YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Photo Credit: Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is a national treasure. Located primarily in Wyoming, the park also extends into Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone has active geothermal features with geysers and boiling mud pots throughout the park. Travelers be warned, July is the busiest month of the year, with almost a million visitors alone. The park has a tour bus system, nine visitor centers, and 2,000 campsites. It has 88 attractions, and here's the top 10.

Photo credit: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

#1 Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone - Truly amazing! There are lots of turnouts and walks to see it from different viewpoints. Take advantage of these and enjoy the scenery.

Photo credit: Lower Yellowstone River Falls

#2 Lower Yellowstone River Falls - The lower falls are majestic and never disappoint. What an amazing area to view. Make sure you stop at the brink of the upper and lower falls as well.

Photo credit: Upper Geyser Basin

#3 Upper Geyser Basin - So much to see in the park yet visitors selected this area as an outstanding wonder. Just about every natural wonder is here. Pools, boiling mud, fantastic colors: it's all here. 

Photo credit: Artist Point

#4 Artist Point - Wonderful spot to see all the colors radiated to the surface by thousand years of volcanic thermal action. Not to be missed in Yellowstone!

Photo credit: Midway Geyser Basin

#5 Midway Geyser Basin - Very interesting and colorful hot springs. Rivers of hot water from the springs pouring into the flowing river. Display of steam blowing in the wind is amazing. Beautiful walkway around the hot springs!

Photo credit: Grand Prismatic Spring

#6 Grand Prismatic Spring - One has to experience this natural phenomenon for oneself as another's words cannot adequately convey the beauty of this place.

Photo credit: Hayden Valley

#7 Hayden Valley - Great wildlife viewing! Bison, of course, and also bears and coyotes all around the valley. Great expensive views of the valley and the Yellowstone River made for wonderful landscape.

Photo credit: Uncle Tom's Trail

#8 Uncle Tom's Trail - Its an easy 328 steps down but a very hard 328 steps back up. The reward once you get there is simply amazing. The waterfall is beautiful. Great photo opportunity once you get there.

Photo credit: Yellowstone Lake

#9 Yellowstone Lake - A big, blue, beautiful, and full of surprises. It is also freezing. Unlike many of the other hot spring features throughout Yellowstone, the lake is super cold.

Photo credit: Biscuit Basin

#10 Biscuit Basin - Visitors love this basin and particularly love the 1.5 hour loop hike around to Mystic Falls. Easy walk which takes in fabulous view of park and the beautiful falls and river. Highly recommend!