Yellowstone Lake

Yellowstone Lake is a big sucker. It has over 100 miles of shoreline and it covers over 130 square miles. Interestingly, it is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. above 7,000 feet elevation. Dagan took these photos of it today and it is breathtaking. I know that pictures of mountains never do them justice. But these are pretty awesome.

Traveling to Yellowstone National Park

Our weary traveler left the Kansas City Greyhound station on the first day of June and traveled west. And he had to travel for a long time. Unfortunately, the bus was late arriving in Denver, so he missed his connection to Billings, Montana. This meant that he had to dwell in the Denver bus station for seven or eight miserable hours, and this was after traveling for a butt-numbing 12 hours already.

The next morning, he boarded another bus for Billings. On this leg of his journey, he finished up with Colorado and drove through the entire state of Wyoming. That's where these photographs came from... a weary young man snapping pics from inside a Greyhound bus. The first photo reads, "World's largest mineral hot spring," which was taken near Hot Springs State Park.

Working in Yellowstone National Park

Dagan was hired as seasonal help in the oldest national park in America, Yellowstone National Park. He left a week after he graduated high school. I started this blog to share his photos in one neat, tidy place.

About Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is situated in the northwest corner of Wyoming, but it parts of it do extend into Montana and Idaho as well. Yellowstone was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.

Photo credit: National Park Service/Jupiter Terrace & Spring; Mammoth Hot Springs; S Canter; 1967 (source)

Yellowstone is known for its immense size (it encompasses a huge area — 3,468 sq miles), its amazing scenery and its geothermal activity, particularly geyers such as Old Faithful. It has abundant wildlife and is just a gorgeous place. Dagan will have a huge yard to play in on his off days!