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.

04 Aug 2020 Trip Report – Upper Geyser Basin

04 Aug 2020 Trip Report – Upper Geyser Basin

This is the second half of my trip report/field journal entry for 04 Aug 2020. You can read the first half where I cover observations at West Thumb Geyser Basin here. This post brought to you by: When at my car at West Thumb Geyser Basin, I debated...

04 Aug 2020 Trip Report – West Thumb Geyser Basin

04 Aug 2020 Trip Report – West Thumb Geyser Basin

As life in summer gets busy, I find myself up to my eyes in projects and yet needing to get into Yellowstone to document what I see in the geyser basins. On this day, curiosity about what's happening at West Thumb is the driving force of this "need." Still, I also may...

Grub Steak Expeditions/Tour Yellowstone

Grub Steak Expeditions/Tour Yellowstone

You may have noticed that I've started to add in a few select sponsors for this site. Today I'd like to introduce you to Tour Yellowstone. I've worked for them for the past four years in various capacities and highly recommend them. History Grub Steak Expeditions/Tour...

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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