From the monthly archives:

August 2010

The West Yellowstone Hostel at the Madison Hotel is one of the nicest hostels you will find!  Located right at the West Yellowstone National Park entrance in the historic Madison Hotel, the hostel offers excellent rooms, nice common areas, free coffee and hot chocolate in the mornings and a bed and breakfast type ambiance to [...]

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Day #2 at the West Yellowstone Hostel at the Madison Hotel started out with cold rainy weather a not much motivation to get out into Yellowstone.  Most all of the in-town attractions were exhausted yesterday including the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center, the Yellowstone Historic Center Museum and the Yellowstone iMax theater.  Once things got [...]

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The Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone is one place where you are guaranteed to see wildlife around Yellowstone National Park!  When driving through Yellowstone you will definitely see bison along the road and probably right in front of your car on the road.  Elk are a common sight but bears and wolves [...]

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The first full day at the Hostel in West Yellowstone at the Madison Hotel started out with free coffee and hot chocolate at the hostel!  Given the frigid weather and light to moderate rain to start off the day that continued through till the afternoon, the warm complimentary drinks hit the spot.  The weather was [...]

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When in West Yellowstone (the town just outside the west entrance of Yellowstone National Park) there are a number of cool things to see and do within walking distance of wherever you are staying in the town.  The Yellowstone Historic Center houses a museum in West Yellowstone that features exhibits about the history of Yellowstone, [...]

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Overnight a cold rain fell at Yellowstone Bridge Bay campground.  Temperatures remained above freezing but probably not by much.  The rain fell hard at times and lightning filled the skies early in the night.  Throughout the night the rain ranged from a light drizzle lightly hitting the tent to a shower pummeling the rain fly [...]

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Sizzling Basin in the Mud Volcano area of Yellowstone National Park is one of many hot muddy lake-like features along the boardwalk in Mud Volcano.  Of all the features in the Mud Volcano area, Sizzling Basin is the most bland sight along the boardwalk.  Sizzling Basin does not bubble or erupt at all and when [...]

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Like most of the sights (and smells) in the Mud Volcano section of Yellowstone National Park, Churning Cauldron is another big muddy lake type of feature.  It is more aptly named than Mud Volcano and Mud Geyser (neither is an active geyser or volcano anymore) because it a is a big cauldron like lake and [...]

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Black Dragon’s Cauldron is a big smelly lake type thing in the Mud Volcano section of Yellowstone National Park.  Black Dragon’s Cauldron is located beside Sour Lake near the far end of the boardwalk in the Mud Volcano section of the park.  In order to hike from the parking lot to Black Dragon’s Cauldron you’ll [...]

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Mud Geyser at Yellowstone National Park is located in the Mud Volcano section of the park.  Mud Geyser used to be a geyser long, long ago but it now just another big, really big mud pit type of thing.  Mud Geyser still steams in areas and like everything else in the Mud Volcano area of [...]

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