Post by: Tom Reichner on July 06, 2009, 11:12:52 PM
Post by: popeshawnpaul on July 06, 2009, 11:32:00 PM
Post by: Pathfinder101 on July 06, 2009, 11:35:47 PM
Post by: gasman on July 07, 2009, 05:29:02 AM
Great Pictures :tup:
Post by: Ricochet on July 07, 2009, 06:29:33 AM
Post by: Tom Reichner on July 07, 2009, 08:48:45 AM
I love Yellow Stone, it such a great place to be.And it's CHEAP, if you camp! Family of 4 - camping fee is $20/night for 5 nights. Take a bunch of food in coolers along with a camp stove, a few small propane canisters, and a couple pots. Drove 600 mi to get there, 900 while in the park for 5 days, and another 600 mi home. At 23 mpg, that's about $250 total gas cost. One night in a motel on the way there and one on the way back at about $70/night. Park admission already covered with my annual pass. We'd be buying the food anyway if we were home, so the whole vacation was only about 600 or 700 bucks by time you include meals on the road and incidentals. Family of 4 gone for a week for $700 - and to a great place like Yellowstone!
Great Pictures :tup:
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on July 07, 2009, 08:55:36 AM
Post by: robb92 on July 07, 2009, 09:12:59 AM
Post by: Slider on July 07, 2009, 10:35:18 AM
Post by: bigdave on July 07, 2009, 01:11:57 PM
Where do you like to camp in the park? We like to stay at Norris.
Post by: tlbradford on July 07, 2009, 05:01:49 PM
Post by: popeshawnpaul on July 07, 2009, 06:09:09 PM
Post by: searchnfor on July 07, 2009, 08:12:36 PM
Post by: Tom Reichner on July 07, 2009, 10:39:21 PM
Tom,With the kids it's nice to be near services, so we stayed at Canyon this time. The showers were a short walk from the tent, as is the entirety of Canyon Village. The kids each enrolled in the "Junior Ranger Program", and it was nice to be so close to the visitor's center from which that program is run.
Where do you like to camp in the park? We like to stay at Norris.
When I'm there by myself I'm just there to photograph wildlife, and spend almost every minute of daylight doing so. Therefore I'm never at the campsite except to sleep. Leave the campground at around 5am, return well after dark. So on those kind of trips I really don't care about the ambiance of the campground - I just need a place to pitch the tent. I like to use Mammoth on those occasions because it's so close to Gardiner, which has meals available, as well as cell service, gasoline, etc.
Bigdave, Norris is a beautiful place to camp. Many Yellowstone diehards prefer to camp there over anywhere else.
Here's another pic I forgot to include earlier:
Post by: Austrian Hunter on July 08, 2009, 11:20:17 AM
I love Yellow Stone, it such a great place to be.And it's CHEAP, if you camp! Family of 4 - camping fee is $20/night for 5 nights. Take a bunch of food in coolers along with a camp stove, a few small propane canisters, and a couple pots. Drove 600 mi to get there, 900 while in the park for 5 days, and another 600 mi home. At 23 mpg, that's about $250 total gas cost. One night in a motel on the way there and one on the way back at about $70/night. Park admission already covered with my annual pass. We'd be buying the food anyway if we were home, so the whole vacation was only about 600 or 700 bucks by time you include meals on the road and incidentals. Family of 4 gone for a week for $700 - and to a great place like Yellowstone!
Great Pictures :tup:
Family of 4 at Yellowstone Park for a week--"Priceless" ;)
Post by: Jeffrey on July 08, 2009, 03:54:26 PM
Hey- Looks like you scared the living daylights out of that rabbit, in pic 2 :yike: :chuckle:.
Post by: zackmioli on July 09, 2009, 08:31:48 AM
Post by: A4effort on July 09, 2009, 01:10:04 PM