Yellowstone’s Old Faithful

Beautiful sunny morning! Yea! A great day to visit Old Faithful geyser.
We get a fairly early start and head over to Old Faithful. It’s about a 40 mile drive, and we make only one short stop. I’m happy to see the blue skies, but wondering how long the great weather is going to last.

We get to the Old Faithful area and learn that we have an hour before Old Faithful erupts, but the ranger tells us that in the next 5-15 minutes, the Beehive geyser will erupt. We head over to Beehive, sit with the crowd and enjoy the eruption of Beehive geyser.

We eat our picnic lunch in the truck (it’s nice, but still not that warm at Noon) and then head over to watch Old Faithful erupt. We will see it erupt 3 times today while we’re in the area.

Then we spend the next few hours roaming around the boardwalk in the area, looking at hot springs and geysers.

At 3:30 we go to the Old Faithful Lodge for their tour. It’s a free tour given by one of the hotel staff and is really interesting. I absolutely love these old rustic national park lodges that were built in the early 1900s by the railroads. The Yellowstone Old Faithful Lodge was the first one of the rustic lodges to be built. There is so much “charm” and interesting features in the inside of this building.

We peruse the gift shops, watch Old Faithful erupt one last time and head back to the campground for a late dinner.