Janet Jones is an amateur naturalist living in Cody, Wyoming.

Be Outside • Take Notes

Welcome! Yellowstone Naturalist is an online field journal of life in the greater Yellowstone area. Here you’ll find travel tips and advice from a local on exploring and learning about Yellowstone.

Hi there – I’m Janet Jones, a writer/photographer. One of the places I know best is Yellowstone, having grown up coming to visit family in the Cody area. Now I call it home. I’ve guided tours in Yellowstone for a local tour company. I visit the park regularly, and want to help you learn about all this area has to offer.

 

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From the changes in the seasons to the changes in the thermal features, plus travel tips to make your trip to Yellowstone easier!

Yellowstone Travel
Yellowstone 101

Get to know the Geysers
GeyserWatch

Documenting Wonder
Field Journaling

The Greater Yellowstone Area

With so much to explore, Yellowstone is so vast that one lifetime is not enough to “see it all.”

Yellowstone Communities (5 gateway and 1 in yellowstone)

Seasons (2 commercial seasons)

Thermal Features (a conservative estmiate)

 Recent Articles

I write about front country geysers and hot springs, share my photography and observe the changing seasons. I also share some travel tips for Yellowstone from a local’s viewpoint.

Get to know Riverside Geyser

Get to know Riverside Geyser

Riverside Geyser is a beautiful geyser that’s often more reliable than Old Faithful, sits in a lovely setting and often shows rainbows in the spray in the late afternoon. In this article, I’ll explain how to watch for the signs of an eruption and share some of my...

Get to know Castle Geyser

Get to know Castle Geyser

Castle Geyser is one of the major geysers in the Upper Geyser Basin and it’s eruptions are predicted. Generally you can expect Castle Geyser to erupt once a day during the daylight hours. In this article we’ll take a closer look at this amazing geyser. THE BASICS OF...

Get to know Daisy Geyser

Get to know Daisy Geyser

Daisy Geyser was a favorite of my Grandmother. Based on the stories she told me, I think in part because she was around when Park Naturalist, George Marler, was learning more about it in the 1940s and 1950s. In this article, I’ll take you through what to watch for...

SnowMoon Photography

Janet's Books

I’ve written two editions of a guide book to West Thumb Geyser Basin. Another book is in the works that’s more general about the thermal features in Yellowstone slated for publication in late 2020/early 2021.

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