{"id":20575,"date":"2016-09-19T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebigoutside.com\/?p=20575"},"modified":"2016-09-19T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:00:01","slug":"photo-gallery-yellowstone-in-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebigoutside.com\/photo-gallery-yellowstone-in-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Gallery: Yellowstone in Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"
\t\t\t\tBy Michael Lanza<\/p>\n
My goal that first day in our first national park: hike the North Rim Trail in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. I walked along the brink of the canyon rim, looking down a thousand feet at the river’s whitewater, and stood at the lip\u00a0of 308-foot-tall Lower Yellowstone Falls. Before that\u00a0autumn visit was over, I dayhiked to a grand, 360-degree view of Yellowstone from the top of 10,243-foot Mount Washburn and saw a herd of elk and four black bears (the latter from the safety of my car). I hiked at dawn around Mammoth Hot Springs, serenaded by\u00a0the bugling of a bull elk, and solo into the magnificent silence of the Black Canyon of the Yellowstone River. And I capped it off with an entirely unplanned event: getting stuck in a classic Yellowstone\u00a0\u201cbison jam.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fall is, in many ways, the\u00a0ideal time to visit Yellowstone. Especially by late September and October, you’ll see far fewer people than in summer, while days are often\u00a0crisp and sunny. Aspen leaves blaze bright yellow in\u00a0Mammoth Hot Springs and\u00a0the Lamar Valley, while ground vegetation takes on more-subtle colors. Steam billows mystically from the hot springs at Mammoth. You may hear an elk bugling\u2014Mammoth on fall mornings and evenings is famous for that\u2014spot wolves in the Lamar Valley and\u00a0bears in the valleys or around Dunraven Pass, or hook some trout on the rivers.<\/p>\n
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