This page is about a trip we took with our family from July 25, 1992 - August 8, 1992 to Yellowstone National Park and The Grand Tetons. We traveled with our family of four, my Mom and Dad, and my sister's family of four.
Saturday - July 25, 1992
We left from Bentonville, Arkansas and traveled to North Sioux City, South Dakota where we spent the night in an RV park.
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| At the rest stop in Kansas where we stopped for lunch. |
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| Mike and I at the rest stop |
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| Amy, Dad, and Don outside the van. |
Sunday - July 26, 1992
We traveled to Interior, South Dakota where we spent the night at a campground Badlands National Park. On the way we stopped in Mitchell, South Dakota where we ate lunch and visited the Mitchell Corn Palace. All the interior and exterior walls are covered with pictures made of different types of grains.
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| Corn Palace - Mitchell, South Dakota |
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| Francis Case Overlook on the Missouri River |
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| View of Badlands from our campsite |
Monday - July 27, 1992
We traveled from the Badlands to Gillette, Wyoming. On the way we stopped at Mount Rushmore.
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| Dad, Mary, Kelly |
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| Views of the Badlands |
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| Pronghorn |
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| Scott, Kelly, Amy, Mary |
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| Scott and Eric at Mount Rushmore |
Tuesday - July 28, 1992
Traveled from Gillette, Wyoming to our campsite just outside of Yellowstone in the Roosevelt National Park. We stayed at Flagg Ranch Campgrounds from July 28 - August 4. During this time we visited Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
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| Mike, Dad, Eric, Amy, and Mary at the campsite |
Wednesday - July 29, 1992
Drove into Yellowstone today. We walked around the loop by Old Faithful and visited the Yellowstone Lodge.
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| Eric, Mary, Mike, Jennifer, Dad, and Amy waiting for Old Faithful to erupt. |
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| Old Faithful |
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| Another hot springs near old Faithful |
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| Grotto Geyser |
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| Hot spring seen from the trail |
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| Yellowstone Lodge |
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| Another view of Old Faithful |
Thursday - July 30, 1992
Went into the Teton area and into Jackson Hole today. While in this area we drove up Signal Mountain where we saw our first moose and a ptarmigan.
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| Eric, Jennifer, Scott, and Kelly with the Teton Mountains in the background. |
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| Teton Mountains |
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| Amy taking a picture of Mount Moran |
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| View of the Rockie Mountains and the Snake River from Signal Mountain |
Views of the National Elk Range close to Jackson.
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| A ptarmigan we saw on Signal Mountain |
Friday - July 31, 1992
Went back into Yellowstone today. On our drive in we was a large herd of bison. We started by going to Goose Lake to go fishing. No one had any luck fishing. Scott tried to fish in a stream that runs through Fountain Flats by the lake, but was swarmed with biting insects and had to run back to get away from them. We drove to look at the grand canyon of Yellowstone and the lower falls. While there, Mike noticed that the van was overheating so we went into Yellowstone Village and got the radiator repaired. After that we viewed the upper falls of the Grand Canyon, hiked the trail around the Mud Volcano area, saw an elk and a bull moose at two different places while driving. This was a very fun day, even with the car issues.
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| Eric, Jennifer, Scott, Kelly striking a silly pose at a pull over by the side of the road. |
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| Mom and Amy taking pictures |
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| Kelly, Jennifer, Scott, and Eric |
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| One fairly large bison |
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| Herd of bison |
Several pictures taken while at Goose Lake.
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| Amy and Mary taking pictures. |
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| Scott trying to catch a fish |
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| Jennifer, Eric, Kelly, and Dad |
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| Jennifer and Eric |
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| Scott, Mom, and Mike |
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| Stream in Fountain Flats that Scott wanted to fish in |
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| Elk we saw by the road |
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| Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon |
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| Grand Canyon of Yellowstone |
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| Scott, Mary, and Don while we wait for the van to be fixed |
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| View from the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone |
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| A view from above the falls |
The next three pictures are from the hike around Mud Volcano
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| Mud Caldron |
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| Dragon's Mouth |
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| Sour Lake |
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| A good view of a bull moose by the side of the rode on our way out of Yellowstone. |
Saturday - August 1, 1992
We drove to Cody, Wyoming to meet one of Dad's former students for lunch and to go through the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. We had to drive all the way through Yellowstone to get to Cody. On our way to town, we was a cow and calf elk. Then on our way back from Cody we saw three grizzlies by the side of the road in the same area. We didn't get any pictures of them grizzlies because my camera broke while I was trying to get pictures. We also saw a black bear on our way back to our campsite. The ranger was shooting blanks at the black bear to get it to leave the road. Cody and the Buffalo Bill Center were interesting, but it was a long ride there and back.
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| Cow and calf elk on the way to Cody. Same place we saw the grizzlies later in the day |
Sunday - August 2, 1992
Went back into the Teton
National Park today and spent time at Jackson Lake. Kind of a lazy day after the long day yesterday.
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| Enjoying time at Jackson Lake |
Monday - August 3, 1992
Went back into Yellowstone for the last time. We went to the Pebble Creek area to view the scenery in a different part of the park. We had a picnic lunch in the Pebble Creek campground where a doe deer walked right into the picnic area. We drove around some more. Didn't hike because it started raining. Really the only rainy day we had. We drove through the Mammoth Springs area and then headed back to camp.
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| Kelly, Jennifer, Scott, Eric, Dad with deer in background |
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| Don, Amy, Jennifer, Mary, Scott, Eric, Kelly |
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| View on the way to Pebble Creek area |
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| Kelly and Don walking to the petrified tree area |
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| Petrified Tree |
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| Mammoth Hot Springs area - raining hard while we were there |
The next three photos are of Lewis Canyon that we drove by as we entered and left Yellowstone. There had been a large forest fire several years before we visited. You could see the burned trees and all of the new growth.
Tuesday - August 4, 1992
Our last day before leaving this area. We went into the Grand Teton National Park, tried some fishing, and did a little hiking.
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| Mike, Eric, Scott, Dad, Mom, Jennifer, Kelly, Amy, and Don |
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| Mary, Eric, Scott, Dad, Mom, Jennifer, Kelly, Amy, Don |
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| Cunningham Cabin - we hiked a short trail around this |
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| Mount Moran - it's hazy because of forest fires to the west |
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| Tetons with the Snake River in the foreground |
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| Eric, Scott, and Mike fishing from Cattleman's Bridge on the Snake River |
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| Mike and Scott trying to catch fish |
Wednesday - August 5, 1992
We packed up and left Flagg Ranch this day. We stopped in Jackson to get the van's water pump fixed. While the guys were taking care of that, the women and children walked around town, bought some souveniers, and ate lunch at a Mexican restaurant. After the van was fixed we hit the road and ended up staying in Rawlins, Wyoming at the Golden Spike Motel.
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| View of Wind River Mountains as we are driving |
Thursday - August 6, 1992 through Saturday - August 8, 1992
Traveled to Ogalla, Nebraska on Thursday. We stopped there a little early because of the weather. We actually out ran a small tornado that was behind us on the interstate. On Friday we continued our drive home. We separated from Amy and Don's family as they headed south. We spent the night in Abilene, Kansas at a KOA campground. It was extremely hot and the mosquitoes were horrible. On Saturday we continued on arriving in Bentonville that afternoon. A fun trip.
