Hey everyone it's Madalyn and today's video is about
seven great spots to see wildlife in Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park is home to an incredibly diverse population of animals and it's the most
amazing place to see bison roam free and to view majestic creatures such as bald eagles and grizzly
bears. Please remember that these animals are wild and you should always view from a safe distance,
If you stick around until the end of the video we'll let you know the spots we had
the most luck seeing wildlife. Be sure to leave a comment below and let us know what
you think the best place is for spotting wildlife in Yellowstone National Park.
Number one on our list is the Lamar Valley this is number one on everyone's list it's
located in the northeastern part of the park and is home to bison, elk, wolves, bears, bald,
eagles and many more. It feels like you're on safari when driving through this part of the park.
Number two on the list is the Hayden Valley. This
valley is centrally located with the Yellowstone River flowing through it.
Bears, Bison, Coyotes and Osprey can often be seen in this beautiful oasis.
Number three geyser basins. Keep an eye out while walking along the marked paths in any
of the geyser basins located in Yellowstone. Bison are not afraid to roam along the unstable
and dangerous terrain make sure you stick to marked paths and be sure to keep your distance
The fourth place on the list is the Roosevelt Arch.
You don't have to venture far into the park to have your first wildlife sightings.
Elk, bison, mule deer and pronghorn often roam the meadow surrounding this beautiful park entrance.
The fifth place to see wildlife in Yellowstone National Park is Mammoth Hot Springs.
Elk and bison are frequently spotted in this area located inside the north entrance of the park.
Just south of mammoth Hot Springs along Grand Loop Road, we spotted black bears and mountain goats.
Number six is Lake Yellowstone. Lakes are always the perfect location for wildlife viewing.
Moose are most commonly seen in the marshy areas along Lake Yellowstone.
And number seven on the list is the grizzly and wolf discovery center located in West
Yellowstone. This animal rescue cares for bears and wolves that are unable to survive in the wild.
If you want to make sure you see bears on this trip then this is the place to do it.
As I mentioned at the start of the video we are going to discuss our own wildlife
viewing in Yellowstone National Park. So where did you have the most luck spotting wildlife?
Well Yellowstone National Park is obviously a great place to see wildlife and if you're going,
you're going to see some wildlife and if you're listening this video first off thank you
but we're not going to guarantee that you're going to get to see what you want. If you
want to see a bear we're not going to tell you go here you'll see a bear
but there are some things that you can maximize your chances of seeing a bear or a wolf or one
of those types of you know big animals that aren't as common. You're definitely going to see bison,
you're going to see bison, you're going to see elk, you're probably going to see mule deer,
pronghorn they're pretty much everywhere all the time. So we had the most luck seeing wildlife
up by Mammoth Hot Springs and that's in the north west corner of the park and there's two
loop roads that kind of meet right there and the offshoot on either one of those. If you head east
from Mammoth Hot Springs, or south from Hot Springs you're gonna run into some valleys
and animals like to hang out by sources of water. Lakes, rivers chances are you're gonna spot
something so one of the best ways to maximize your chances of seeing some of those big wildlifes are
to a spend more time in the park. If you go one day I mean you can't guarantee anything if you go and
spend four or five days there, odds are pretty good you're going to see something interesting.
Two dusk and dawn that's when animals are kind of most active going and getting water during the
day especially if it's hot they might be taking a nap, I know I like to do that, but dusk or
dawn spend more time in the park. And then the other thing you want to do is look for a crowd.
Now that's not a guarantee that there's something interesting because we've seen crowds that are
like i mean 50 100 people that are stopped to look at an elk on the side of the road. True
now elks are beautiful, they really are but you're going to see a lot of elk spending more than
a day out there so you know that might not be the most exciting. You might pull up and say
oh man it's just an elk but along with that when you're driving through the park you really need to
be an active driver and watch for the brake lights because people will just out of nowhere
stop and pull off to see pretty much anything doesn't matter so if you have more than one
person in that car they're they're gonna be the ones who are out looking for a while or
keeping their eyes peeled on the road so i think that um you're gonna you're gonna
have spots to see wildlife all throughout the park it's a wild area
um but that any valleys anywhere near lakes um you're gonna have a better shot so if you keep
those three things in mind um extend your amount of time in the park dusk and dawn and be out there
and if you see a crowd there's a good chance that that crowd is looking at something interesting
those three things are really going to enhance your ability to see a bear or a wolf or what have
you and we did just give a whole list of places that you can see wildlife but really you could
see wildlife anywhere in the park they could just be walking along the side of the road at any spot
yeah and so like you know one of the fun ones that i didn't really think about until we were there
was the mountain goats um the mountain goats really hang out on these on the cliffs and
you just kind of look for these white dots that are up on these cliffs and we saw mountain goats
with their babies and they were just up there they're really impressive they were kind of a
surprise hit for us i think because it wasn't you know when you're going through and and thinking
about what you want to see in the park it's the grizzly bears it's the wolves it's it's
bald eagles but then you see these little mountain goats just hanging out on this tiny little ledge
on the cliff it's it's pretty precarious the positions they get into yeah i i found um all
the animals are enjoyable for different reasons and seeing them in the different habitats is
pretty unique so then with that what would you say was your favorite animal that you saw well
my mission was to see a bear and we accomplished that mission several times it's tough to say
because each time we saw the bear a different bear it was so much fun the first time we saw bear
it was kind of that crowd there was a crowd gathered he was down near a lake and we had
this upper vantage point viewing and he was just i think he was napping and then he woke up from
his nap and he went and he uh he was looking for some food yeah kind of uh um jungle book
style flipping over rocks for bugs and all that um it was just fun to watch him in that habitat
um so i think we watched him for about 15 minutes or so and then he kind of wandered off
um then later that evening we saw and again you can actually see videos of these in our vlogs from
that day um we were driving we were driving back from the lamar valley towards gardiner where we
were staying and all of a sudden there was just this big black blob on the side of the road and
we're like is that a bison nope it's a black bear yeah he was by himself just and so we spotted that
ourselves and um it was just us and him a little traffic coming from the other way and i kind of
threw my hands up saying slow down don't scare off this bear and maybe four or five people gathered
um but we were all in our cars nobody got out because the bear was right on the side of the road
pretty close um and again we weren't disturbing him right we kept our distance and that's one of
the things you always want to do when you're seeing wildlife keep your distance they're
welding animals and we've seen people get way too close to bison to elk um they're not your friend
they're they're awesome to look at but they're not your friend there are a lot of stories about bison
ramming into people uh in yellowstone so just you know you don't really need to take that selfie
with the bison just keep your distance and view them and and just enjoy them that way yeah and
then the final night it was kind of the parting gift yellowstone gave us we were leaving the park
and we saw a mama grizzly with her two cubs going through a valley she was really incredible she
was huge it was one of those things where we were like we just wanted to see a bear we just wanted
to see a bear and then we saw two and we're like that's great but now we want to see a grizzly bear
and it happened we got very very lucky that we got to see her at one point she stood up and you could
just see how massive she was yeah and that made i mean it really made our trip um seeing a bear into
in yellowstone national park is um i don't know i think that's probably why a lot of people go
um there's a lot of natural beauty but the wildlife they've called the lamar valley
the serengeti of the united states and it makes sense to an extent i mean it's just
a massive open valley i just don't know of any other place where you can just see all these
animals in their home just wandering free i just i don't think we have that anywhere else if we
do if there's a place you've seen something like it please let me know in the comments because i i
want to go there yep um all in all um the bears in yellowstone um seeing a bear in the wild is just
it's humbling because you're they're just such incredible animals and of course if you're from
montana or wyoming and you've seen bears your entire life you're probably like right yeah
or you see a moose in your backyard you're like this isn't that interesting to me so we loved it
so with that we did get to see a grizzly but what animal do you wish we saw on this trip
well the only one we didn't see on this trip was a wolf and we again were looking for the crowds
and there was one crowd and they said there was a wolf so everyone just gets out and they're
looking there was hundreds of people looking for one wolf and he was nowhere to be seen who knows
yeah so i would want to see a wolf and we'll keep you know that's on the list for next
time i gotta find that wolf we always say you gotta leave a little bit a little bit
something a little something to come back to and the wolf yeah we're coming to find you
just to look at you nothing nothing ominous i will feel strong i'm sure he does
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