Early May YNP Rambles

North of our Park location is the North Entrance or Mammoth Area.  We needed a nice lunch spot for my birthday so we found the Mammoth Hotel Dining Room. Nice!!!

Then we joined the photo mania on our journey east toward Roosevelt Lodge.  Here's a field of Bison.

And a bear looking for lunch!

Here's the Gibbon River Falls and the river meanders below it.

The Gibbon River and the Firehole River join just below our campground to make the Madison River that eventually flows into the Missouri River.  Here's the junction or 'confluence' as the Rangers say.

This is a late evening photo, our favorite time to walk along the Gibbon and gaze beyond it to the Firehole.  The evening we arrived a large herd of Bison surprised us as they grazed along the Gibbon welcoming us to our CG home.  The Madison River begins at the distant center of the photo.  Tomorrow the fishing season opens and the river banks will crowd with 'fly fishers'.  Change is constant.