After leaving the Norris Geyser Basin, we headed up north to Mammoth Hot Springs for lunch. We found out from the waiter that the park made the decision to close the roads for the season at 7pm due to an incoming winter storm. The original closure date was scheduled for midnight tomorrow so we lost a day at the park. We were able to confirm this information on the park website. We decided to continue with our current plan and visited the nearby Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces before driving back down south to see the Artists Paint Pots. Rather than visit some of the smaller sights along the way, we headed down to the Midway Geyser Basin to see the Grand Prismatic Spring, something we originally planned on doing tomorrow.
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We headed out before sunrise once again, this time going north to Norris Geyser Basin. This large thermal area occupied nearly the entire morning!
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We headed out before sunrise to Yellowstone National Park, hoping to hit most of the thermal areas on the way to Old Faithful. We ended up seeing quite a bit and walking for many hours. We didn’t visit all the places we were planning to, mainly because we tried to catch some geysers erupting. That wasn’t particularly successful today.
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We arrived via the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park late in the afternoon, less than two hours before sunset. Not much time at all! We decided to hit some of the thermal features just south of Madison Junction.
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