Our Last Day at Yellowstone National Park

Our last day at Yellowstone. We have had such great weather the last few days; we are going to miss the cold mornings and pleasant afternoons, but we’ve seen the entire park so time to move on tomorrow.

We have a good breakfast and then head off to “hike” Uncle Tom’s trail. On the drive to the trail we stop at Hayden Valley to watch a grizzly and her cub.

Uncle Tom's trail has been closed due to ice/snow, but was opened up yesterday. The trail is not much of a trail—it’s 328 stairs down to the bottom of the Lower Yellowstone Falls.

Views from the trail:

We then visit the brink of the Upper Falls, have a picnic lunch and then hike the North Rim Trail to the brink of the Lower Falls. (The North Rim Trail is closed beyond this point due to construction).

On the North Rim Trail, we pass a huge waterfall that also will eventually drain into the Yellowstone River:

We stop for ice cream (Buffalo Chip) and then head back to the campground.

Joe and I go in the woods behind our trailer and he builds a “pirate ship” with logs that are laying in the area. Kindof like playing with really large “Lincoln logs”.

We bike down to the Fishing Bridge before dinner for one last look at the Yellowstone River.

After dinner we start packing up so we can leave by 9am tomorrow. Jere and I go for a short ride to see if we can spot the grizzly and two cubs that we’ve heard are often seen up the road. No luck seeing bears, but pretty sunset to finish out our day.