Things to do in Yellowstone National Park
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Old Faithful Inn
Snack bars, delis, burger counters and grocery stores are scattered around the park. In addition, most of the lodges offer breakfast buffets, salad bars, and lunches and dinners in formal dining rooms. Food, while not always exceptional, is quite good considering how many people the chef is cooking for, and not too overpriced for the exceptional views. The Old Faithful Inn is our favorite restaurant. It has a more innovative menu, serving a selection of nouveau American West cuisine - think seasoned game meat paired with eclectic sauces.
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Old Faithful
You can feel the tension build as you wait for an eruption of Old Faithful - not the biggest, not the most frequent, but easily the most iconic geyser in the park. Erupting every 90 minutes, Old Faithful spouts some 30,000L (8000 gallons) of water up to 55m (180ft) in the air. Tip: the first thing to do when you arrive is to check the predicted geyser eruption times at the visitor center and then plan your explorations around these.
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Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
This is one of the park's true blockbuster sights. After its placid meanderings north from Yellowstone Lake, the Yellowstone River suddenly plummets over Upper Falls and then the much larger Lower Falls, before raging through the 300m-deep (1000ft) canyon. Scenic overlooks and a network of trails along the canyon's rims highlight its beauty from a dozen angles - South Rim Dr leads to the most spectacular overlook at Artist Point.
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Albright Visitor Center
One of eight visitor centers scattered around the park, the Albright in Mammoth is the only one to remain open year-round. It's attached to the park's campus-like administrative heart; elk regularly graze the manicured lawns, bringing traffic to a standstill, and their high-pitched bugling echo around the region in fall. As well as the requisite brochures and maps, the center offers videos and displays on park history.
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Yellowstone Raft Company
There is exhilarating white water through Yankee Jim Canyon on the Yellowstone River just north of the park boundary in Montana. Yellowstone Raft Company offers a range of guided adventures out of Gardiner starting in late May.
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Roosevelt Lodge Cabins
These cabins are good for families. With a cowboy vibe, the place offers nightly 'Old West dinner cookouts.' Guests travel by horse or wagon to a large meadow 3 miles from the lodge for open-air buffets.
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