West Yellowstone trip

[elf]

Just got back from West Yellowstone where I spent a week riding with my son. He's going to college at Montana Tech in Butte so we met for his spring break. While the snow wasn't over the hood deep except for a couple meadows we got into we had a great time. He's a tight trees type of guy while I like things a bit more open. Lots of stucks, mostly him! But thats mostly because he's fearless which may not be good all the time. We had lots of opportunities to inspect the condition of his track!

 

[mrbb]

sounds and looks like you had a great time
and nothing wrong with being young and fearless,, it builds character and makes memories, and some times, gets you some nice aches and pains for when you get older,
to help you remember them younger days LOL

 

[Deleted member 10829]

Nice pics, pretty area. Looks like a bunch of workouts getting unstuck. Great memories for sure!

 

[pclark]

Love seeing the pics, looks like a nice trip.

 

[600_RMK_144]

Great pics. We rode the area 5-6 yrs ago. Other than the 24hr ride in the truck, the area was awesome. Lots of trails if you are into that and plenty of places to wonder off when you want too. Awesome memories you are making with your son. That's what it's all about IMO!!!!

 

[elf]

Great pics. We rode the area 5-6 yrs ago. Other than the 24hr ride in the truck, the area was awesome. Lots of trails if you are into that and plenty of places to wonder off when you want too. Awesome memories you are making with your son. That's what it's all about IMO!!!!

Yeah, the drive sucks. Its just under 16 hours for me, 1060 miles.

 

[skiroule]

Beautiful scenery and awesome photos! I get winded just looking at some of them though.

 

[elf]

A couple of them took some work. Should've brought the chain saw based on the # of trees we cut down for a couple of stucks.

 

[Wong]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a place to stay in West Yellowstone? We have a group of 8 that will be going out there in the next couple of years. Also, how far in advance do you need to make reservations for lodging?

 

[elf]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a place to stay in West Yellowstone? We have a group of 8 that will be going out there in the next couple of years. Also, how far in advance do you need to make reservations for lodging?

We stayed at the Explorer cabins in town. Ours was a 2 bedroom, kind of expensive but originally my wife was coming with. For a group of 8 though I'd just start looking for Air BnB's or VRBO. We reserved ours in early Nov I believe. One thing that surprised us is we intended to do the tour of the park, which meant renting 4 strokes and riding down to old faithful. Thats why my wife wanted to come with. When we started looking at that in late Oct or so they were completely booked for the winter already.
Another thing to think about is we were out there from 3/13-3/19/ While we had plenty of snow and no trouble getting around town the park shuts down for the winter season on 3/15 and correspondingly 1/2 the town shut down too. Hotels were shutting down that date, places to eat, etc... Everybody takes a month or two off before the crazy summer season. They do maintain trails thru 3/31 I believe.

 

[Wong]

We stayed at the Explorer cabins in town. Ours was a 2 bedroom, kind of expensive but originally my wife was coming with. For a group of 8 though I'd just start looking for Air BnB's or VRBO. We reserved ours in early Nov I believe. One thing that surprised us is we intended to do the tour of the park, which meant renting 4 strokes and riding down to old faithful. Thats why my wife wanted to come with. When we started looking at that in late Oct or so they were completely booked for the winter already.
Another thing to think about is we were out there from 3/13-3/19/ While we had plenty of snow and no trouble getting around town the park shuts down for the winter season on 3/15 and correspondingly 1/2 the town shut down too. Hotels were shutting down that date, places to eat, etc... Everybody takes a month or two off before the crazy summer season. They do maintain trails thru 3/31 I believe.

Thank you for the information.

 

[600_RMK_144]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a place to stay in West Yellowstone? We have a group of 8 that will be going out there in the next couple of years. Also, how far in advance do you need to make reservations for lodging?

VRBO or Air BNB as recommended for a larger group. The Yellowstone / Island Park area is pretty commercialized, so lodging typically is not a problem. Unless the snow is super good, typically you can find a cabin a couple of weeks in advance from what I've seen. Jan 2017, We stayed at a guys personal cabin we found thru VRBO. Six guys slept in it fine and the lower level (finished basement) had room for 1-2 more. We never had to go down there thou. He was a super nice guy and answered tons of questions we had about sledding, etc. Checked on us as we were arriving to make sure we made it safely and got into the cabin OK. I'd for sure go back again and use Alan's cabin if we did. There is a trail right by the cabin, no need to trailer.

Contact Info: Alan Lang; Island Park Cabin... 863-832-0683 / joseph59lang@yahoo.com

 

[Wong]

VRBO or Air BNB as recommended for a larger group. The Yellowstone / Island Park area is pretty commercialized, so lodging typically is not a problem. Unless the snow is super good, typically you can find a cabin a couple of weeks in advance from what I've seen. Jan 2017, We stayed at a guys personal cabin we found thru VRBO. Six guys slept in it fine and the lower level (finished basement) had room for 1-2 more. We never had to go down there thou. He was a super nice guy and answered tons of questions we had about sledding, etc. Checked on us as we were arriving to make sure we made it safely and got into the cabin OK. I'd for sure go back again and use Alan's cabin if we did. There is a trail right by the cabin, no need to trailer.

Contact Info: Alan Lang; Island Park Cabin... 863-832-0683 / joseph59lang@yahoo.com

Awesome, thank you for the contact information.