A little information to orient you:
· Yellowstone National Park is huge, the size of several small European countries or TWO average states in the USA, at 3,471 mi². (We pushed hard to reach the border of the park, only to find we had two more hours of driving just to reach our campsite roughly in the middle of it, near Yellowstone Lake.)
· It’s impossible to see Yellowstone’s best features in just a few days. (We stayed for six, and by then had sketched out where we wanted to explore more deeply.)
· Visiting the Park during a pandemic was perhaps not the optimal time. Most of the amenities, lodgings and eateries were closed, many of the roads were undergoing major repairs, and yet the place was clogged with visitors.
· Yellowstone has five “gates” and each one goes into a hugely different area and state.
· Most of Yellowstone is in Wyoming, but parts are also in Montana and Idaho.
· Yellowstone was the first National Park ever created (1872) …
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