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Rocky Mountain RV Campground
and Yellowstone National Park |
Rocky Mountain RV Campground - a Good Sam park - 4 blocks from Yellowstone National Park's North entrance. The park provided full hooks ups, 50/30 amp electrical service, WI-FI, cable TV with limited channels, dog sitting service, complimentary miniature golf, laundromat, gift store, restrooms. Tents, Screen rooms and similar structures NOT permitted in RV Sites. $10 fee to wash your own vehicle. No clotheslines or hanging of towels or other clothing outside. No satellites, mats, chairs on lawns. It is requested that you retract you awing in evenings or when you are gone due to winds that come up suddenly. A grizzly bear was seen in the campground recently, but not while the two RV Gypsies were there. | |
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The RV of
the two RV Gypsies & the view from their bay windows (not so great) |
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The view from the front window of their RV and from the back of their RV is much better than the above view from their bay windows. | |
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Yellowstone
National Park September 5, 2009 |
North Gate - Yellowstone's
only year round entrance, - Gardiner, Montana. Gardiner is situated in
Southwest Montana, at the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
The town is nestled in breath-taking Paradise Valley, with the Yellowstone
River running right through town. Gardiner has the atmosphere of a quaint
western town. |
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The Roosevelt Arch is the most famous structure in Gardiner. The Yellowstone Entrance Gateway (Arch) was dedicated by President Theodore Roosevelt on 24 April 1903. The arch is visible two miles north of Gardiner on Highway 89. |
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Lee Duquette liked the tree shown below because of
the hole; in it. |
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Hymen Terrace |
Lee checking the temperature of the water - "Cold"- what a surprise! |
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For hundreds of years, people collected minerals from Mammoth Hot Springs for white paint. These minerals contribute to the beautiful terrace structures, along with heat provide by volcanism, a natural plumbing system that allows hot water from underground to reach the surface, water from rain and snow, and limestone deposited here millions of years ago when a vast sea covered this area. | |
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The 37 foot tall Liberty Cap - a dormant hot springs cone estimated to be 2,500 years old, and created by a hot spring that was active in one location for a long time. Its internal pressure was enough to raise the water to a great height, allowing mineral deposits to build slowly for hundreds of years. Liberty Cap was named in 1871 because it resembled the pealed knit caps symbolizing freedom and liberty during the French Revolution. | |
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Opal Terrace - Maximum water temperature here is 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Glad the water Lee touched earlier wasn't hot like this. |
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Karen Duquette thought this part
of Opal Terrace looks like pumpkins |
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Killdeer nest on bare ground
and will call in alarm if visitors are too close by. |
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Karen Duquette loved photographing the texture and color in this area. Thermophiles (heat-loving microorganisms) create tapestries of color where hot water flows among the terraces. Colorless and yellow thermophiles grow in the hottest water. Orange, brown and green thermophiles thrive in cooler waters. Colors also change with the season. | |
Devil's Thumb
at Mammoth Hot Springs |
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great colors
and texture |
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Minerva Terraces |
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A mountain, overlook, and lots of stairs |
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view from the top of the same overlook |
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looking down the cliff at Golden Gate |
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