🐃♨️ Best of Yellowstone National Park: What to See, Do, & Eat! | 51 Parks with the Newstates

welcome to the world's first National Park Yellowstone in this jam-packed episode we'll be taking you to places including Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone the wildlife patch Lamar Valley and of course legendary Old Faithful we'll be showing you our favorite spots plus can't miss dining like where you can get escargot in the park join us as we explore Yellowstone National Park welcome to 51 parks with the new news we're Howard and Caitlin and we're on a mission to visit all the U.S national parks in the lower 48 in our Winnebago RV each week we're sharing where to stay what to do and introducing you to the people doing incredible work across our national parks Yellowstone National Park covers an impressive 2.2 million Acres with sections of the park in three states the majority lies in Wyoming but Park boundaries cross into Montana and Idaho this National Park is massive and there is a lot to see and do here from incredible geothermal areas to Wildlife viewing to history waterfalls hiking eating even shopping so where do you begin and where can you stay Yellowstone has a total of five different entrance stations 12 campgrounds and nine different lodges that are a mix of cabins and hotel style rooms outside the park there are even more accommodations depending on where you're staying during this visit we entered the park from the south coming up through neighboring Grand Teton National Park we drove about 60 miles past a few bison traffic jams to the Canyon Village area of the park we chose this as our home base for our five-day visit because it's a relatively central location and we love Canyon Campground which we've stayed at before there are over 270 sites here for both RVs and Tents it is dry camping meaning no hookups but there is a dump station and fresh water fill plus laundry and free showers for campers in this area of the park you'll find a visitor center as well as several dining options ranging from grab and go to Quick Service and even a bar with fun drink options this is also the gateway to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone which we'll be covering shortly when you look at the park map you'll see that the main Park Road creates a figure eight with Norris Canyon Road as the connector here in the middle for today's episode we'll be starting here at Norris geyser Basin heading south to the Old Faithful area then back over to Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone from there we'll take you North to Yellowstone's Cowboy cookout and the wildlife of Lamar Valley next we'll head over to the northernmost point of the park Mammoth Hot Springs and then back south to Yellowstone Lake and some Waterfront geothermals alright let's go Norris geyser Basin is the hottest most acidic most dynamic and most studied geyser Basin here in the park it's also named after the Park's second superintendent we also learned that there are four types of geothermal features here you've got fumarals Hot Springs Mud pots and geysers and we're going to see them all this is definitely a popular area to get to see several of those features the parking lot fills up quickly in the summertime so if you can visit early or later in the day it's a much less crowded experience there are two basins here to explore back Basin which is more wooded and has spread out features along Pathways and boardwalks and Porcelain Basin where you can take a path down to a more open area we definitely recommend doing both loops this is Green Dragon spring and you can see all the steam coming off of it there's a little spur come down and you can peer into its sulfur lined cave it really is amazing to think about the early explorers to this area and you hear things about how they came through and they would return and tell Tales of an earth that was on fire and the ground was scorching and you know all of these like horror stories that nobody believed and it took years for expeditions to actually come out and see this land of Brimstone and fire as they called it and as you look out you can see all that and just imagining like coming through here without any roads not knowing where to step what was safe like it's mind-boggling foreign this is minute geyser and it used to erupt every minute about 40 to 60 feet in the air but unfortunately during the stagecoach days visitors who are waiting for their stage coaches would toss things like coins and other stuff in there and it clogged up the plumbing permanently damaging it so they don't know if it will ever shoot as high as it used to it's a sad reminder of bad guest Behavior [Music] we're making what I feel like is a pilgrimage up to Steamboat Steamboat is a very famous geyser for a very long time it was dormant and then it was reactivated again just a couple of years ago it started having an explosive and huge eruptions and then it started to go quiet again and so now researchers and scientists aren't so sure what the future of Steamboat is but if you're ever here during an eruption of Steamboat it is incredible and just over here this is Sister and spring and it was proven back in the 80s the sister in Spring and Steamboat are actually connected because every time there was an eruption of Steamboat cistern spring would drain this is old unpredictable according to the park service you can kind of see here the sign is not in the best shape and that's probably because when it erupts it spews minerals everywhere so as much as you're hoping to be here when it erupts you're also hoping that your car is parked far enough away there are signs in the parking lot warning you that if it erupts and it sprays its spray everywhere there's minerals in there that can damage or paint and windows and all of that kind of stuff this is also the tallest active Geyser in the world so it's definitely a special one the last eruption was about a month ago so who knows when it could go again old unpredictable please these are the porcelain Springs you can see it from the porcelain Basin Overlook and you can look out and see many little Springs erupting all at once and then the color is beautiful and that's because of silica which is the main component in glass and Norris Basin has the highest concentration of silica anywhere in the park what I love the mud ones I just think they're so cool foreign well it should come as no surprise if you've watched any of our other National Park episodes but we always recommend using an audio guide if there's one available for the park you're visiting our favorite guidalong has a fantastic one for Yellowstone and helped guide us in between major stops there are trusty audio guide told us that fire hole Canyon Road is a must do it's about I think two miles it's a one-way Road no RVs or trailers are allowed here so we're gonna go see what we can find I think there's even a waterfall well a very unexpected surprise here on the drive we just saw an active osprey nest they have a section of the road blocked off that might also be why the swimming area is closed I'm not really sure about that but yeah there's all these Osprey in a Nestle you can perfectly see it up in the top of the tree Caitlyn is it Osprey or Osprey Osprey Osprey Osprey Osprey tomato tomato you tell us all right we're about to head on the fairy Falls Trail which is not so secretly the overlooked Trail for grand prismatic spring which is the largest spring in Yellowstone and in North America and it's also one of the most colorful so along this Trail there's a couple bonus geothermal features there's one right here super close to the trail just make sure you stay far enough away so when you're on the trail it'll split make sure you stay to the left there is a pretty steep uphill then you come to a platform and that is where you get the best views of grand prismatic spring and the colors right now in the middle of the day are so vibrant grand prismatic is 330 feet across at its widest point and more than 120 feet deep the spring was named during the Hayden expedition of 1871 where it was described that not even human art could equal The Peculiar vividness and delicacy of color of these remarkable Prismatic Springs so where does all that amazing color come from bacteria in the water that thrives in the boiling hot temperatures that reach more than 180 degrees we made our way over to the Old Faithful area just in time to catch an eruption of the famous geyser unlike old unpredictable we showed you over in Nora geyser Basin as the name suggests Old Faithful is definitely much more predictable in fact there are plenty of signs throughout Old Faithful Inn to let you know the window of time for the next eruption Old Faithful is one of only six geysers that Rangers currently predict here in the park when it erupts Old Faithful can shoot between 100 and 180 feet into the air and the show lasts between one and a half to five minutes it's an amazing sight to see the centerpiece of this area of the park is the historic Old Faithful Inn what many consider the most famous building in the entire National Park Service the iconic structure was revolutionary for its time with its modern amenities blended with its rustic design and gigantic proportions it opened nearly 120 years ago with 140 Rooms Today there are 330 guest rooms A striking Lobby that Towers seven stories high a beautiful dining room quick service deli shopping and more the best way to learn about one of the most famous buildings within the park service is on a free History tour offered every day the lodge is open four times a day we had the pleasure of joining Ruth who has worked here at the Inn for 34 Summers and Ruth's knowledge of the building runs deep in fact she even wrote the book on its architect Robert Riemer welcome to the Old Faithful Ian I'd like to talk about this building as a place of connections I think the building connects us to other things and on the basic level it's connecting us to the Nash natural environment around us as you're looking around the lobby here you're looking at materials that were brought from within about five miles of where we're standing the foundation of the building under us was originally constructed of the same type of stone that's in the chimney this is volcanic raw called rhyolite These are rhyolite lava flows surrounding us here at Old Faithful and then the woods are constructing in this was cut about four miles south of us you're looking at lodge pole Pine in here and that's what you've been driving through out there in Yellowstone about 80 percent of our forests are this one species of tree lodgeable Pines grow straight and tall and when they reach maturity in Yellowstone the average about 75 feet tall you don't know what 75 feet tall looks like look up because this Lobby from the floor to the peak of the ceiling up there we measure 76 and a half feet our construction on this bill building started in June of 1903 and for the summer of 1903 men worked hard to get the roof on make sure they have the building enclosed before winter hit and we do think they accomplished that but the hotel company wanted it finished and open for the next summer so the men actually stayed here and continued working through the fall and winter months and the first guests were staying here by June of 1904. building went up in 13 months time in fact this building opened with indoor electricity indoor heat indoor plumbing for its time this was a first class hotel and this is the lighting as Robert reamer designed it we never had candles or gas burning in this building so like to stop here for a moment so you can look at our front doors they are original to the building one of the men on site during our construction was a blacksmith by trade his name was George Cole Pitts he was from Livingston Montana about 100 miles north of us came down here in January of 1904 set up a forge on location and was doing all of the iron work throughout the building that means the bedroom door numbers we'll see going down the hall heavy latches for all of our doors fireplace tools and irons and this Oddball device in the middle of the door looks like a stove coil but that actually functions as our doorbell we're going to go down the hall here and look at one of our bedrooms this is an active hotel room the guides get to show a different room every day depending on where somebody checks out early in the morning and this year for one or two people rents for 239 dollars plus taxes and fees we call it a room with a shared bath if you rent this room today you still walk down the hall for the bathrooms like they did when we opened from the days of guests arriving via train and Stagecoach to the prohibition era to more modern times the Old Faithful in historic tour is a fascinating Journey Through Time where you'll learn about the evolution of this incredible building and while you're here you must have a meal at the Old Faithful dining room the upscale Log Cabin feel is carried throughout and you'll find beautiful etched glass panels inspired by the original wooden murals that were in The Bear Pit the hotel's Lounge a few of the originals are still on display in another section of the hotel reservations are required for dinner which offers either a dinner buffet or you can order from their curated menu featuring a variety of locally inspired dishes cocktails wines and desserts we started with a charcuterie Board of local meats and fresh burrata for our main courses we had pork osobuco and Idaho red trout both were incredible and we couldn't pass on the Yellowstone themed dessert I had the Caldera a warm chocolate truffle tort with a molten middle and Howard had local Huckleberry ice cream this is just one of the delicious dining options throughout the park and you know we love to eat so we'll be showing you where else to enjoy a great meal here in Yellowstone okay are you ready for some more geothermal features Yellowstone is home to almost 60 percent of the world's geysers and here in the Old Faithful area the upper geyser Basin is home to the largest amount of them here in the park there's a boardwalk trail that allows us to safely explore the pools and geysers up close we're two for two on Riverside geyser this is one of our favorites from our first trip and we just got to see it erupt again there's all these people lined up the anticipation was great and then right at seven o'clock on the dots it erupted it was awesome wow according to the placard morning glory is traditionally a Blue Spring and right now it looks kind of orange and the reason why is because people keep throwing stuff into the spring which lowers the temperature which turns it from Blue and as the temperature drops it goes into kind of these oranges and greens because it throws off the bacteria right yeah because the bacteria is actually what causes the color it's not minerals I always thought it was minerals like you were looking at the mineral you know colors but no it's actually the bacteria that grows and so different bacteria grows at different temperatures oh Castle only erupts twice a day we're lucky enough to catch it at the end of the day so the lighting is beautiful and just so powerful to see how high it shoots up it does these little pauses where it kind of stops and then it comes back bigger than before and right now we're waiting for the steam to come and we're hoping that we get some rainbows it's a little tricky when it comes to the geysers because you almost have to commit to the ones you really want to see they're predictable but only within a certain window of time so you might end up spending like 90 minutes two hours waiting for your favorite one or one that you really hope to see and then you might miss out on others but that's okay because we just got to see castle for example that was awesome but we spent a lot of time waiting for that one so just kind of figure out which ones you're really hoping to see check the predictions and then commit and if you're wondering why you might not see all of the major boardwalks or major geysers well that's because due to the overcrowding of Yellowstone we are only permitted to film in geothermal areas during a early morning or right before Sunset window to avoid the crowds so like Caitlyn mentioned we're trying to pick one specific area each evening and hope fingers crossed that the geysers actually erupt another challenge are the pools because really the best time of the day to see the pools is kind of in the middle of the day when the sunlight is hitting straight down and it's Illuminating all those beautiful blues and greens and oranges we can't film in the middle of the day in the geothermal areas but from 2019 we actually have a decent amount of footage before we have the YouTube channel so look for footage that might look a little grainier and we'll try and put maybe 2019 up in the corner so you'll know but we do actually have some footage of those as well we've lucked out with another beautiful day here in Yellowstone and we are spending the morning exploring an area we've never been to before Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and we're starting off with one of our favorite things a ranger guided walk I hope you have a wonderful time here with me is everybody ready to go yeah all right let's go how did you bought a kind of glimpse of the canyon you can take a look and see and hear the power of this place there's a lower Falls of the Yellowstone is 308 feet tall that's three feet taller than the Statue of Liberty at the base of the canyon you can still see streaks of water slowing down the sides of that Canyon those are those hot springs what it did to the canyon and how it helped create it is that hot water came up and it basically cooked the rock that the canyon is composed of kind of like a baked potato you start out with a hard potato and then as it's steamed as it's baked it eventually Cooks to the point where it's soft and crumbly same things happening here at the canyon the rough used to be as hard as any rock as you had ever seen and then as it cooked it chemically altered to a clay-like material that's soft and crumbly which made it a lot easier to erode another great Ranger program in the books Ranger Stephanie was full of all kinds of interesting facts and fun analogies the baked potato one was my favorite we talked about so many things it's amazing that one Ranger can know so much and I love to we got to learn a little bit more just about how the national park was established where the name came from things that sure we could go online and probably read and find but it's so awesome to be out in nature and learning about everything that you are looking at or standing in right now there's a yellow Rock a yellow Sandstone the Native Americans name the river for that rock basically it means Yellowstone or yellow Rock they pass that on and to the French Trappers it became rosh Jean and then because of the Louisiana Purchase they wanted to change all those French names to Americanized names so they named it Yellowstone and that's where we got our name artist point is the furthest point that you can come to here on the south rim it is one of the most popular places here at Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone it's easy to see why it's absolutely breathtaking and it's also the spot of many famous paintings even from this distance you can still hear the Roar of the waterfall we're over on the north rim right now and there is an Overlook where you can get good views of the lower Falls or you can hike down to brink of the lower Falls but we're gonna go to Red Rock Point which Ranger Stephanie tells us you can get an even better View and get lower this is a pretty cool little Trail yeah look there's a little Bridge down there [Music] wow this is worth it I say that now before we have to climb all the way back up in my opinion Red Rock Point is the best place to come and see the lower Falls the views from here are just incredible it is quite a hike down and got to climb all those switchbacks and steps back up so we're getting ready to mentally prepare ourselves for that this is a great spot to come and spend some time that really didn't take us that long to get out it took us like 10-15 minutes it felt a lot longer going down let's definitely a workout I just learned something kind of cool did you know that based on the shape of the canyon you can tell whether it was carved by a glacier or by water so since this is a v it was carved by water if it was a U-shaped that would be a glacier going through it the more you know it so even though this wasn't carved by glacier we do have evidence elsewhere the Galatians were present I'm trying to save this tree oh look at this poor guy this is representative of the glacier this Boulder actually came from the Beartooth mountains hitched a ride on a glacier and ended up here in the middle of the forest wow 80 000 years ago how much do you think this thing was I'm not good with that lots of tons imagine that that ice could move something like this that far too bad they didn't have GoPros back then maybe epic time lapse huh I don't think I don't think you'd have enough footage to be able to actually get the time lapse on this I think this was a very slow and gradual process okay you guys know we love binding unique activities to do inside the parks and we love to eat so Howard found something that combines both of those things I'm very excited are you oh I'm super excited we are on our way to the old west cookout if you can guess by the name I think it's gonna be a lot of fun after getting our wagon assignments and a rundown of the evening we all loaded up on our wagons for a journey out into the valley the old west cookout is an immersive experience where you can enjoy dinner like the old Cowboys used to here in Yellowstone by trekking out to a secluded corner of Pleasant Valley arriving either by horseback or Stagecoach my name is Jake this is Aaron our driver tonight and this is dextron Dallas two big boys up front they're going to be doing most of the work tonight pulling us to and from cookout tonight our wagons gonna be going through Pleasant Valley now Pleasant Valley is kind of known as the bachelor pad for bison all the male bison right now are in the Rut over in Lamar Valley they're having a good time over there but those bison who do not end up you know finding the true love of their life and settling down and having a wife and family will end up in Pleasant Valley now in Pleasant Valley those bison they act a lot like teenage boys who didn't get invited to prom all right y'all know how those guys act right they're a little aggressive and territorial this is Silver Tip stage now Silver Tip Sage likes a very dry ground to grow in if you look into the valley there's no Sagebrush out there we like to say if you're running from something stick to the sagebrush we got to run from a bear or a bison make sure you stick to that Sagebrush if you run out there you'll go about knee-deep in mud also see these big patches of green grass in the sagebrush and if you look real close at some of those patches you might see an entrance into the hill now those entrances are into one big interconnected coyote din in the hill so we have a lot of coyotes in the valley they'll actually follow the wagons to try and snatch up some Whistle Pigs that are coming out of their holes once we finally get parked what I want you to do is wait for me type these horses I'm going to bring a ladder around you can uh get on off that ladder wait for me to help you off you're gonna go straight back and then around we made it to cookout and that was such a fun and beautiful ride out Jake was full of all kinds of jokes and just great information we're gonna go get some Cowboy Coffee that is on my list and wait for that dinner bell to ring now I only recommend about five cups if you want to stay awake for the next six days other than that keep it about two or three keep you wired all night all right it's good come up [Music] all right everybody enjoyed steak yeah everybody enjoy those good Roosevelt beans let's give it up for our Cooks tonight they did a great job hey have everybody ever heard of cowboy coffee before coming out here has anybody ever made Cowboy coffee before coming out here here's an old recipe tried and true the Chuck Wagon coffee The buckaroos Brew it's coffee and water and equalized parts let that sink in for a little bit coffee water and equalized parts throw it on a fire it's where it all starts you boil hard for two hours and into it you toss the well-rusted shoe from a club footed Hoss on top of our tripod right there y'all see that horseshoe that's our coffee tester you throw that in the pot stare into it for two minutes steady and if that horseshoe ain't floating your coffee ain't ready so I'll let y'all decide what part of that recipe we follow to the tea well that was so much fun that was was great I don't know whether I liked Hayden's jokes more or the food you know what a fun experience not everybody gets to go and ride horseback or right on the back of a wagon out to a cookout you know and be serenaded by a cowboy and sit around the campfire it was wonderful so much fun and they've been doing this since I think they said the 1950s so there's a lot of history here and it's just so cool that they're carrying on this tradition out here in the beautiful back country of Yellowstone until we meet again [Music] we go around the cooks are going to be sitting on a picnic table waiting for us to come by we have a little tradition we like to say thank you in an interesting way so we like to try to make up a little rhyme two one [Applause] yeah do they tip their hats all right good [Music] so we drove out to Lamar Valley which is renowned for its Wildlife sightings and sure enough it did not disappoint we got about five miles down the road and there are just hundreds of Bison everywhere and it is the rut right now you can hear the noises that they're making it's just incredible they're grunting and they're running and they're just very active oh they do not oh won't you see that one charge the other one oh my gosh it's just so cool to sit here and watch them uh they'll come and they'll cross the street and just look at the cars like they don't care they're obviously much bigger than all of us so this is their land they rule here and it's so cool to just be in their habitat and witness everything that is going on right now it's also a good reminder to stay in your vehicle do not get out and and try to get closer to them these are the largest land mammals in North America uh you're no match for that so stay in your car and just view from a distance foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] our next stop is in the north home to Fort Yellowstone and the Mammoth Hot Springs you'll find a visitor center here along with the beautiful Mammoth Hot Springs hotel and dining room it's easy to spend several hours exploring the history and geothermals found here when you're in the Mammoth Hot Springs area it's definitely worth it to take a stroll through the fort Yellowstone historic district and if it looks a little bit like Army Barracks that's because it was constructed by the Army for about a decade after the national park was established this area was under extreme threat from poachers and people doing illegal things in the hot springs so they constructed this as a base to be able to help protect the land today it's used as housing for Park staff they do have a printed guide so you can do a self-guided walking tour but sometimes they offer ranger-led programs throughout this area so you can learn a little bit more so make sure you check the schedule or pick up the little walking guide well Yellowstone is really wowing us with their food that dinner it was so flavorful and so tender it was incredible my pork chop was marinated overnight and then deliciously prepared that was chef's kiss and even down to the sides we got mushrooms and asparagus and they were super flavorful with like garlic and butter and salt it was also good and the trout dip was excellent too when you're looking at the menus if you see the little green leaves that means that it's either organic or sustainably sourced or locally sourced and in this case the dairy came from a farm in Montana for the trout dip and you were just raving about every single bite how I was like oh my gosh this is so good no complaints grab a meal here one year in Mammoth the travertine Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs are some of the most famous formations here in Yellowstone the intricate lower Terraces are created by Limestone there's a boardwalk trail that will take you pretty close to this amazing feature but don't miss out on the upper Terraces which have their own unique features and great views out over the entire Mammoth area we've turned onto the Upper Terrace Loop Drive as the name indicates it is a loop there are several stops along the way and the audio tour tells you all about them this is definitely one of our favorite sections of the park because you can see so many amazing features in one space and there's a great Boardwalk Trail take it all the way out to Canary spring and you'll start to see all of those vibrant Origins there's a couple of teals in there the steam is rising it's beautiful there's also a fully accessible trail that will take you out to Canary spring as you walk along the boardwalk you'll start to see all of these dead trees so they absorbed the calcium carbonate into their veins which hardened them and they can stand like this for decades you come back around seven o'clock at night you can practically have the place to yourself we just made another stop off of the loop trail this is orange Mound I bet you can guess how it got its name if you listen you can hear the spring welcome to Bay Bridge Marina which is on Lake Yellowstone and something that you might not think about when you visit Yellowstone National Park is getting out on the water we're getting ready to do a one hour Scenic cruise around the lake they also offer different types of fishing charters you can rent your own boat or you can get a Backcountry shuttle so if you want to get out on the water you can find it here welcome aboard Lake Queen 2 my name is Ken and I'm going to spend the next hour shooting the breeze with you guys that okay I like to give a couple quizzes along the way just a heads up kick up to speed here a little bit and head over to what we refer to as Lake Village so hang on here we go thank you everything I'm going to point out to you with one minor exception was put here prior to about 1930 the Park Service decided about that time that that was enough construction on the shoreline if you look very very carefully over at the left Shoreline you might get a glimpse of a yellow building that is the Lake Yellowstone Hotel it when it opened in 1891 though it was a very simple fronted building it was just the left one third of the building and then uh In 1902 they added the next section to the right so basically the whole left half existed about that time they added columns and Dormers does anybody recognize the name Robert Riemer Robert reamer Was An Architect that designed the Old Faithful Inn he's the guy they brought up here after they built the Old Faithful Inn and he added the next that third of the hotel and he put the columns and dormers on there gave it that beautiful Southern Colonial styling in the evenings you could go into the lobby area and I invite you all to visit that hotel and wander around in there there is a real nice dining room if you get reservations there's a sun room and that sun room has a pianos playing in the evening couches and chairs you can relax and have a drink from the bar right there and watch the lake queen go by there was a gentleman that worked at that hotel he was the first manager his name was Ella Collins Waters he had it's kind of a bad reputation over the years but he was quite the entrepreneur he got fired for manager of the hotel a couple times for getting in trouble because of his Shenanigans he had a bunch of robots people would rent them and come out of the lake those days people wanted to come out on the lake too you know and have a good time just like you guys are out here today and he made pretty good money at that he made good enough money that he actually went back to his home state of Wisconsin and he purchased this boat right here he brought cut it up in sections and brought it out here and used it as a ferry boat now he launched this boat in the summer of 1907. he came time to name it when he named it he uh had to make a decision daughter grandma wife mother he named this boat after the person that met very most to him any idea who that was himself E.C Waters uh we kind of think in the Mariners world that maybe it's by bad luck to name a boat after yourself brings bad luck by the end of 1907 come in October of 1907 he was asked to leave the park and he was never allowed to return yeah this boat existing here hadn't been approved for taking passengers yet he couldn't sell it and he actually anchored it in the leeward side of this island off to your right over there that's Stevenson Island that boat sat here at anchor basically I picture it pivoting around on an anchor for 14 years 1921 a storm came out of the Northeast pushed across this way picked that boat off it's anchored pushed that boat up on the shore where it sat for another 10 years the longer it sat on that Shoreline the more deteriorated it got well this picture this Photograph here was taken in 1926 and in 1926 the boiler in the Yellowstone Hotel gave out and they came out here and they stole the boiler from this ship they used it to heat the Lake hotel until 1972. well also during the 1920s this boat developed a nickname the Moonshine in employees from the lake hotel and Lake Lodge and probably the tour boat drivers you know guys like Richard here they they were they would come out here and have parties on here now not moonshine in what does that make you think about it might have been going on in 1920s prohibition alcohol was illegal would take a wild guess what might just might have been going on out here there might have been a still the Rangers during that time got tired of coming out here and cleaning up the messes and taking care of business it's the spring of 1930. two Rangers came out here on snowshoes and they hiked their way out here and lo and behold they reported that they saw both the lightning come out of a clear blue sky struck the EC Waters and burned it to the water line I kind of threw in the Clear Blue Sky part but if they hadn't been caught with a couple cans of kerosene they might have might have got away with that story and the EC Waters burned all the way to the water line and what's left of it 93 years later is right here on the shore you're seeing what's left of the EC Waters don't name a boat after yourself that's the kind of thing that can happen well that was really awesome Captain Ken Captain Richard thank you guys so much that was a really fast hour we went around Lake Yellowstone we learned everything from what's going on with the fish to the history of the buildings and a burned out boat that has a pretty storied past if you're short on time this is a really great option it's family friendly and you'll get a lot of information about the area and I would highly recommend it left an hour well I was I was saying to Caitlyn I was like this is kind of like a pretty average looking entrance to the hotel and it's because they all used to come by boat so the fancy side is the side that faces towards the lake the side that you drive up to is just a flat Building without any columns or anything of course we had to visit the famous Lake hotel for ourselves and try out their French inspired restaurant remember we promise to tell you where you can get escargot in the park right here the dining room inside Yellowstone Lake hotel it was another Stellar experience and a few standout dishes were the escargot scallops the halibut and the sticky toffee pudding for dessert five stars from the new States foreign geyser Basin is super unique and definitely worth a visit and that's because there are a bunch of geothermal features right here against the lake and that is super unique to find here in the park you can feel the heat that's coming off of the water that is coming out of the spring that's amazing yeah do you feel that it's just radiating up so this is fishing cone the story that we heard about why it's called this is because fishermen used to catch their fish and then immediately dunk it into this cone and cook the fish whole I don't buy it I do you do yeah yeah they said they don't allow it anymore because it was damaging the cone I don't know about that I would do it yeah but like what about all the like the minerals and the toxins and stuff that are in the yeah I guess a different time [Music] [Music] dragon's mouth spring for once the name actually looks and sounds like the name that's so cool wow look at it it's like a fire breathing dragon wow all right the mud volcano area might be my favorite of course the pretty pools are beautiful to look at but I love the ominous and like dark sounding stuff mud volcano is super cool there's literally mud spurting up from the ground and it's covering all of the rock surfaces sometimes it will actually cover the trees and I think it was early explorers called it repulsive and disgusting I think it's awesome okay so it used to skew so high that it would cover trees but then there was one eruption that was so big that actually kind of blew itself apart so now it just kind of bubbles closer to the ground coming up on national parks with the new States we're taking you back to the West Coast for Yosemite Lassen Volcanic Crater Lake Mount Rainier and Olympic National Parks thanks so much for watching we'll see you soon

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Id: jd4msLxK4aQ

Length: 39min 35sec (2375 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 18 2023