Kelsey Zimmerman
Ms. Anthony
English 101-103
14 April 2014
A Day at Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is a well known national park,
people talk about it, travel, and venture to and from it all the time. It is not just a national park, it's a place
where countless memories can be made.
There are so many different occasions you can go there for,
anniversaries, family vacation, or even just a little road trip. You definitely get an awesome workout by
walking up and down so many different trails to see waterfalls, wildlife and
people that are just like you.
Yellowstone National Park is by far one of my favorite places I would
like to see. There are several ways that
you can get there, you could take a bus, a plane, or you can just drive
yourself. I personally would end up
driving, you have nothing but road that lies ahead of you and you get to see
how different people, towns and cities really are. When you’re in the country you see kids
coming outside and playing as they eat their popsicles. As your passing through the second you get
into the country you can smell the fresh scent in the air, and quite often you
smell the cow monure. You hit the city and
all you see are people walking, people getting held up in traffic, and you
don’t see much of the kids. When you
take a deep breath, you can tell that it’s in the city because it doesn’t have
that cleansing feel to it. To observe so
many different places with different people you really see how one thing could
make a person significant. The cool air
keeps your car nice and cool and if it gets to cold you can simply turn it off,
you control everything when you drive, and music is always a big thing for me I
can’t live without it. It’s a long drive
so depending on the amount of monsters and coffee you have; you may end up
having to stop in at a motel for a day.
If your smart and you think ahead, you could have someone riding with
you and when you start getting tired you trade off and then when you wake up
you’ll be at Yellowstone National Park, whereas if your not smart you may end
up staying in one of those really creepy old hotels and you'll end up dead or
something. That last sentence was just a
joke, but you probably will end up in a hotel that hasn't had the bedding
washed in a month, with roaches and spiders all over the floor because you
didn't even reserve a room at the better hotel and when you got there they were
all booked. When you arrive at
Yellowstone you get to venture off on all sorts of different trails, there are over 1,100 miles of hiking
available. You should check the forcast
for the area you'll stay at for the night just in case there are going to be
severe storms or something. You have to
be careful when you venture off alone into the woods because you can never tell
what weather conditions are going to be like or how the wildlife is going to
react. Doing a little bit of research
about Yellowstone, I actually found out that according to Jordan Fisher Smith,
“between 1950 and 1974 1,060 people were injured by bears in Yellowstone, a
symptom of an ecosystem out of balance.”
I personally think it’s a good idea to find out what type of animals are
somewhere before I venture off so that if something does happen I know how to
respond to it. There are actually over
60 mammals that live in Yellowstone, they have bears, cats, dogs, raccoons,
weasels, pika’s, hare’s, rabbits, beavers, squirrels, gophers, mice, porcupine,
elk, bison, deer, moose, bats and a ton of others. Yellowstone has a ton of different things you
can do, you’ll never go bored! I mean
the fact that Yellowstone is actually resting on top of a volcano that has not
erupted half a million years ago and that there are 2,221,766 acres has nothing
to do with it. The human history of the
Yellowstone region goes back more than 11,000 years and it was the first
national park Established on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone National Park is really
significant to me because when I was around twelve years old my cousin started
going on vacation there and he’d send us post cards through the mail with
different animals on it. My sisters and
I use to always fight over who had the best post card. We would always wait for him to get back and
when he did he’d always have stuffed animals, shirts and he even got my mom a
shot glass once, and that is how I learned about Yellowstone. I feel like Yellowstone is such a beautiful
place to see because it has so many different things about it like you can go
hiking, take photos of some of the animals, there are souvenir shops, you can
go see the waterfalls, just so many different things that you can do and it’ll
all be worth it in the end. Waterfalls
are one of the biggest things for me because he always gave me the card with a
really pretty waterfall on it, the sound of a waterfall is one of the prettiest
sounds that I have ever heard. The
traditional use of the lands of Yellowstone dates back to over two hundred
years ago. Yellowstone is not just a
national park, it is also used to help preserve and protect all sorts of different
animals. When your walking down the
trails and you see those animals all that can come to your mind is how it is
such a natural beauty. When you take the
time to actually go out hiking, camping and just capture memories with your
loved ones. All in all, Yellowstone is
one of my favorite places to go because I mean it's not like it's just a
national park it's also the memories you get to cherish, the new experiences,
getting to know different animals, the absorption of nature and your
surroundings and you may even find out something about yourself that you never
knew.
