Yellowstone National Park is a favorite place we enjoy revisiting. We had planned to spend most of May 2020 visiting the park, but the COVID-19 situation forced us to reschedule this visit to September.
We spent the first part of our visit based at Rocky Mountain RV Park in Gardiner, Montana. Deer and elk are frequently seen near or in the campground. One morning we found this buck browsing on the bushes right by our motorhome. He did not pay much attention to us walking around.
Roosevelt Arch stands near the north entrance to Yellowstone on the edge of Gardiner. The cornerstone for the arch was laid by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. The arch straddled the Old Yellowstone Highway, which is now mostly bypassed by US Highway 89.
The Old Yellowstone Highway is a nice back country drive, but a landslide has closed a section of it.
Near Gardiner is a very prominent geologic formation named the Devil's Slide. This formation is now on land owned by the religious group Church Universal
and Triumphant which prefers to call it Angel's Ascent.
One of our drives out of Gardiner was the Beartooth Highway up to Beartooth Pass.
Pilot Peak (left) and Index Peak (right)
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