Your Yellowstone Guide: Let's Take a Hike

helping you map out your Yellowstone adventure

& encouraging you to navigate life by faith 

Let's go

Hi there! I’m Natalie.

After living and working in Yellowstone, I now return nearly every year as a visitor. Not only do I know the park from the inside, I know what it’s like to navigate the details of getting there from the outside. 

If you’re intimidated by planning your Yellowstone adventure, I’m here to help. If you’d like to read about what Yellowstone has taught me about living life by faith, I’m here for that, too.

Let’s go to Yellowstone.

Blog Posts: Tales from the Trail

Yellowstone and the Waiting World

Yellowstone and the Waiting World

Yellowstone is quiet right now. Its hibernators have denned and many of its birds have flown away. Its roads, except for the one between the North and Northeast Entrance, are empty. The park and its visitors are waiting. They aren’t waiting for the traffic to unsnarl...

Where to Stay in Yellowstone

Where to Stay in Yellowstone

Back when I worked in Yellowstone, I enjoyed desk duty at the Old Faithful Visitor’s Center (now the Visitor Education Center). Even back when park visitation was 2.5 million (as opposed to today’s approximately 4 million), the crowd pushing against the counter and...

Earned, not Bestowed

Earned, not Bestowed

Seeing a three-way split in the trail ahead, I slowed, looking for a clue as to which one was ours. There was nothing—no sign, no discernible difference between the trails, no indication of which path was the one we wanted. Because my husband always knows where he is...

How to Plan Your Yellowstone Vacation

How to Plan Your Yellowstone Vacation

Planning a trip to Yellowstone? Consider these 10 things to help you plan your Yellowstone vacation. Make a plan--one that includes a plan A, and a plan B, and possibly a plan C. Bison choose their own crosswalks and cross the road slowly. In herds. Wildlife block the...

Finding the Invitation in Prepare Him Room
Are you prepared?
Finding the Invitation in Prepare Him Room
Old Faithful Eruption
Old Faithful Eruption

“There is a great deal of good to be learned from what we see every day, if we would but consider it.”

~ Matthew Henry