Grand Tetons National Park

July 4^th we were hoping to make it to the National forest just outside Buffalo, Wyoming, but the van had other ideas. We were about 5 miles out of Buffalo headed up a very steep grade when the van started overheating. Instead of pushing our luck we turned around and went back to a campground in Buffalo. The campground didn’t have much going for it other than a steakhouse across the street where we got to eat bison steak and elk medallions and a really nice guy from Alabama that we met that brought us coffee in the morning. Other than that, it was just a place to sleep. July 5^th we headed towards the Tetons. We made it to the National Forest just outside the park and camped there for a night. The amount of wild flowers didn’t stop impressing me each time we saw meadow speckled with purple, yellow, white and red. July 6^th we woke early and drove almost all the way through Grand Tetons National Park and found an incredible “primitive” campsite right on the boarder of Yellowstone on the Snake River that allowed free camping. It was the best of all worlds: privacy, a view of the Tetons, on a river and at no cost! We got lucky and saw a female moose feeding in a meadow.

certain areas of the road were lined with signs pointing out ancient rock

National Forest to the East of the park

moose cow eating on the edge of a meadow

National Forest outside North entrance to park

on Snake River