Road Trip June 2026 - Yellowstone to Boise

Driving through Yellowstone National Park is a combination of somewhat annoying (vehicles, people) and, at the same time, so interesting. You never know for sure what animals you're going to see. This time, we saw more bison than we ever had. In addition to quite a few close to the road, there was a very large herd (guessing about a hundred of them) off in the distance. Also in the distance were lots of elk and sandhill cranes.

Humorously, this bird was sitting on the bison's back for quite some time. I don't think the bison even noticed. 

Just west of West Yellowstone, there's a campground near the Henry's Fork River where we often stop to camp. The pelicans are a mainstay although they were a bit further from the campground this year than they've been in the past. They're also usually more active and we try to take photos of them in flight but this time, they were content to just float along. Or stand, as the water was so shallow. 

 

When in huckleberry country, we have to try out the local flavours. 

This was the sunset from our van. 

The next day we made it to Craters of the Moon National Monument which has a campground there as well. It's been a very windy trip and this, along with some rain, kept both of us awake much of the night. 

We had a short driving day so we decided to go into Boise for lunch. I excitedly told Andrew that Boise is home to 2x CrossFit Games Champion Justin Medeiros. He'd didn't seem too impressed. LOL! 

While at lunch, we realized we were close to the Zoo Boise so put that on our agenda as well. It was a bit disappointing in that there was so much wire on the cages that it was hard to see the animal and virtually impossible to take photos.  I managed to get a couple photos through glass. 

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Boise is so much bigger than either of us imagined and it then took us what seemed like forever to get out of the city! We were much later to our campsite for the night and a bit grumpy and tired. Speaking for myself at least!