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From Old Faithful Village to West Thumb Junction

editor — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:00:00 +0000

From Old Faithful to West Thumb is a distance of about 19 miles (31 km), as measured from the visitor center. Worth stopping for on the way are Kepler Cascades, Lone Star Geyser Trail, and Isa Lake at the western crossing of the Continental Divide, as well as the views from Shoshone Point and from above West Thumb Junction. Old Faithful Village to West Thumb junction name of the 12-year-old son of Wyoming Territory’s Governor John Hoyt. The boy was with his father in a group searching for suitable routes from Wyoming into the park in 1881, and he was

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Yellowstone: NORTHEAST ENTRANCE

editor — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:01:00 +0000

The Northeast Entrance is the closest one to Billings, Montana, but it’s not the fastest way to get to the park from Billings the fastest is by going through the North Entrance, described below. Two high, spectacular mountain roads approach Yellowstone from the northeast. The most popular road, the Beartooth Scenic Byway (U.S. 212), crosses the Beartooth Range on a series of switchbacks between Red Lodge and Cooke City. The late CBS news correspondent Charles Kuralt asserted in his 1979 book, Dateline America, that the most beautiful road in America is U.S. 212, which leaves Red Lodge, climbs to Beartooth

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