West Yellowstone and Grand Teton

We had a wonderful day in the town of West Yellowstone Montana where we took it easy before our drive down to Grand Teton national park. We started with a stop at the West Yellowstone Ranger Station where the girls were awared their Junior Ranger Patches in recognition of their completion of Yellowstone's Junior Ranger program.

Then we visited the Grizzly Discovery Center. It's a museum and rescue facility where they had some great exhibits on grizzlies and black bears and had a few live grizzlies that had been rescued from zoos or the wild. We got to seem them have their feeding and a good romp around in their big pen area. Very impressive animals. Unfortunately we didn't see any bears in the wild.

The drive down to Grand Teton was beautiful. Most of it through Yellowstone and then out the south entrance into Grand Teton. The first view of the mountain range across Jackson Lake on the drive down was breathtaking.

We had an amazing dinner with the Whites at Jackson Lake lodge with a view out over the lake across to the mountains.

A nice stroll after dinner on the nearby trail treated us to some elk and moose grazing in the valley below.

Then off to the rv stop for a relatively late arrival, especially for the girls.