Road Trip To Yellowstone: September 20th & 21st 2013

Road Trip To Yellowstone Sept 20th & 21st 2013

On the road to Yellowstone
On the road to Yellowstone. Photo: Foodwanderer

The time was finally here after counting down for about 3 months, we were ready to take our Road Trip To Yellowstone! I thought the time would never come, and the countdown seemed like forever. We hurried up and loaded everything onto our super fly GMC Yukon and we hit the road on September 20th and prepared for the 16+ hours to get there!

GMC Yukon Rental
GMC Yukon Rental. Photo: Foodwanderer

You can’t have a road trip without snacks so we made occasional rest stops to pick up some munchies! Of course, we brought some snacks for the trips like a box of Rice Krispies, granola bars, trail mixes, and other goodies.

Chocolate Candy Crispy Treats
Chocolate Candy Crispy Treats. Photo: Foodwanderer

I was craving chocolates so my bf bought me this!

Montana Chocolate Sea Salt Chocolate Bar
Montana Chocolate Sea Salt Chocolate Bar. Photo: Foodwanderer
Bear poop and Moose Droppings
Bear poop and Moose Droppings. Photo: Foodwanderer

Don’t worry, they’re not really Bear poop and Moose Droppings. They’re just chocolate covered peanuts!

View of The Tetons at the Center of the pic
View of The Tetons at the Center of the pic. Photo: Foodwanderer

We drove through Nevada, little bit of Arizona, Utah, and Idaho, and along the way, we spotted the other side of The Grand Tetons from Idaho! I’ve never been to Idaho but it was an awesome feeling that I was in another state 🙂

Welcome to West Yellowstone Montana
Welcome to West Yellowstone Montana. Photo: Foodwanderer

We finally made it to West Yellowstone! We all worked up an appetite after driving through Nevada, Utah, and Idaho, so right when we entered West Yellowstone in Montana, we stopped by the Woodside Bakery we went to back in 2011. It sure did bring back a lot of great memories.

West Yellowstone Montana
West Yellowstone Montana. Photo: Foodwanderer

I wanted to post about Yellowstone because we were so lucky to have gone on the last week of September and not have to deal with the unfortunate Government closure of the parks. We had originally planned out trip for the 1st week of October and thankfully we didn’t. Not only was the closure a total unfortunate situation, but also a lot of the roads were closing as certain parts of the parks were snowing and some of many of the shops and visitors center was closing for the season.

Signs for civilization!
Signs for civilization! Photo: Foodwanderer

We finally made it to Yellowstone National Park!

We paid the park fee and we got our map of the Yellowstone National Park! We were prepared to bust out our Canon camera to take pictures of anything and everything because you just can’t take a bad pic!

Entrance to the park
Entrance to the park. Photo: Foodwanderer
Beautiful lake while driving throuh Yellowstone
Beautiful lake while driving through Yellowstone. Photo: Foodwanderer
Some greens on the mountains
Some greens on the mountains. Photo: Foodwanderer
Roads
Roads. Photo: Foodwanderer

Road to Gardiner Montana

We stayed in Gardiner Montana which is the North East entrance to the Yellowstone Park. We stayed here last year as well and because we loved it, we decided to stay here again, but at a different place.

Beautiful clouds shadowing the mountains
Beautiful clouds shadowing the mountains. Photo: Foodwanderer

Of course we had to get out of the car to stretch a bit and check out amazing looking areas to take pictures.

Elk Bones
Elk Bones. Photo: Foodwanderer
Beautiful field but it was already dry
Beautiful field but it was already dry. Photo: Foodwanderer
Amazing overview before entering Gardiner Montana
Amazing overview before entering Gardiner Montana. Photo: Foodwanderer
Amazing overview before entering Gardiner Montana
Amazing overview before entering Gardiner Montana. Photo: Foodwanderer

We made it to our cute cabin!

Entrance to the cabin
Entrance to the cabin. Photo: Foodwanderer
Welcome to the cabin :)
Welcome to the cabin :). Photo: Foodwanderer

We finally arrived to our cabin that our friend found. It was such a cute cabin and it even had the full kitchen with a fridge, microwave, dishwasher, coffee maker, pots & pans, a nice living room with a lot of books about Yellowstone, a washer & dryer, a BBQ grill, and the best part was the beautiful backyard where the Yellowstone river flows through!

Cabin Sink
Cabin Sink. Photo: Foodwanderer
Cabin livingroom
Cabin livingroom. Photo: Foodwanderer
Cabin's kitchen
Cabin’s kitchen. Photo: Foodwanderer
Our beautiful backyard
Our beautiful backyard. Photo: Foodwanderer

This post was mainly to share what it was like being on the road for 16+ hours and enjoying the scenic routes and share a little bit about the cabin we were at. We stopped for some grub along the way but that will be on a separate post as I like to focus on each restaurant with their own special post 🙂 I will also post the hiking trails separately too so I can focus on the main points and highlights of the trails. But I do hope you enjoyed these pictures.


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