On Wednesday we headed out to Yellowstone National Park. We went up to the west entrance from our place in Victor. Along the way we stopped at Mesa Falls, which is a beautiful set of waterfalls a little south and west of Yellowstone. There are a couple of walkways that lead you down to a safe viewing area to see the waterfalls. Along this trip we saw a lot of waterfalls, which seems to be characteristic of this part of the country with the large rises and falls in elevation. Yellowstone itself has many waterfalls, of which we stopped to see three. The most beautiful of the stops that we made was Painters Point, which gives a great view of the lower falls of the Yellowstone River. It made for some beautiful photographs.

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