, Yellowstone's Gibbon River. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

My only trips to Yellowstone National Park had been during the summer and spring months, but autumn offers some interesting things to see.

The Cody Enterprise has an article on what one can expect to see if visiting the park during the autumn months.

It begins with:

Autumn in Yellowstone National Park can be beautiful and it can be a beast. 

On a recent end-of-season drive through the Park it was both. Snow at high elevations and dry on the main roads. 

At this time of year, the summer season is mostly a fading memory. The largest crowds of tourists have vanished. The bison seem bolder, although they mostly don’t even care at any time if pickup trucks and cars try to intrude on their path. 

Bison have the right of way in the world’s oldest national park and they seem to know it.

While the opportunity to buy snacks, stop in a bathroom or purchase a T-shirt is limited as the concession buildings shut down one-by-one, the trade off is you won’t get stuck crawling behind a Winnebago for miles 20 mph below the speed limit.

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