Yellowstone & Grand Teton. The Essential National Parks Travel Guide: Full-Color Maps, Day-by-Day Itineraries, Wildlife Watching, Scenic Drives & Geysers from Old Faithful to the Tetons
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Yellowstone & Grand Teton. The Essential National Parks Travel Guide: Full-Color Maps, Day-by-Day Itineraries, Wildlife Watching, Scenic Drives & Geysers from Old Faithful to the Tetons
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Regular price $39.99
For the traveller who has been talking about Yellowstone and Grand Teton for years and is finally ready to go. If you want to plan a Yellowstone and Grand Teton trip that does not fall apart on day one, then this is the guide to get.
Are you finding that the guides on the shelf were written years ago and quote prices that no longer exist? Are you trying to figure out whether to base in Jackson, in West Yellowstone, in Gardiner, or to move between lodges, with no clear sense of what each choice costs in driving time? Are you worried about missing the wildlife windows and the morning light because you arrived at the wrong hour or queued behind three hundred cars at the same pullout?
This is the book to read before you go.
This guide is written by an author who has spent two decades on the back roads of America and has returned to these parks in different seasons. The two parks are treated as a single connected journey, with each chapter organized around a distinct area and written around the decisions a traveller actually makes on the ground.
In this guide, readers will discover:
If you want to see Yellowstone and Grand Teton with the confidence of someone who has actually made the trip, then grab this guide today
Are you finding that the guides on the shelf were written years ago and quote prices that no longer exist? Are you trying to figure out whether to base in Jackson, in West Yellowstone, in Gardiner, or to move between lodges, with no clear sense of what each choice costs in driving time? Are you worried about missing the wildlife windows and the morning light because you arrived at the wrong hour or queued behind three hundred cars at the same pullout?
This is the book to read before you go.
This guide is written by an author who has spent two decades on the back roads of America and has returned to these parks in different seasons. The two parks are treated as a single connected journey, with each chapter organized around a distinct area and written around the decisions a traveller actually makes on the ground.
In this guide, readers will discover:
- Full-color maps of both parks plus detail maps of the Upper Geyser Basin, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Mammoth terraces, Jenny Lake, and downtown Jackson, with a snapshot card for every headline attraction: duration, best time, entry, what to see
- Day-by-day itineraries for 3, 5, 7, and 10-day visits, plus a 4-day winter route using snowcoach access and the year-round Gardiner-to-Cooke-City corridor
- A twelve-month season planner for when roads, lodges, and geyser basins open, alongside a shoestring-to-premium budget planner with per-day figures at three tiers
- The 12 most reliable geyser basins to visit, with a timing guide of eruption intervals for the predictable ones and how each looks at different times of day
- The wildlife-watching circuit through Lamar and Hayden Valleys, with the pullouts that work best at first light, the species-by-species safe distances, and the January 1995 wolf reintroduction, three decades on
- The 4 in-park lodges that fill six to thirteen months ahead, including the Old Faithful Inn, Jackson Lake Lodge, Jenny Lake Lodge, and Lake Yellowstone Hotel
- The full 42-mile Teton scenic loop with every recommended overlook and turnout
- Trail-by-trail coverage from Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point through Cascade Canyon to Lake Solitude, with distances and elevation gain for each
- The 10-mile Snake River float route from Deadman's Bar to Moose, including put-in logistics
- The Mormon Row historic district, the Chapel of the Transfiguration, and the homesteads that frame the most photographed barns in America, sitting on ground the 1890s Grovont community broke by hand and irrigated from the Gros Ventre River
- Two full-page detour spreads worth an afternoon: the Beartooth Highway east from Cooke City to Red Lodge, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art two miles north of Jackson
- A photography timing chart pairing subject with hour, from Mormon Row at dawn to Grand Prismatic at noon
- A Twenty Essentials list at the back, plotted on a single reference map for travellers with limited time
- A schematic distance chart with mileages between every major point in both parks
- A street-level map of downtown Jackson covering restaurants, hotels, and the Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center
- The geology of the Yellowstone hotspot and the indigenous history of the region, written for travellers who want to understand the landscape they are driving through
If you want to see Yellowstone and Grand Teton with the confidence of someone who has actually made the trip, then grab this guide today