Yellowstone Natl Park - Day 4 - Sept 20

Today our goal was to drive to the Fishing Bridge area ands VC, Hayden Valley, Yellowstone Lake and to stop and tour the Mud Volcano area of the park. When we arrived at the Park entrance the angers told us that all roads where open, but another storm was coming later in the day and they close at anytime. We decided to take our chances and headed for the Fishing Bridge area of the park. (see link below)

Fishing Bridge and surrounding area guide

The drive thru the Hayden Valley was beautiful, but very uneventful - as we saw very little wildlife (perhaps because of the weather), but the scenery more than made up for it. We decided to travel to the farthest point in our trip  - Yellowstone Lake. (see link below). The area in and around the lake is beautiful and the scenery is spectacular, however, we spend very little time there as the wind and snow where beginning to pick up...so decided to start our return trip a little earlier than expected. Below is a link to the Lake Yellowstone area.

Lake Yellowstone - looking East

Yellowstone Lake

Making our back, the next stop was the Mud Volcano area, this is quite an interesting place and we did end up spending quite a bit of time here exploring the area.

Here is a video link:

mud volcano video NPS

Mud Volcano - video

Mud Volcano - signage

Mud Volanco area

Wife & I at Devil's Cauldron area - Mud Volcano area

The weather didn't get any worse and the snow held off, so after a long day of touring the Fishing Bridge and the surrounding area, we began our journey back over the pass and our rental home ..arriving at 8pm...after a late supper everyone retired for the evening....having spend another wonderful day in Yellowstone.

Not all that wander are lost