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LABryan
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 4:03 pm: | |
I'm planning a trip to Yellowstone this July. I couldn't find anything recent in the archives. Any suggestions about where to stay (or avoid)? I'll be towing my car, so a little distance from the park is OK. I can camp dry for a long time, but at least a 15 amp connection would be nice. Thanks.
Bryan |
david anderson (Davidanderson)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 8:04 pm: | |
Bryan,
If you come up dry here, go to the escapees.com or the Woodalls.com forum and search the archives for "Yellowstone". Ton's of reviews about campsites. Plus the members are so friendly and it is a great place to get info about RV living. They also have a small Bus Conversion forum which many of our regulars from here post. I learn all my bus conversion stuff from here and all my RV and camping stuff from them.
Have a great trip.
David |
Doug Wotring
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:52 am: | |
Forest service has a campground just North of West yellowstone. A bit further north there are a few roads that run up into the valies that have excelent scenery and camping spots If you want seclusion |
Dallas Farnworth (Dal300)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:57 am: | |
I lived in West Yelowstone back in the '70's and found the best camping areas by going to the FS office and buying a Topo map. Lots of great places to camp, many you can pull into with a bus with no problem.
Make SURE you take lots of bug spray, no matter where you stay.
Dallas |
Doug Wotring
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 5:03 pm: | |
Hey Dallas,
I lived/worked for the FS in West in 2001.
Glad I didn't have to stay the winter |
niles steckbauer (Niles500)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 5:27 pm: | |
There are over 2000 campsites w/in the park run mostly by part-time workampers - not all of the campsites can be reserved in advance - each morning you can appear in person or guaranty reservation by phone (early bird gets the you know what) - I stayed there 4 nights in a row w/o advance res. and never had to leave park because of an interesting but non-disseminated feature, If you show up in the evening when registration time ends (check campground rules on website for registration closing time) and there are no available sites they will let you park and dry camp in the parking area for FREE if space is available - if you show up too early they will send you away, you have to be there at closing - this is important because camping is only allowed w/in campgrounds unless you have a backcountry/tent camping permit - they do a fairly rigorous enforcement job too - Other than that most campgrounds are to be found relatively far away and outside the Park Boundries - FWIW
*** Disclaimer: Unless things have changed since I was last there |
Dallas Farnworth (Dal300)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 6:29 pm: | |
Doug,
Winter in West is the most fun time.
Take a snowmobile from west gate to Old Fathful and watch it with 15 feet of snow all around but right in the immediate vicinity it's 40-50 degrees.
Most of the tourists are gone in the winter too. Makes it easier to get around town.
Even the police use snowmobiles in the winter to get around.
And a fine time was had by all!
Dallas |
Linda-4104-FL
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 10:11 pm: | |
In the summer of 2004 we had no luck getting a camp site inside Yellowstone. They would not let us camp in there unless the entire bus AND the towed vehicle would fit inside the site, and they had none available of a size that would take our 35' bus and Tundra pickup. However, on the north side of West Yellowstone there was a state park (this might be the same one that Doug Wotring mentions) that was just fine. I can't recall the driving distance from the state park campground to the Yellowstone entrance, but it was not bad. I'm pretty sure we had electric at the site. It was listed in the Trailer Life campground directory that we had that year. |