Day 13 - Hamburger Heaven!

Steph’s grandmother Dean had told us about a place she and her family had eaten at MANY years ago when they visited Yellowstone. It was “on the left going out of Gardiner, Mt.” We were going out that entrance so we took off to find it.

Still snowing and cold here, but just beautiful. When you go out the entrance at Gardiner, you climb up into the mountains and then drop into a valley. There isn’t as much snow on this side of the park. It’s quite warm (almost 60 degrees) and the sun comes out now and then.

We’ve passed a sign marking the 45^th Parallel – Halfway between the Equator and the North Pole.

We stopped to take pictures of the Roosevelt Arch and headed into Gardiner. It’s a long row of tourist shops, a left turn over the river, and 2 long rows of more shops leading out of town. We drove through town (didn’t take long), but didn’t see the hamburger place. We turned around and headed back through town. There on the right was a sign for Helen’s Corral Drive-In – Home of the Montana Hateful Burger since 1960! Had to be the place! David pulled in and we got out to order. You can see from the photos how large the burger was! I ate around the outside and David ate what was left which was still a LOT!

Coming back into the park we came back down the Old Faithful loop road. This time our two favorite drives were open. We turned into Firehole Geyser Road and immediately saw several carcasses. Could have been deer or elk, but didn’t know for sure. Didn’t take pictures of them, either! There were also some trees that were cut right at the road. It appeared they’d just opened the road that day.

We saw a lot of buffalo and elk and had a great time!

See ya down the road!

Jenny J