Day 1: According to the internet about 3 million people a year visit Yellowstone, but only about 1% of them visit during January. We actually have so far found in a beautiful time to travel here, maybe because we lucked out with unusually warm weather so the streets were easy to navigate. We stayed at here (VRBO that we would highly recommend) and came into Yellowstone in the North entrance and drove into the Lamar valley (headed toward Cooke city).

The highlight of the day is when we saw what we thought was a wolf right in the middle of the road (turned out later to be a coyote). Lots of beautiful wildlife and the scenery was stunning.