On Friday, September 26, 2009, I found this book at the museum store of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. Indeed, I first found the initial edition of this book, and was considering puchasing it, when I found this Second (and more recent) Edition. Today we completed the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks portion of our vacation, and I feel that our enjoyment of the Parks was greatly enhanced by this book.
After an introductory section giving overall uiseful information about the Parks, the author concentrates on Yellowstone National Park. There are five Entrances to the park, several routes by which one may get to one of these entrances, and several roads within the park itself; and the author covers these routes and roads in 20 separate chapters. For each road / route, she not only advises of points of interest, but also gives historical and general information.
The author then turns her attention to Grand Teton National Park, and in eight chaptes covers the routes and roads to and in the Park.
I used this book as our Bible while we went through the Parks, all the way from Cody, Wyoming to Garden City, Utah. My one quibble with the book is that if one is taking a route in reverse order, one must read the chapter for that route backwards; but it would obviously have made the book twice as thick to give information for each route / road in one direction and then in the other direction. Otherwise, I think this book was the best purchase I made on our vacation.
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