Yellowstone National Park, Day One

After traveling the length of the Beartooth Highway for about three hours, we headed into Cooke City, Montana, for a quick lunch of sandwiches and root beer, after which we stopped in Silver Gate, Montana, for ice cream cones.  We finally reached the Northeast Entrance to Yellowstone National Park in the early afternoon of Friday, June 17 (on the seventh day after we left Philadelphia), and drove through the Lamar Valley (where we saw many herds of bison) to Tower-Roosevelt Junction, and then turned south for the drive to Canyon Junction. We checked out the Canyon Visitor Center, watched a movie on Yellowstone, and then drove the park loop road to Gardiner, Montana, for our lodging for the night. Along the way we saw bison, elk, deer, and even a grizzly bear!

At the Northeast Entrance:

A grizzly bear photographed by Conor at Tower Fall: