by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 3, 2025 | Yellowstone Guide
After a summer of working in Yellowstone and close to forty years of near-annual visits to the park, a trip to Yellowstone feels like going home. This is at once a blessing and a curse. With so many places to revisit, check in on, and catch up with, it’s hard to...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Nov 8, 2024 | Yellowstone Guide
We started taking our kids out on Yellowstone’s trails when they were tiny, as in four, eight, and fifteen months tiny. They went from being carried to toddling to running ahead and we went from being the pack animals who carried them to trying to keep up. These...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Sep 12, 2024 | Lessons from Yellowstone, Yellowstone Guide
This summer one of Yellowstone’s thermal features had a moment. Headlines featuring the word explosion will do that. At the end of July, Black Diamond Pool in Biscuit Basin didn’t just erupt. It exploded. Something happened in the unstable ground below it or maybe...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Apr 13, 2024 | Yellowstone Guide
When is the best time to go to Yellowstone? I get this question a lot. Here’s the simple answer: Whenever works best for you. While simple is good, you may want something a little more, shall we say, helpful. Here it is: There is no bad time, no wrong time to go to...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 30, 2024 | Yellowstone Guide
It took just one trip to Yellowstone for my husband to discover that my beliefs about its weather are–in a word–delusional. It began the night before our first vacation. The next morning, as soon as he finished his last exam of his senior year, we aimed...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 11, 2024 | Yellowstone Guide
Yellowstone in winter is an adventure in comparatives. It’s more majestic and less crowded than in other seasons. It’s more difficult to get around. (Even the animals take the road.) It’s also more difficult to do simple and necessary tasks. (Consider a visit to an...