I giggled from that too..lol Gotta love em’..:) That’s ok, they’re such awesome people, and they have taught me so much about RV’ing, whether it be things we needed, didn’t need, or safety measures, that they can call the elk, moose, hehe, I didn’t mind..😂
Yep,they were elk. And actually Chad was correct (sorry Tara) a Bison is just the technical name for a Buffalo. Yellowstone Park is where it was first attempted to increase the Buffalo Herds after they were nearly brought to extinction in the late 1800. It was a good choice of places to try this, as the geothermal activity helped to keep the growing Buffalo herds alive during the harsh winters of the area.
Same, same, same!! I used to read reviews until I was blue in the face!! I would google for bed bugs in certain hotels, and pay 💰 way more money to try and avoid bed bugs, which, thankfully, DID WORK! However, it also cost us 10 thousand dollars for our last 10 day vacation!! That was it, we bought an RV!! And best yet, I never have to worry about taking our dogs in elevators and stressing them out either anymore. This year isn’t going as planned, of course, because of the pandemic, but we’re looking forward to many more! God Bless!! 🙏🏼
Isn’t there a kennel service around somewhere? I know it’s hard to part with Daisy. I have two dogs I travel with But sometimes it just makes more sense to put them in someone else’s care for a day. Less stress for the, AND you.
Had we known that the dog-friendly cabins were so bad, we would have found a place for her to stay. (Although I don't know that it would have been less stress for her 😜 Lol)
There is a KOA in West Yellowstone that will take up to 48 foot trailer's and RV's and it is 6 miles from the west gate into the park. staying there they will give you 3 day park pass with the price of the camp site. FYI next time
I came down here at the point where they were heading to Old Faithful to mention the same thing & see if others did as well. Indeed, Elk. Moose are darker, larger with lanky legs. ;-) And Artist Pass is a perfect spot show casing the bedrock stone from which "Yellow" stone gets it's name.
Great video. This is why I prefer a truck camper. Easy to drive and park almost anywhere and always have a place to sleep comfortably and clean. Yeah its smaller but I consider myself an Overlander.
Thanks for sharing Yellowstone, I went there in 2002 with my dad, called my mom to tell her we were there and she watched Old Faithful on the fed they have erupt as we did ! How cool, she was in Maine while we enjoyed the evening experience as well.
8:57 - Those Bison are huge when face to face - Recall one cresting a trail we were on in Montana, (near West Yellowstone park), it turned us around. We did not expect that massive locomotive, (looking), sizing us up for a possible snack.
Every year we go to Yellowstone and Grand Teton but...... we go in late January and leave the rv behind. You can only enter through the north entrance for Yellowstone that time of year but it’s amazingly beautiful. You can still camp in both places but won’t have running water. The visitor center parking in Teton has a single warmed bathroom though and it’s just across the road from the camp site. You do have to drive up and around the east side to get to Yellowstone and it’s a heck of a beautiful drive. We see bison, wolves, elk, deer, occasional bear and some of the most amazing winter scenery this nation has to offer. Sorry y’all had a bad experience but it still made for family memories!
Awesome video...for the sites. My dad would spend two weeks out there every year fishing. What a great day to have two Yellowstone videos dropped on the same day. You and Traveling Robert.
Gros Ventre Campground is a nice place to stay, near the Jackson Hold Airport. And moose hang out here. They walk right thru the campsites, liking to hang out along the river’s bank. Madison Campground, close to the west entrance of Yellowstone is a great campground as well. During fall the bull elk are along the banks of the river, bugling ! Such a beautiful, yet eerie sound I. The middle of the night.
I love you guys! I appreciate you showing us where to never stay when going to Yellowstone! They should be shut down, that is disgusting, and there is no reason to not have clean rooms, ever!
Unfortunately bed bugs are a very common issue in a lot of hotels, etc. Even the nicest places can get them and they are very difficult to get rid of. Always check the corners of the mattresses themselves, always check the corners of the room and in the cracks of furniture BEFORE you unzip your luggage. The lodge should have compensated them for any issues though.
When we were last at Yellowstone, we saw the beehive geyser go off. It was the first time it has gone off in 8 yrs. We just happened to be walking past it. That is what is cool about all the geysers along the walk, is seeing one that hasn't gone off in yrs. What a treat it is.
I went to Yellowstone with my wife and three daughters several years ago, and like you we stayed at the same place you did, except it was one of the buildings with 4 units in what I would say is the size of one cabin, but arranged in a square instead of a mini hotel like the one you stayed in. It was grubby and way to small, and after one night I called the 800 reservation line and told them the cabin was unacceptable. The woman on the phone said they had no rooms in the park left, with the exception on what she called a "dormer room" at the main lodge right next to Old Faithful, the one you showed in your video. She said no one wanted these rooms because there was no in-room bathroom, you had to go down the hall. These rooms are right over the main entrance to the lodge, and are in my opinion the best rooms in the lodge. You overlook the Grand Room, fireplace, etc, and the rooms are huge. Our room had three large beds with quilts on them, a sink, and great decorations. It looked like your grandmothers house, so comfy, and not like a hotel room at all. And right out the window are views of the geyser basin. You probably saw these rooms when you were in the lodge. There are areas in the front that face the giant fireplace that have gaming and reading tables. It was soooooo much better than that tiny grubby little quarter cabin. The price of the cabin back then was like $160, the price of the bigger dormer room was $80.00. We stayed there for the rest of our stay. Those dormer rooms are the hidden gems of the YNP, if you can handle walking down the hall to a common bathroom and shower area. I have recommended those rooms to anyone who tells me they are going to Yellowstone, and those who used them were not disappointed. One last thing, the room was exceptionally clean.
We stayed at lake lodge about 10 years ago. Same decor but cleaner sheets. My son did open the door one morning to find a bison standing directly outside the door. Although not the nicest accommodations, you certainly get to be close to wildlife there.
To see both parks we always stay in Gros Ventre CG in Moose, WY. You have a great view of the Tetons and moose and wildlife walk thru the CG. It is only 35-40 min maybe to the South Entrance of Yellowstone. Next time you go stay there, it won't disappoint.
In 1965 my parents rented a pop-up tent trailer. We drove in an a 1964 Ford Galaxy with no A/C from Independence MO. To Yellowstone to camp for a week, BTW I was 5 years old. I had a wonderful time and my Father captured every moment of his new Kodak Super 8 video camera. For us kids it was a great time. My Mother stated clearly that this would be the last camping trip that didn't have Hilton on the front of the camp. Thanks for showing and sharing pictures I remember from my childhood!
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In the age of the Internet, there is no reason to ever have a bad National Park experience as long as you look things up before you go. For answers to specific questions, look up a park online, email them, and pay attention to what the National Park Service people tell you. And just to make sure you don't end up looking totally Orange (Orange is the new Green), look up the word Touron and memorize the description, and never, I repeat **never** stop your RV in the middle of a busy road to take a picture of anything.
I just watched a video of when you you went Yellowstone. Nice video. Glad you brought Daisy. Hope your daughters had a great time. And hope you had a great time with them. Sad your lodge that it was not clean. I don’t blame you to tell the lodge managers that the sheets were not clean. The outtakes were funny as usual. Hope you enjoyed your holiday. Hope your have A Happy New Year! See you both soon and Daisy too. Stay safe. Safe travels.
Next time you go to Yellowstone, you need to look in to a RV park in West Yellowstone. It is a lot easier to get in to the park and when you go in to the park at that entrance you are in the middle of the park. You can go north, or south, or across the park to the east side in just about an hour. That is where I stay when I go to the park.
We went to Yellowstone in 2009 after we bought our Class A, and stayed at Fishing Bridge (I think the biggest rig they can hold is 35 feet). I laughed when you were commenting about seeing wildlife... After a long haul from Spokane, we came into the park via the north entrance with the setting sun. As we negotiated the pitch-black, narrow, winding roadway along the river to the campground, we saw a bush in the middle of the road. That moved. And blinked! At the same time as my foot stomped on the brake, my wife and daughter yelled, "BUFFALO!!!!!" Luckily, the tow gear and BrakeMaster in our towed Jeep worked as advertised, and we stopped with plenty of room as a herd of the beasts lumbered past us, heading up the roadway. We watched them fade into the darkness, and as their haunches faded from the strobing of our hazard flashers, we all let out a sigh and had a good laugh at the look on our dogs faces. Both our German Shepherd had never seen anything like those beasts, and they weren't certain what to make of the whole event! It is a beautiful place to visit, and GTNP is just as majestic. If you can possibly go there, you have to see it. It really is worth every minute of the trip. FYI, you weren't kidding about staying on the marked paths! While it's NOT magma that you could fall into (that could happen in Volcanoes National Park on Hawaiis Big Island, however....). In YNP it is the hydro-thermal features (heated by the magma deep underground) that can literally kill you and boil your corpse into nothingness. (Search for the news articles on 'Yellowstone hiker boiled away'). (Also, as noted below, those were elk in your video, not moose.) Glad you all had a great trip, and thanks for the laughs at the end!
We're from the UK and we did Yellowstone in a Cruise America RV - fantastic holiday! Previously we visited Death Valley and had a cabin - that was gross... used coffee still in the filter; open bag of crisps [chips] on the floor under the bedside cabinet; air con unit held in by Duck Tape! But the bed was clean and so were the sheets, thankfully! RV the way to go - although some of the side roads in Yellowstone were not accessible in the RV :-(
Last year the wife and i went to yellowstone. All the campsites with facilities were taken. We were told about a primitive campsite that had no reservations. We found a site, in the Tetons, at the base of a mountain, for next to nothing. Idk if i could get my 31mb back there but others had horse trailers and other smaller trailers back there. But so much to see out there for sure
Sorry for your bad experience to a wonderful park(s). Kudos to my wife. She booked us into Colter Bay Village RV park between YNP and GTNP. We thought it a perfect place to be and spent 5 days there. 2 days at YNP and 1 at GTNP. Another day in Jackson.
I've spent hundreds of hours at Yellowstone. I always go the last two weeks of September and always leave by October 3rd no later, the snow comes. I love the Kelly Inn in West Yellowstone, Montana. Best entrance into the Park by far. One thing is, if you want to see moose you don't see them in Yellowstone. Go to the Grand Tetons for them.
We are traveling from CO to WA in mid-September and would like to go through Yellowstone! Any recommendations of where to stay with our 26ft travel trailer? Any must see sights? Can we drive through the entire park? Thank you!
You should definitely let the Park Service know about the cabin--they hire the concierge service that manages the cabins and they would definitely want to know. I realize I'm only seeing this three years later but I still think it's important for the Park to know what may still be going on if no one has said anything. (And the moose you saw on the road at least were elk--moose have a distinctively big nose, more like a horse than a deer). My husband is retired National Forest Service, and the comment about letting the Park know comes from him. Some concierge companies are good and some aren't, and the Park won't know the difference unless they're told. So for sure keep up the good work--we love your videos, and are catching up on past ones while we wait for the latest--you guys rock!!
Sorry you had such a bad experience. As you’ve learned (as did I), you have to plan waaaaaay ahead to get a site for a large rig. We booked a site at Fishing Bridge on opening day (40’ Class A towing a car) and loved the location within the park. For Tetons we stayed at Coulter Bay RV Park - again, booked waaaaay early but it was so awesome!! We now have a Class B so hope to go back and check out the smaller, more primitive campgrounds. Love the entire area. Thanks for sharing your video - brought back some great memories.
Your videos are full of humorous clips & practical tips, fly-in maps, where NOT to stay & why (visual evidence), well-paired music, cool scenery... and yes, Daisy!
I’m so glad I saw what you went thru with your lodging. We planned on staying in the park. Well count that out. You couldn’t I guess get into to main lodge? A park you have to see is here in Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s just outside Estes Park.
We stayed in 2 or 3 of the lodges(actually had rooms in the lodge itself, not cabins) and were very pleased. We were very happy with our stay in the park. I had friends stay in the cabins on their trip and they had nothing bad to say.
You can't rely on one person's experience. Normally the lodging is very well taken care of. Something fell through the cracks. They have inspectors that inspect all rooms before they are released, so I have to wonder what happened. Your best places to stay is Lake Hotel, Old Faithful Inn, the remodeled rooms at Mammoth, or the new Canyon Lodges.
I was originally born in Wyoming... Upon returning to Wyoming and looking at Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons National Park we came to the conclusion you're either one or the other kind of person we're definitely Grand Teton people.
I have worked in yellowstone the last two summer, the canyon location only had 1 bed bug incident. Thankfully the room attendant was one of good ones and caught it, my advice if you plan to stay in the park again the newer the location the better. FYI employees call old faithful, old filthy.
The colorful springs there are actually living bacteria. "The hot spring has bright bands of orange, yellow, and green ring the deep blue waters in the spring. The multicolored layers get their hues from different species of thermophile (heat-loving) bacteria living in the progressively cooler water around the spring."
You could spend all summer there and not see everything, specially if you explore the Grand Tetons. It's an awesome area. And remember folks, you heard it first from Charlie!
I was there when I was ~9 y/o...~40 years ago. I don't remember much of it but would like to see it again. One of the things I remember was staying in a small motel room watching Prince Charles and Princess Di getting married from a B&W TV
Enjoyed Yellowstone National Park in a 16 ft Aljo camping trailer with my sister and parents on several occasions in the mid-1950's... So glad we missed you!...
We went to Yellowstone a few years back on our 20th anniversary. We only tent camped a few nights, and stayed in a different lodge each night for the rest of the week. Great way to see various areas of the park! Fortunately, we did not have your experience of things being dirty or stained. We also did not stay in the cabins you did. However, the cabins up in Roosevelt lodge area were charming. Glad we got a house sitter for our dogs, though! Thanks for sharing your journey. It brought back a lot of great memories! We also went to the Grand Tetons beforehand like you guys too. :)
enjoyed your video, took me back to my trip there in 2004. I have one picture from one of those “wildlife traffic jams” where I was looking the opposite direction, then turned around to find a bison “sneaking” up on me. One of my friends snapped the picture. I about needed to change my shorts!!! Great memories!!!
Why didn't you guys just drive up to Yellowstone in the RV and camp there a few days? Isn't that the whole idea of having an RV? Mobility? Several of Yellowstone's campgrounds are first come first served.....Norris, Mammoth, Tower, Slough Creek, Pepple Creek. Most days if you are there early you can get a sight. Of course there are no hookups, but with that rig you don't need hookups for a few days.
A Very good time to go too Yellowstone is February 1989. We Stayed in West Yellowstone, after walking into the Cabin we rented for three days and turning around and leaving. We walked the block back to our Van and left. then the next day we took a SNO Coach in, they dropped us off and we Skied into Old Faithful. Past the resting Elk who stayed resting. as we skied by and stopped to take pictures. This why we now RV to these places and only Hotel if we have to.
As a person who grew up in that area, buffalo is the correct term, just not the PC one. The falls are my favorite area, especially in the winter. The Lower Falls becomes a massive ice formation, with the spray from the river. Very impressive!
Last trip with my Grandparents was to Yellowstone! Stayed at Yellowstone Inn and it was awesome. I was 16 though and had no cell phone signal and didn’t appreciate the trip like I should have. I’ll be bringing my kids there when they are a little older. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!
I feel your pain on hotel filth. My wife and I have moved from room to room before and even went to different motels as well. In our RV at least our dirt is our dirt and our bathrooms are clean! Our sheets are clean and we know that our black lab 'Oreo' sheds on her blanket while sleeping on the bed. We did Yellowstone in 1977 and it doesn't seem to have changed much, still crowded.
Hi there, Just wanted to say thank you so much for all of your helpful videos! I'm a travel nurse & preparing to use my new 5th wheel for my home away from home by myself. You guys have given the public such needed info. THANK YOU!
I stayed in Gardiner MT as my basecamp when motorcycle touring off my Ninja. It was a perfect location allowing me to go into the Grand Tetons to the South for a day and all through Yellowstone for a few days.
I have lived and worked in the park. My job was Sr. Guest Service at Mammoth and in reservations. I want to add that if your room was that dirty, I hope you went to the front desk and talked to management,. Xanterra has a very strict way that cabins and rooms are cleaned. If there are bed bugs. If there is bedbugs and you reported them, they would check and close the whole cabin off. They have to fumigate. The cabins were part of the Mission 66 . They are slowly remodeling and fixing things in the park. They just finished a 25 million dollar much needed remodel on Mammoths Hotel, As to camping. Yes reservations should be made in advance for camp grounds through Yellowstone Reservations. Those 5 campgrounds allow for Generators till 8 pm. They don't have hook ups, Fishing Bridge is the only locations that has full hook ups and larger pull through. Last year it was closed due to Fishing Bridge Construction and is closed again this year due to construction. The hotels and lodges are expensive because of the remodels that the National Park Service wanted and the buildings and cabins needed. If you want to camp, and have a camper or motorhome that is under 30 feet check out the campgrounds that are first come first serve. They have great sights at Indian Creek and it is close to Mammoth, and you can travel to Norris Geyser Basin from there. If you want Lamar Valley, Pelican fills up fast because it is close to the Lamar Wolf packs. Over all if you have a sanitary issue talk to the front desk. What happened to you is a rare thing.
We rode through the park twice. We did have lunch at the lodge and at some park run restaurant along the way. We stayed in Cody. It was way nicer than the park accomodations. What I found was alot of eastern European college age kids working for the summer there. We had the full wildlife compliment while we were there. Bear, elk, buffalo, giant birds, we even watched a couple otters playing in a pond and I swear, they were entertaining us intentionally. They played then they'd stop. We clapped and they started playing again. My Mrs would have had some corprate investor in Yellowstone on the phone and having that place comped to us after that experience.
Stayed at Lake Hotel, about 10 Years ago. Glad we did it, but it was VERY pricey and the room was tiny. But we had a great view of the lake and I particularly enjoyed not seeing any cell phones except for photos. There’s was no cell service and people were forced to engage in there surroundings. Our room was clean and there was a nice laid back feel to it. Probably wouldn’t do it again though.
The outtakes are the best part.... Old Faithful Lodge had a room when we were there, 1 room....if I remember correctly it was $750 a night. I literally snorted and possibly tooted at the same time when she told me. It was beautiful though.
My family spent two weeks camping in a tent near what used to be called Fishing Bridge. I think that is where the Yellowstone river exits the lake. there were strict rules in place back then too, but many people ignored the rules, taking pictures of their children sitting on WILD Black bears, and kids chasing Bear through campgrounds. It was crazy some of the days. But we have great memories of the place. BTW no doubt, others have commented, but those were not moose at 14:54 they are Elk As were the animals out on the island. Beautiful nonetheless! :-).
Oh this is just the information I was looking for currently planning our first trip to GTNP & YSNP . Due to COVID our reservation at the OLD FAITHFUL INN , CANYON LODGE & MAMMOTH HOTEL may be cancelled. So I nabbed a few cabins that are supposed to stay open at Lake & Canyon. I wasn't sure about Lake Lodge as it kinda looked as you've described so I'm hoping that Canyon will be better. I'm like you creepy about germs in hotels let alone cabins. I usually bring my own bedding on vacation. YIKES ! There is no way I'm keeping the Lake Lodge Reservations after seeing this. Thank you, thank you , thank you. !
We took our trailer there in June of 2017. It was a little early, and the mosquitos were unbelievable! We stayed at Fishing Bridge and it's kind of swampy if there has been a lot of rain. Nice place otherwise. Mosquitos were not an issue anywhere else. I'm sure Fishing Bridge is fine once it dries up.
we Love you guys!!! found you recently amongst all the full time rv'er channels. we've been watching you previous episodes. So much useful information and enjoying your adventures. You are so down to earth... WE BEGAN OUR JOURNEY AFTER SO MUCH PLANNING.... and now mooch docking in Virginia Beach with friends awaiting this virus pandemic, you have inspired us and helped us to look forward to our dream of traveling the country and seeing the most beautiful places and meeting new friends. Thank you for being you! We hope to meet up with people like you along the way on our adventures. Thank you for such a wonderful point of view. our prayers are with you .
We were fortunate enough to get to stay at old faithful lodge on the spur of the moment due to a snow storm in June! It was a once in a lifetime experience!
Holy moly that cabin was horrible!! Glad you were still able to see things even if it didn't go to plan. Daisy trying to look around Chad's arm was hilarious!!
I camp there every other year and stay in the park. Reservations are always a plus. The best way to see the grand prismatic is going to the overlook on the way to Fairy Falls to get a view from above. Most spectacular. BTW - The cabins looked nasty. Thanks for showing us the inside, they do not look appealing.
Depending on cell service, you could FaceTime each other, the ones who are waiting with Daisy would be able to see what the ones hiking/ viewing are seeing and hearing what their comments are. We have done this sort of thing for my father-in-law for our son’s wedding, it would have been too much for him to be there physically but with FaceTime he was able to be “there”.
In 2018 we stayed in West Yellowstone at the Grizzly RV Park good camp ground for big rig sense we are a 42 footer 5th wheel and easy access to the west side of the Park. We were there in March and some of the roads are not open yet so timing is everything if you go that early the bears are just coming out of hibernation although Elk and Bison are moving around all over the place. Be Safe and Thanks for the Shows
We did Yellowstone as a family several yeas ago. We stayed at a nice hotel in Big Sky Montana...but, looooooots of driving through the park. It was actually a bit exhausting. But, we wanted to see all the things!
You should have gone to Firehole Falls swimming hole. One of our best experience while visiting YSNP, and is off the beaten path. It is only a ways up from the old faithful area.
We went to Yellowstone in 2012. We stayed at KOA west of the west entrance of Yellowstone. Had a great time. We took our dog everywhere we went no issues.
Chad, Tara, thank you so much for showing me this so I don’t end up spending 3 bills a night to stay in filth. Sorry you guys had to deal that that. Love the videos!!
For many years we drove from Fla. To ride motorcycle in North Carolina. The guidelines were drive 1 day up ride 2 days. Then drive 1 day home. Activity 2 times as much as travel . equates to much more fun.
We spent a week at West Yellowstone Grizzly RV park just a mile from the West entrance of Yellowstone. I'd suggest trying that. Also I believe those may be antelope in the road instead of moose.
I've stayed at the Lake Lodge during the last week of August almost every Summer for the last fifteen years. I have never had a single bad or unclean stay. The trailhead for my favorite hike (Elephant Back) is right behind the cabins, and the porch on the Lodge is my favorite morning coffee spot of all time (although, the porch is currently under maintenance - half section at a time). I have also stayed at every other spot inside the park, and my standard advice is ANY place inside the park is better than EVERY place outside the park. Yellowstone is huge if you are outside the park's borders you will spend most of your time driving; that's not my idea of visiting Yellowstone.
My experience at Yellowstone was that they brought in European college students on work-stay programs. I don’t care where you’re from, college students aren’t always the most reliable, especially when left unsupervised. I left and stayed in a motel just outside the park. It was much cleaner and the staff was very friendly.
Jessica, I was about to say the very same thing - that those "moose" are cow elk. (They even hand you flashcards at each gate). Also, you look at how cool the lodge at Old Faithful is, and it absolutely is! But out of curiosity once I walked up among the rooms while doors were open for cleaning. They are very primitive and mostly single beds, and some share bathrooms, although each room has it's own sink. And they are more expensive than Lake Hotel. If you want to complain about ANY concession or lodging there, you need to contact Xanterra, who has had the contract for MANY years. I live very nearby. Also, you could have found pet-friendly lodge-type lodging within minutes outside West Yellowstone entrance, North entrance in Gardner, or northeast entrance in Silvergate or Cooke City.
When Fishing Bridge RV opens it is OK but I'll tell you a few years ago it had very tight spaces and narrow lanes. Beautiful area though. We have never stayed in any of the hotel or lodge accommodations - only tent and RV camping. We last had a 30' 5th Wheel when we were there at Fishing Bridge RV. By the way, had a herd of Bison trot though the Fishing Bridge RV campground at the edge last street one of the nights we were there.
We love your channel and enjoy watching. We were thoroughly entertained by your “herd of moose”. Thank for the what not to dos as well. We travel to Yellowstone once a year. Our favourite place to stay near the park is West Yellowstone at the KOA. Thanks for sharing!
Having watched Yellowstone come back from the 1988 fires the trees never cease to amaze me. From miles and miles of burnt up pine to a beautiful carpet of green. What an amazing place! Nice video!
somebody beat me to it, your moose herd were elk and I may add elk is mighty tasty, on our Yellowstone trip this past year we stayed at the KOA in West Yellowstone and drove to the park daily. We had a good trip and it was okay. My personal experience since I grew up outside of Yellowstone, is to visit after Labor Day, as the crowd are really thinned down due to kids in school etc. PS let me know if you want some elk meat, I have it in my freezer and willing to share!
We had decided that we would like to take a cabin around the the Old Faithful Lodge area and made a reservation almost a year in advance. At check in time, we went to check it out and quickly decided to forego cabin stay. They had a long waiting line for any available cabin so they did not penalize us for reneging on the reservation. The town of West Yellowstone had a small campground with campsites available so we stayed there, and were glad we did. The west National Park entrance is really close to Old Faithful and to the town of West Yellowstone. We were really glad for the choices we made. We started out at a campground at the edge of Jackson Hole and used that for touring the Tetons and then used our site in West Yellowstone for Yellowstone National park. That was a great trip!!!
May I ask how long of a drive it was for you from West Yellowstone to inside the park ? Still debating if we should cancel our inner park reservations.
As we are supposed to head here this summer, originally we were going to camp at one place and try to do both Yellowstone and Tetons, but we changed our minds and are staying near Yellowstone, and then traveling to another campground near Tetons. Glad we did after your video.
meany years ago I was transferred from NV to MT and I had to go through yellowstone to get their. now I am pulling my 5th wheel trailer since I live full time in there because work transfers me quite a bit back then. no I am going through off season (winter) and the park is closed but the road is open. now I do run at night a lot never bothered me. So it is like 1 in the morning and I had made a wrong turn and ended up in the appt. section for the employees but like I said it was shut down, but as I looked for a place to turn around there were 2 bull elk at the swing set area for children. They were fighting and I just had to watch as it looked like they were fighting over the swing set. lots of fun. If you are still in the area go to the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum and plan on at least 1 day if not 2 to see it all. the Remington art museum wing is well worth it. as always enjoy stay safe sorry you had bed bug problems.
Thank you for sharing your experience honestly. Planning on a trip to Yellowstone later this year and so appreciated your story. Loved the scenery shots!
You can stay at Yellowstone Lodge, last minute: Just talk to the front desk and wait in the lobby for a cancellation. There are so many rooms that there are daily cancellations. If you hang around and work with the front desk, it’s likely that you can get a room.
Hate to tell you this, but the first time I visited Old Faithful Lodge years back, on my motorcycle no less, upon entering the parking lot there was a Moose. (not an Elk) ambling through the parking lot with a park ranger more or less herding him along and keeping visitors at a distance. Great place, and I certainly enjoyed your video. I'm sure you probably considered this option but Cody, WY might have been a closer option both for lodging and RV. They have multiple RV Parks and Camp Grounds, as well as hotels, motels and bed and breakfast places to stay. It is also a great little historic town, lots of fun to visit there.
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Those “moose” are actually elk.
Jessica Zezulka lol thought those were funny looking moose not like the ones out here in Maine lol
Haha being a Wyoming Native.. . I got a chuckle out of them calling the elk.... "moose"
I giggled from that too..lol Gotta love em’..:) That’s ok, they’re such awesome people, and they have taught me so much about RV’ing, whether it be things we needed, didn’t need, or safety measures, that they can call the elk, moose, hehe, I didn’t mind..😂
Yes, Elk. Not Bullwinkle.
Moose are much taller and look more like horses. The elk are more deer-like.
My favorite cabins in Yellowstone are Mammoth Hot Springs. Great area of the park and the female elk and calves are there all summer in the evening.
Agree stayed 9/2022 immaculate and cool elk watching great restaurant
Your experience with the "lodge" is exactly why we RV . I know everything is clean and who slept in the bed last night!
Yep,they were elk. And actually Chad was correct (sorry Tara) a Bison is just the technical name for a Buffalo. Yellowstone Park is where it was first attempted to increase the Buffalo Herds after they were nearly brought to extinction in the late 1800. It was a good choice of places to try this, as the geothermal activity helped to keep the growing Buffalo herds alive during the harsh winters of the area.
Same, same, same!! I used to read reviews until I was blue in the face!! I would google for bed bugs in certain hotels, and pay 💰 way more money to try and avoid bed bugs, which, thankfully, DID WORK! However, it also cost us 10 thousand dollars for our last 10 day vacation!! That was it, we bought an RV!! And best yet, I never have to worry about taking our dogs in elevators and stressing them out either anymore. This year isn’t going as planned, of course, because of the pandemic, but we’re looking forward to many more! God Bless!! 🙏🏼
Exactly. Why pay for accommodations when you can sleep in your own bed every night
Was it not possible to leave Daisy in the RV so you could enjoy the parks with the girls? Did I miss that part?
Teri Goodenough many RV parks do not allow you to leave your pets unaccompanied.
Isn’t there a kennel service around somewhere? I know it’s hard to part with Daisy. I have two dogs I travel with But sometimes it just makes more sense to put them in someone else’s care for a day. Less stress for the, AND you.
Had we known that the dog-friendly cabins were so bad, we would have found a place for her to stay. (Although I don't know that it would have been less stress for her 😜 Lol)
There is a KOA in West Yellowstone that will take up to 48 foot trailer's and RV's and it is 6 miles from the west gate into the park. staying there they will give you 3 day park pass with the price of the camp site. FYI next time
FYI the photos of “moose” are actually elk I believe? Anyone else?
The app is a GREAT tip. Thanks!
Yes, they are elk. Not moose.
I came down here at the point where they were heading to Old Faithful to mention the same thing & see if others did as well. Indeed, Elk. Moose are darker, larger with lanky legs. ;-) And Artist Pass is a perfect spot show casing the bedrock stone from which "Yellow" stone gets it's name.
Elk!
Yes Elk. Rocky Mountain Elk.
Those looked like cow elk.
The National Parks app is great. After downloading it you can open maps prior to getting to the park, so that you can view them off-line.
Great video. This is why I prefer a truck camper. Easy to drive and park almost anywhere and always have a place to sleep comfortably and clean. Yeah its smaller but I consider myself an Overlander.
Isnt it safer to go on a camper van rather to be able to start the engine and escape from a dangerous situation?
One of the best videos I've seen of Yellowstone! Thanks for the heads up on Lake Lodge.
Thanks for sharing Yellowstone, I went there in 2002 with my dad, called my mom to tell her we were there and she watched Old Faithful on the fed they have erupt as we did ! How cool, she was in Maine while we enjoyed the evening experience as well.
8:57 - Those Bison are huge when face to face - Recall one cresting a trail we were on in Montana, (near West Yellowstone park), it turned us around. We did not expect that massive locomotive, (looking), sizing us up for a possible snack.
Every year we go to Yellowstone and Grand Teton but...... we go in late January and leave the rv behind. You can only enter through the north entrance for Yellowstone that time of year but it’s amazingly beautiful. You can still camp in both places but won’t have running water. The visitor center parking in Teton has a single warmed bathroom though and it’s just across the road from the camp site. You do have to drive up and around the east side to get to Yellowstone and it’s a heck of a beautiful drive. We see bison, wolves, elk, deer, occasional bear and some of the most amazing winter scenery this nation has to offer. Sorry y’all had a bad experience but it still made for family memories!
Awesome video...for the sites. My dad would spend two weeks out there every year fishing. What a great day to have two Yellowstone videos dropped on the same day. You and Traveling Robert.
Gros Ventre Campground is a nice place to stay, near the Jackson Hold Airport. And moose hang out here. They walk right thru the campsites, liking to hang out along the river’s bank. Madison Campground, close to the west entrance of Yellowstone is a great campground as well. During fall the bull elk are along the banks of the river, bugling ! Such a beautiful, yet eerie sound I. The middle of the night.
@@Hole, not Hold!!!! Darn spell check! 😜
We checked out Gros Ventre in our Teton video.. Looked like a cool campground.
I love you guys! I appreciate you showing us where to never stay when going to Yellowstone! They should be shut down, that is disgusting, and there is no reason to not have clean rooms, ever!
Unfortunately bed bugs are a very common issue in a lot of hotels, etc. Even the nicest places can get them and they are very difficult to get rid of. Always check the corners of the mattresses themselves, always check the corners of the room and in the cracks of furniture BEFORE you unzip your luggage. The lodge should have compensated them for any issues though.
Dogs have a sixth sense. Daisy knew that cabin was nasty and she was trying to tell you it is not fit for a dog!
Exactly! Always listen to your dog! There were spirits or even cameras! Nasty! You should have left the first night!
When we were last at Yellowstone, we saw the beehive geyser go off. It was the first time it has gone off in 8 yrs. We just happened to be walking past it. That is what is cool about all the geysers along the walk, is seeing one that hasn't gone off in yrs. What a treat it is.
I went to Yellowstone with my wife and three daughters several years ago, and like you we stayed at the same place you did, except it was one of the buildings with 4 units in what I would say is the size of one cabin, but arranged in a square instead of a mini hotel like the one you stayed in. It was grubby and way to small, and after one night I called the 800 reservation line and told them the cabin was unacceptable. The woman on the phone said they had no rooms in the park left, with the exception on what she called a "dormer room" at the main lodge right next to Old Faithful, the one you showed in your video. She said no one wanted these rooms because there was no in-room bathroom, you had to go down the hall. These rooms are right over the main entrance to the lodge, and are in my opinion the best rooms in the lodge. You overlook the Grand Room, fireplace, etc, and the rooms are huge. Our room had three large beds with quilts on them, a sink, and great decorations. It looked like your grandmothers house, so comfy, and not like a hotel room at all. And right out the window are views of the geyser basin. You probably saw these rooms when you were in the lodge. There are areas in the front that face the giant fireplace that have gaming and reading tables. It was soooooo much better than that tiny grubby little quarter cabin. The price of the cabin back then was like $160, the price of the bigger dormer room was $80.00. We stayed there for the rest of our stay. Those dormer rooms are the hidden gems of the YNP, if you can handle walking down the hall to a common bathroom and shower area. I have recommended those rooms to anyone who tells me they are going to Yellowstone, and those who used them were not disappointed. One last thing, the room was exceptionally clean.
We stayed at lake lodge about 10 years ago. Same decor but cleaner sheets. My son did open the door one morning to find a bison standing directly outside the door. Although not the nicest accommodations, you certainly get to be close to wildlife there.
To see both parks we always stay in Gros Ventre CG in Moose, WY. You have a great view of the Tetons and moose and wildlife walk thru the CG. It is only 35-40 min maybe to the South Entrance of Yellowstone. Next time you go stay there, it won't disappoint.
We checked that out and showed it in our Tetons video... 👍🏼 Very nice campground.
In 1965 my parents rented a pop-up tent trailer. We drove in an a 1964 Ford Galaxy with no A/C from Independence MO. To Yellowstone to camp for a week, BTW I was 5 years old. I had a wonderful time and my Father captured every moment of his new Kodak Super 8 video camera. For us kids it was a great time. My Mother stated clearly that this would be the last camping trip that didn't have Hilton on the front of the camp. Thanks for showing and sharing pictures I remember from my childhood!
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In the age of the Internet, there is no reason to ever have a bad National Park experience as long as you look things up before you go. For answers to specific questions, look up a park online, email them, and pay attention to what the National Park Service people tell you. And just to make sure you don't end up looking totally Orange (Orange is the new Green), look up the word Touron and memorize the description, and never, I repeat **never** stop your RV in the middle of a busy road to take a picture of anything.
This Cabin experience is why we love to stay in our RV and sleep in our own bed. I will be sure to plan ahead!!
I just watched a video of when you you went Yellowstone. Nice video. Glad you brought Daisy. Hope your daughters had a great time. And hope you had a great time with them. Sad your lodge that it was not clean. I don’t blame you to tell the lodge managers that the sheets were not clean. The outtakes were funny as usual. Hope you enjoyed your holiday. Hope your have A Happy New Year! See you both soon and Daisy too. Stay safe. Safe travels.
Next time you go to Yellowstone, you need to look in to a RV park in West Yellowstone. It is a lot easier to get in to the park and when you go in to the park at that entrance you are in the middle of the park. You can go north, or south, or across the park to the east side in just about an hour. That is where I stay when I go to the park.
The shingling was film in Estes Park Colorado. The hotel is still used today.
We went to Yellowstone in 2009 after we bought our Class A, and stayed at Fishing Bridge (I think the biggest rig they can hold is 35 feet). I laughed when you were commenting about seeing wildlife... After a long haul from Spokane, we came into the park via the north entrance with the setting sun. As we negotiated the pitch-black, narrow, winding roadway along the river to the campground, we saw a bush in the middle of the road. That moved. And blinked!
At the same time as my foot stomped on the brake, my wife and daughter yelled, "BUFFALO!!!!!" Luckily, the tow gear and BrakeMaster in our towed Jeep worked as advertised, and we stopped with plenty of room as a herd of the beasts lumbered past us, heading up the roadway. We watched them fade into the darkness, and as their haunches faded from the strobing of our hazard flashers, we all let out a sigh and had a good laugh at the look on our dogs faces. Both our German Shepherd had never seen anything like those beasts, and they weren't certain what to make of the whole event!
It is a beautiful place to visit, and GTNP is just as majestic. If you can possibly go there, you have to see it. It really is worth every minute of the trip.
FYI, you weren't kidding about staying on the marked paths! While it's NOT magma that you could fall into (that could happen in Volcanoes National Park on Hawaiis Big Island, however....). In YNP it is the hydro-thermal features (heated by the magma deep underground) that can literally kill you and boil your corpse into nothingness. (Search for the news articles on 'Yellowstone hiker boiled away'). (Also, as noted below, those were elk in your video, not moose.) Glad you all had a great trip, and thanks for the laughs at the end!
We're from the UK and we did Yellowstone in a Cruise America RV - fantastic holiday! Previously we visited Death Valley and had a cabin - that was gross... used coffee still in the filter; open bag of crisps [chips] on the floor under the bedside cabinet; air con unit held in by Duck Tape! But the bed was clean and so were the sheets, thankfully! RV the way to go - although some of the side roads in Yellowstone were not accessible in the RV :-(
Free chips???? Lucky you! 😂🤣
The Shining was filmed at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, Oregon. Well worth the visit...
Last year the wife and i went to yellowstone. All the campsites with facilities were taken. We were told about a primitive campsite that had no reservations. We found a site, in the Tetons, at the base of a mountain, for next to nothing. Idk if i could get my 31mb back there but others had horse trailers and other smaller trailers back there. But so much to see out there for sure
Sorry for your bad experience to a wonderful park(s). Kudos to my wife. She booked us into Colter Bay Village RV park between YNP and GTNP. We thought it a perfect place to be and spent 5 days there. 2 days at YNP and 1 at GTNP. Another day in Jackson.
I've spent hundreds of hours at Yellowstone. I always go the last two weeks of September and always leave by October 3rd no later, the snow comes. I love the Kelly Inn in West Yellowstone, Montana. Best entrance into the Park by far. One thing is, if you want to see moose you don't see them in Yellowstone. Go to the Grand Tetons for them.
We are traveling from CO to WA in mid-September and would like to go through Yellowstone! Any recommendations of where to stay with our 26ft travel trailer? Any must see sights? Can we drive through the entire park?
Thank you!
You should definitely let the Park Service know about the cabin--they hire the concierge service that manages the cabins and they would definitely want to know. I realize I'm only seeing this three years later but I still think it's important for the Park to know what may still be going on if no one has said anything. (And the moose you saw on the road at least were elk--moose have a distinctively big nose, more like a horse than a deer). My husband is retired National Forest Service, and the comment about letting the Park know comes from him. Some concierge companies are good and some aren't, and the Park won't know the difference unless they're told. So for sure keep up the good work--we love your videos, and are catching up on past ones while we wait for the latest--you guys rock!!
Sorry you had such a bad experience. As you’ve learned (as did I), you have to plan waaaaaay ahead to get a site for a large rig. We booked a site at Fishing Bridge on opening day (40’ Class A towing a car) and loved the location within the park. For Tetons we stayed at Coulter Bay RV Park - again, booked waaaaay early but it was so awesome!! We now have a Class B so hope to go back and check out the smaller, more primitive campgrounds. Love the entire area. Thanks for sharing your video - brought back some great memories.
Your videos are full of humorous clips & practical tips, fly-in maps, where NOT to stay & why (visual evidence), well-paired music, cool scenery... and yes, Daisy!
I’m so glad I saw what you went thru with your lodging. We planned on staying in the park. Well count that out. You couldn’t I guess get into to main lodge? A park you have to see is here in Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s just outside Estes Park.
We stayed in 2 or 3 of the lodges(actually had rooms in the lodge itself, not cabins) and were very pleased. We were very happy with our stay in the park. I had friends stay in the cabins on their trip and they had nothing bad to say.
You can't rely on one person's experience. Normally the lodging is very well taken care of. Something fell through the cracks. They have inspectors that inspect all rooms before they are released, so I have to wonder what happened. Your best places to stay is Lake Hotel, Old Faithful Inn, the remodeled rooms at Mammoth, or the new Canyon Lodges.
I was originally born in Wyoming...
Upon returning to Wyoming and looking at Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons National Park we came to the conclusion you're either one or the other kind of person we're definitely Grand Teton people.
This scene is hilarious! 13:57 “This one. This little ... Turd dog”. The look on the little dog’s face is priceless. 😂
We have about 100 names for her! LOL
Old faithful in is incredible! Best experience ever! We frequent the park. Way before RVing. Dinner and piano and peoples watching...
I have worked in yellowstone the last two summer, the canyon location only had 1 bed bug incident. Thankfully the room attendant was one of good ones and caught it, my advice if you plan to stay in the park again the newer the location the better. FYI employees call old faithful, old filthy.
The colorful springs there are actually living bacteria. "The hot spring has bright bands of orange, yellow, and green ring the deep blue waters in the spring. The multicolored layers get their hues from different species of thermophile (heat-loving) bacteria living in the progressively cooler water around the spring."
you can spend a week in Yellowstone and not get bored of the sights.
My family goes about every other year. We have done many long hikes in Yellowstone. We usually go for about 12-14 days!
You could spend all summer there and not see everything, specially if you explore the Grand Tetons. It's an awesome area. And remember folks, you heard it first from Charlie!
I was there when I was ~9 y/o...~40 years ago. I don't remember much of it but would like to see it again. One of the things I remember was staying in a small motel room watching Prince Charles and Princess Di getting married from a B&W TV
Enjoyed Yellowstone National Park in a 16 ft Aljo camping trailer with my sister and parents on several occasions in the mid-1950's... So glad we missed you!...
We went to Yellowstone a few years back on our 20th anniversary. We only tent camped a few nights, and stayed in a different lodge each night for the rest of the week. Great way to see various areas of the park! Fortunately, we did not have your experience of things being dirty or stained. We also did not stay in the cabins you did. However, the cabins up in Roosevelt lodge area were charming. Glad we got a house sitter for our dogs, though! Thanks for sharing your journey. It brought back a lot of great memories! We also went to the Grand Tetons beforehand like you guys too. :)
enjoyed your video, took me back to my trip there in 2004. I have one picture from one of those “wildlife traffic jams” where I was looking the opposite direction, then turned around to find a bison “sneaking” up on me. One of my friends snapped the picture. I about needed to change my shorts!!! Great memories!!!
Why didn't you guys just drive up to Yellowstone in the RV and camp there a few days? Isn't that the whole idea of having an RV? Mobility? Several of Yellowstone's campgrounds are first come first served.....Norris, Mammoth, Tower, Slough Creek, Pepple Creek. Most days if you are there early you can get a sight. Of course there are no hookups, but with that rig you don't need hookups for a few days.
We explain our planning mistakes and why we can't stay in the park a bit here: ruclips.net/video/xT2qU-OgQ20/видео.html
A Very good time to go too Yellowstone is February 1989. We Stayed in West Yellowstone, after walking into the Cabin we rented for three days and turning around and leaving. We walked the block back to our Van and left. then the next day we took a SNO Coach in, they dropped us off and we Skied into Old Faithful. Past the resting Elk who stayed resting. as we skied by and stopped to take pictures. This why we now RV to these places and only Hotel if we have to.
This is EXACTLY why I LOVE my RV
As a person who grew up in that area, buffalo is the correct term, just not the PC one. The falls are my favorite area, especially in the winter. The Lower Falls becomes a massive ice formation, with the spray from the river. Very impressive!
Last trip with my Grandparents was to Yellowstone! Stayed at Yellowstone Inn and it was awesome. I was 16 though and had no cell phone signal and didn’t appreciate the trip like I should have. I’ll be bringing my kids there when they are a little older. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!
I feel your pain on hotel filth. My wife and I have moved from room to room before and even went to different motels as well.
In our RV at least our dirt is our dirt and our bathrooms are clean! Our sheets are clean and we know that our black lab 'Oreo' sheds on her blanket while sleeping on the bed.
We did Yellowstone in 1977 and it doesn't seem to have changed much, still crowded.
YA! Good report on cabin! Nobody wants to sleep in neglectful management locations.
Hi there,
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Ahhh, thanks so much for your kind words and THANK YOU for being a nurse! 👏💝
I stayed in Gardiner MT as my basecamp when motorcycle touring off my Ninja. It was a perfect location allowing me to go into the Grand Tetons to the South for a day and all through Yellowstone for a few days.
Thanks for sharing mistakes. Not enough people do that. Great video!
We stayed, I think, at the Best western in West Yellowstone. It was awesome. We toured Yellowstone for three days straight. Trip of a lifetime
I have lived and worked in the park. My job was Sr. Guest Service at Mammoth and in reservations. I want to add that if your room was that dirty, I hope you went to the front desk and talked to management,. Xanterra has a very strict way that cabins and rooms are cleaned. If there are bed bugs. If there is bedbugs and you reported them, they would check and close the whole cabin off. They have to fumigate. The cabins were part of the Mission 66 . They are slowly remodeling and fixing things in the park. They just finished a 25 million dollar much needed remodel on Mammoths Hotel,
As to camping. Yes reservations should be made in advance for camp grounds through Yellowstone Reservations. Those 5 campgrounds allow for Generators till 8 pm. They don't have hook ups, Fishing Bridge is the only locations that has full hook ups and larger pull through. Last year it was closed due to Fishing Bridge Construction and is closed again this year due to construction. The hotels and lodges are expensive because of the remodels that the National Park Service wanted and the buildings and cabins needed.
If you want to camp, and have a camper or motorhome that is under 30 feet check out the campgrounds that are first come first serve. They have great sights at Indian Creek and it is close to Mammoth, and you can travel to Norris Geyser Basin from there. If you want Lamar Valley, Pelican fills up fast because it is close to the Lamar Wolf packs.
Over all if you have a sanitary issue talk to the front desk. What happened to you is a rare thing.
We rode through the park twice. We did have lunch at the lodge and at some park run restaurant along the way. We stayed in Cody. It was way nicer than the park accomodations. What I found was alot of eastern European college age kids working for the summer there. We had the full wildlife compliment while we were there. Bear, elk, buffalo, giant birds, we even watched a couple otters playing in a pond and I swear, they were entertaining us intentionally. They played then they'd stop. We clapped and they started playing again. My Mrs would have had some corprate investor in Yellowstone on the phone and having that place comped to us after that experience.
Stayed at Lake Hotel, about 10 Years ago. Glad we did it, but it was VERY pricey and the room was tiny. But we had a great view of the lake and I particularly enjoyed not seeing any cell phones except for photos. There’s was no cell service and people were forced to engage in there surroundings. Our room was clean and there was a nice laid back feel to it. Probably wouldn’t do it again though.
The outtakes are the best part.... Old Faithful Lodge had a room when we were there, 1 room....if I remember correctly it was $750 a night. I literally snorted and possibly tooted at the same time when she told me. It was beautiful though.
My family spent two weeks camping in a tent near what used to be called Fishing Bridge.
I think that is where the Yellowstone river exits the lake. there were strict rules in place back then too, but many people ignored the rules, taking pictures of their children sitting on WILD Black bears, and kids chasing Bear through campgrounds. It was crazy some of the days. But we have great memories of the place. BTW no doubt, others have commented, but those were not moose at 14:54 they are Elk As were the animals out on the island. Beautiful nonetheless! :-).
I noticed the mistaken identity too, although there are moose in the park.
stayed at yellowstone lodge last year. small but very clean and wonderful , a little more expensive but a wonderful experience
Oh this is just the information I was looking for currently planning our first trip to GTNP & YSNP . Due to COVID our reservation at the OLD FAITHFUL INN , CANYON LODGE & MAMMOTH HOTEL may be cancelled. So I nabbed a few cabins that are supposed to stay open at Lake & Canyon. I wasn't sure about Lake Lodge as it kinda looked as you've described so I'm hoping that Canyon will be better. I'm like you creepy about germs in hotels let alone cabins. I usually bring my own bedding on vacation. YIKES ! There is no way I'm keeping the Lake Lodge Reservations after seeing this. Thank you, thank you , thank you. !
We took our trailer there in June of 2017. It was a little early, and the mosquitos were unbelievable! We stayed at Fishing Bridge and it's kind of swampy if there has been a lot of rain. Nice place otherwise. Mosquitos were not an issue anywhere else. I'm sure Fishing Bridge is fine once it dries up.
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We were fortunate enough to get to stay at old faithful lodge on the spur of the moment due to a snow storm in June! It was a once in a lifetime experience!
I spent 2 nights in Cody and used that as a base camp for yellowstone. I got a chance to swim in the reservoir there with the locals.
West Yellowstone is very convenient with good RV parks. Liked Rustic Wagon campground. Very clean
Holy moly that cabin was horrible!! Glad you were still able to see things even if it didn't go to plan. Daisy trying to look around Chad's arm was hilarious!!
I camp there every other year and stay in the park. Reservations are always a plus. The best way to see the grand prismatic is going to the overlook on the way to Fairy Falls to get a view from above. Most spectacular. BTW - The cabins looked nasty. Thanks for showing us the inside, they do not look appealing.
Depending on cell service, you could FaceTime each other, the ones who are waiting with Daisy would be able to see what the ones hiking/ viewing are seeing and hearing what their comments are. We have done this sort of thing for my father-in-law for our son’s wedding, it would have been too much for him to be there physically but with FaceTime he was able to be “there”.
In 2018 we stayed in West Yellowstone at the Grizzly RV Park good camp ground for big rig sense we are a 42 footer 5th wheel and easy access to the west side of the Park. We were there in March and some of the roads are not open yet so timing is everything if you go that early the bears are just coming out of hibernation although Elk and Bison are moving around all over the place. Be Safe and Thanks for the Shows
We did Yellowstone as a family several yeas ago. We stayed at a nice hotel in Big Sky Montana...but, looooooots of driving through the park. It was actually a bit exhausting. But, we wanted to see all the things!
You should have gone to Firehole Falls swimming hole. One of our best experience while visiting YSNP, and is off the beaten path. It is only a ways up from the old faithful area.
We had 3 nights at Jackson Hole, then 1 night at West Yellowstone , 1 night at Gardiner Montana and 1 night at Cody, Wy. Saw everything.
We went to Yellowstone in 2012. We stayed at KOA west of the west entrance of Yellowstone. Had a great time. We took our dog everywhere we went no issues.
Chad, Tara, thank you so much for showing me this so I don’t end up spending 3 bills a night to stay in filth. Sorry you guys had to deal that that. Love the videos!!
Oh my how sad for you to go through that. And I get it about other people's funk. Just ew
Love your videos. Live in Alaska and those were Elk in Yellowstone. We have large moose up here. See them all the time.
Can't wait to get up there someday! 👍🏼
For many years we drove from Fla. To ride motorcycle in North Carolina. The guidelines were drive 1 day up ride 2 days. Then drive 1 day home. Activity 2 times as much as travel . equates to much more fun.
Enjoy your videos YOU GUYS ARE REAL
We spent a week at West Yellowstone Grizzly RV park just a mile from the West entrance of Yellowstone. I'd suggest trying that. Also I
believe those may be antelope in the road instead of moose.
I've stayed at the Lake Lodge during the last week of August almost every Summer for the last fifteen years. I have never had a single bad or unclean stay. The trailhead for my favorite hike (Elephant Back) is right behind the cabins, and the porch on the Lodge is my favorite morning coffee spot of all time (although, the porch is currently under maintenance - half section at a time). I have also stayed at every other spot inside the park, and my standard advice is ANY place inside the park is better than EVERY place outside the park. Yellowstone is huge if you are outside the park's borders you will spend most of your time driving; that's not my idea of visiting Yellowstone.
My experience at Yellowstone was that they brought in European college students on work-stay programs. I don’t care where you’re from, college students aren’t always the most reliable, especially when left unsupervised. I left and stayed in a motel just outside the park. It was much cleaner and the staff was very friendly.
Jessica, I was about to say the very same thing - that those "moose" are cow elk. (They even hand you flashcards at each gate). Also, you look at how cool the lodge at Old Faithful is, and it absolutely is! But out of curiosity once I walked up among the rooms while doors were open for cleaning. They are very primitive and mostly single beds, and some share bathrooms, although each room has it's own sink. And they are more expensive than Lake Hotel. If you want to complain about ANY concession or lodging there, you need to contact Xanterra, who has had the contract for MANY years. I live very nearby. Also, you could have found pet-friendly lodge-type lodging within minutes outside West Yellowstone entrance, North entrance in Gardner, or northeast entrance in Silvergate or Cooke City.
When Fishing Bridge RV opens it is OK but I'll tell you a few years ago it had very tight spaces and narrow lanes. Beautiful area though. We have never stayed in any of the hotel or lodge accommodations - only tent and RV camping. We last had a 30' 5th Wheel when we were there at Fishing Bridge RV. By the way, had a herd of Bison trot though the Fishing Bridge RV campground at the edge last street one of the nights we were there.
Yellowstone is especially beautiful in winter. We live an hour away and love it with snow ❄️....is amazing .
We love your channel and enjoy watching. We were thoroughly entertained by your “herd of moose”. Thank for the what not to dos as well. We travel to Yellowstone once a year. Our favourite place to stay near the park is West Yellowstone at the KOA. Thanks for sharing!
We have Bison in Texas near Caprock and Turkey, TX and yes Turkey TX is a place.
Having watched Yellowstone come back from the 1988 fires the trees never cease to amaze me. From miles and miles of burnt up pine to a beautiful carpet of green. What an amazing place! Nice video!
somebody beat me to it, your moose herd were elk and I may add elk is mighty tasty, on our Yellowstone trip this past year we stayed at the KOA in West Yellowstone and drove to the park daily. We had a good trip and it was okay. My personal experience since I grew up outside of Yellowstone, is to visit after Labor Day, as the crowd are really thinned down due to kids in school etc. PS let me know if you want some elk meat, I have it in my freezer and willing to share!
thanks for taking me along via ,youtube ,loved it
We had decided that we would like to take a cabin around the the Old Faithful Lodge area and made a reservation almost a year in advance. At check in time, we went to check it out and quickly decided to forego cabin stay. They had a long waiting line for any available cabin so they did not penalize us for reneging on the reservation. The town of West Yellowstone had a small campground with campsites available so we stayed there, and were glad we did. The west National Park entrance is really close to Old Faithful and to the town of West Yellowstone. We were really glad for the choices we made. We started out at a campground at the edge of Jackson Hole and used that for touring the Tetons and then used our site in West Yellowstone for Yellowstone National park. That was a great trip!!!
May I ask how long of a drive it was for you from West Yellowstone to inside the park ? Still debating if we should cancel our inner park reservations.
As we are supposed to head here this summer, originally we were going to camp at one place and try to do both Yellowstone and Tetons, but we changed our minds and are staying near Yellowstone, and then traveling to another campground near Tetons. Glad we did after your video.
meany years ago I was transferred from NV to MT and I had to go through yellowstone to get their. now I am pulling my 5th wheel trailer since I live full time in there because work transfers me quite a bit back then. no I am going through off season (winter) and the park is closed but the road is open. now I do run at night a lot never bothered me. So it is like 1 in the morning and I had made a wrong turn and ended up in the appt. section for the employees but like I said it was shut down, but as I looked for a place to turn around there were 2 bull elk at the swing set area for children. They were fighting and I just had to watch as it looked like they were fighting over the swing set. lots of fun. If you are still in the area go to the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum and plan on at least 1 day if not 2 to see it all. the Remington art museum wing is well worth it. as always enjoy stay safe sorry you had bed bug problems.
LOL! Two elk fighting over who gets to ride and who pushes! Thanks for the tip!
Thank you for sharing your experience honestly. Planning on a trip to Yellowstone later this year and so appreciated your story. Loved the scenery shots!
Me and my son fished Yellowstone lake about 20yrs ago. The trout are very plentiful, and catch and release is encouraged.
You can stay at Yellowstone Lodge, last minute: Just talk to the front desk and wait in the lobby for a cancellation. There are so many rooms that there are daily cancellations. If you hang around and work with the front desk, it’s likely that you can get a room.
Great tip! Wish we'd known that back then.. 😳
Hate to tell you this, but the first time I visited Old Faithful Lodge years back, on my motorcycle no less, upon entering the parking lot there was a Moose. (not an Elk) ambling through the parking lot with a park ranger more or less herding him along and keeping visitors at a distance. Great place, and I certainly enjoyed your video. I'm sure you probably considered this option but Cody, WY might have been a closer option both for lodging and RV. They have multiple RV Parks and Camp Grounds, as well as hotels, motels and bed and breakfast places to stay. It is also a great little historic town, lots of fun to visit there.
Yes those are cow (female) elk Bulls will be typically in solitude setting. Moose are fairly solitude animals and will not be found in a herd.
Most park entrances close at 8:00, so only lodgers and campers are in the park past 7:00