YNP

We spent a last day on a short drive over to West Yellowstone and the area outside the park. We cut the trip short as we are so tired of driving. It's too big. Since we pulled into Moran Junction over a week ago, we've driven about 2500 miles, from the south end of the Tetons to the top of the Beartooth Highway near Red Lodge, Mt. The lay out of the roads past the many beautiful viewing sites has been great. It's like a huge example of Central Park or the Biltmore Estate. New delights await the eye around every curve. They have mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, water falls, canyons, cascades, buttes, bluffs and then throw in a whole bunch of thermal displays, springs, fountains and geysors. Yesterday we did get out and walk the boards at Mammoth Springs. Another absolutely beautiful scene. As Dana mentioned, it leads to scensory overload. And of course the time of day means so much as the lower sun angles bring out colors that look artificial and shadows that change by the minute.
It would have been better to see the whole place in the Fall, but that wasn't an option with our plans. In the Tetons we had a few instances where we thought we had the place to ourselves, but that doesn't happen in Yellowstone in July. Hopefully Glasier National Park isn't quite as popular.