We spent two weeks in Yellowstone National Park (staying at the Fishing Bridge RV Park), going out and exploring the park pretty much every day. So I’m going to post about each area of the park for the next week or so, moving clockwise around the park, rather than following our activities in chronological order. That should make these posts a useful resource for people planning to visit the park, but only have time for one or two areas.

Here’s a map of Yellowstone (click to go to the interactive maps on the NPS site):

A PDF edition (best viewed in light mode; there’s a toggle in the upper-right corner of the web page):

Since we were staying at Fishing Bridge, let’s start with the Yellowstone Lake area. Here’s a map of that area:

On our first day we stopped by the nearby Fishing Bridge Visitor Center, one of the smaller visitor centers:

The Fishing Bridge:

Yellowstone Lake:

We took a drive out east to Sylvan Lake:

Back to the Lake Butte overlook above Yellowstone Lake:

Lake cabins:

Lake lodge:

Lake Village General Store:

Lake Yellowstone Hotel:

A pelican on the lake:

Fishing Bridge General Store:

Fishing Bridge gas station:

A bison on a hill by the Fishing Bridge, and a couple of tourons — tourist morons, too close to the bison:

Bison strolling down the center of the road:

Tomorrow, we head south to West Thumb and Grant Village.