RHH's photos with the keyword: madison river

Coming into Yellowstone National Park from the west, one follows the entrance road for fourteen miles from the town of West Yellowstone, just outside the park, to Madison Junction where the entrance road joins the lower loop of the main road. Madison Junction is also the place where the Madison River begins at the confluence of the Gibbon and Firehole Rivers and then flows out of the park to the west along the same route as thee entrance road. There is a campground at Madison Junction and these sunset photos were taken near the campground and the river. We were camped there early in the year when the roads were just being opened.

This is the Madison River at Madison Junction just outside the campground there. The Madison River begins here at the confluence of the Gibbon and Firehole Rivers and flows out of the park to the west.

These elk were photographed along the Madison River and the weest entrance road into Yellowstone National Park.

This bull Bison was photographed along the Madison River and along the west entrance road into Yellowstone National Park.

The Madison River is one of many rivers in Yellowstone National Park and flows out of the park to the west. The west entrance road follows the river and is a beautiful fourteen mile drive.

Continuing our tour of Yellowstone National Park, we now come into the park via the west entrance. That road is fourteen miles and follows the Madison River, the river in this photo. The photo, taken in September, shows, too, the warmth of the river, which is fed by hot springs and is quite warm year around. There are often bison and elk along the river, some of which are shown in the inset photos.

These are some of the bison herd that had traffic stopped along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park when we were there. No one was about to challenge them as they used the road for their own purposes. The bison shown include a bull, a cow and a calf.

This close-up was taken along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park and is of a bull bison, part of small herd that had traffic stopped as they ambled down the road.

After stopping to photograph a small herd of elk along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park we were stopped by a herd of Bison that were coming down the road. This was the big bull of the herd and we photographed him as he went by the car.

Hooded Ladies'-tresses, Spiranthes romanzoffiana, like wet meadows and that is where we found these, in as wet meadow along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park. In fact we found them in several of the geyser basins as well and along the Gibbon River. The common name, Ladies'-tresses, refers to the braided appearance of the flower spikes, not very evident in this picture.