Montana or bust

Last year my fiance and I needed to come up with a vacation spot. It was getting to be summertime and we still hadn't made up our minds where we wanted to go. We both love the mountains, and although I have been through Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Colorado several times when I was younger traveling with my parents, I was very much game in choosing one of these locations for our (adult) vacation. He had never been out west except to Colorado to visit his best friend from high school. In choosing just where to go, I suggested Glacier National Park in Montana or Yellowstone in Wyoming. Both parks offer fantastic views of mountains and roadways that literally take you right into the wilderness. Plus there is a lot to see on the way there. You could seriously spend weeks in these parks and not even scratch the surface. We had to consider gas prices, in driving out there from Fargo or to fly out there and rent a car. When looking up flights, it was clear that driving was the way to go for economic reasons. Yellowstone is actually larger than Glacier in square miles and would have more access to view wildlife. We decided on Yellowstone finally and to put Glacier on the waiting list for now. We also decided to travel in the fall so we set a date to take off in September. To get there we drove straight west to Bozeman, MT and spent the night there. Bozeman is a pretty town set in between mountain ranges. The next day we went south of Bozeman into Wyoming and to the west entrance of Yellowstone Park. We spent several days in the park driving all the way around the scenic figure eight road system. We liked this one waterfall (the Lower Falls) so much we actually went there twice to see it in different lighting (once at dusk and then at sunrise). We saw countless bison, moose, elk, mountain goats and we also got to see a grizzly bear. It was quite a drive to get there but well worth it, we've both decided we want to go back again in a few years.