Old Faithful is a “must see” if you visit Yellowstone.  You can bring your own “old faithful” if you want to bicycle through the park.

Road biking season starts once the snow has been cleared from the roads. For a short time in Spring, only non-motorized traffic is allowed on the roads. Repeat in the Fall. Doesn’t that sound marvelous?

Enjoy wildlife sightings: coyotes, bison, elk, eagles. Just be sure to give these denizens of the park their space. Maybe wear jingle bells🎶 on your shoes if you want to avoid startling a grizzly bear.

Springtime weather in Yellowstone can be fickle, as it can in many places. Wear or carry warm clothing, such as leg warmers.

Even after the park’s roads are open to motor traffic, the road cycling can still be pretty good; at least where there are shoulders. You still have to be on guard, of course. (So what else is new?)

For a more exciting cycling experience in Yellowstone, try out some mountain biking. Available trails range from easy to intermediate. The Mount Washburn one sounds interesting.

Many years ago, we visited Yellowstone. One of the things we did was to take a ranger-guided walk up Mount Washburn to the fire watch tower. We followed a dirt road; I guess what’s called a fire trail. On the way, I kept smelling skunk.

Yes, on those road trips of ours we occasionally passed a flattened “stink animal”, as German aptly calls it. I know what skunk smells like. I mentioned several times that I kept smelling skunk.

It turned out to be what the ranger told us was skunk flower. I remember it as resembling violets in appearance; but it smelled like skunk!

So if you want to see Yellowstone “close up and personal”, dust off your Old Faithful, and bicycle through the park.