Yellowstone National Park: Photos 21 to 31

Unlike other National Parks we have been to Yellowstone is by far the most remote. Set predominantly in the Northwest corner of Wyoming with parts of the park crossing into both Idaho and Montana. The nearest major city was Salt Lake, which was back in Utah some 350 miles away. However the seclusion and remoteness only added to the mystery and tranquillity of this place.

Entering at the Southeast entrance it was still a further 27 miles before we hit the main 167-mile loop road. Along the way there we spotted a Bison and desperately stopped the car in order to take a picture, not realising that Bison are in abundance all over the park and that this was one of many that we would eventually see.
The road, lined with snow in places and at some points as thick as 4 feet deep, gave us a small indication of the likely whether we should expect. During the drive towards the main loop we passed the enormous Yellowstone lake, surrounding the lake were pine tree forests and large snow-capped mountains, scenery that excelled expectation and, for that, imagination.

As we arrived late in the day we were unable to

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