Moving on to Gardiner

We left Hardin, Montana, around 10:30 and it took us a little over 4 hours to get to Gardiner.  Gardiner is located at the north entrance of Yellowstone and has the least mountain grades of any of the roads going to Yellowstone.  It is the original entrance to Yellowstone National Park and the only "drive-in" entrance that is open year round.

As we drove further and further west, we kept getting closer...

 

and closer...

 

to the Rocky Mountains.  We stopped in Livingston to fill up with diesel before heading south on Hwy 89.  The drive just kept getting more scenic the closer we got to Gardiner.

 

We drove through "Paradise Valley"...

 

...and could see Yellowstone River and lots of fishing areas for the entire drive south.

 

 

Rocky Mountain RV Park is located a little ways up on a hill overlooking the town of Gardiner.

And this was going to be our site for the next week.

 

Some of the sites were pull in where you could look out at the scenery through the front windshield of the coach; but our site was a back-in site.  The sites were very close together...

 

but the views were worth it. 

 

I think we're going to like Gardiner, Montana!