Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone

We stopped at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone this morning on our way to Bozeman. The Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center is an AZA accredited Not-for-Profit, wildlife park and educational facility. All the animals at the Grizzly & Wolf Discover Center are unable to survive in the wild and serve as ambassadors for their wild counterparts. It cost $13 per adult admission. There is also a gift shop next door. Lots of informational boards are throughout the area.

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You’re able to walk around and see the wolves and raptors. The grizzly bears take turns coming out of their dens into their habitat area. They hide snacks under the rocks and the bears find them. There is also a waterfall and pool area that they were playing in. There is a daily schedule on their website, and you get a copy when you get there, of which animals are where. There are eight grizzly bears. Sam is the largest and he is kept by himself, mostly for the safely of the other ones.

      

They also have a Chat and Enrichment with the wolves, where they talk about the wolves and hide food in the habitat area and you can watch them find it. There are six wolves, three different packs.

   

We also saw two hawks, a golden eagle and peregrine falcon. There are naturalist programs with the raptors, but we didn’t get there early enough for them. They also have Keeper Kids for ages 5-12 and Keeper Crew for ages 13-17 to help hide the food for the bears.

   

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Bill Frome County Park, Henry’s Lake, ID - free

We stopped at an Island Park boondocking site off highway 20 to check it out. There’s a parking lot right off the highway that had one camper in it. We unhooked the jeep and took it to some of the forest service roads, but they’re pretty wet yet, some had snow, and some were really rutted. 
   

So we drove around to Henry’s Lake with the jeep and checked out the county park. It has cell service and a great view, and there was nobody else there. We went back the highway route and hooked up to the coach and came to the park on the highway. 

Bill Frome County Park is on Henry’s Lake near Island Park in Idaho, close to West Yellowstone. We found the site through freecampsites.net. There are no hookups. Some sites have picnic tables and fire rings. There are restrooms. There is a boat launch and docks (which weren’t in the water yet). The first night there were three vehicles along with us overnight. I would imagine that once fishing season opens, the place is busy. A Sheriff’s vehicle drove through daily and also a Fish & Game pickup with boat came in twice daily and launched their boat. We had four TV channels (one Spanish), and Verizon 3G 3-4 bar cell service.

   


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From Idaho Falls to Henry’s Lake, ID

Driving through Idaho there is more farming community and more green grass and trees than what we’re used to seeing in Arizona and Utah. We also had the Teton mountains in our view for a while.

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Going through the Targhee National Forest, there were areas where trees have been replanted and a few signs in the area stating the years they were planted. There’s about a 15-mile of stretch in the forest of “rough road”. 

           

We climbed a couple thousand feet in elevation and had some snow on the sides in the trees and hillsides.

     

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