On our first day in Yellowstone NP, a ranger recommended that one of the "best kept secrets" at YNP was Cave Falls. It is located in the far southwest corner of the park and is only accessible by a road that includes ten miles of gravel. This was our destination for today. We drove south to Ashton, Idaho to pick up the National Forestry Road that leads to the falls. The road was a little bumpy with "washboards", but most vehicles would make it without any problems. The falls are not very high, but are the widest in the park. There were a couple of guys fly-fishing and a few more people viewing the falls. We brought a picnic lunch, so we "grabbed" one of the few tables around. We had a nice lunch and then headed back toward Ashton.
The colors changing...
A view of the Teton Range from the wheat fields of Ashton.
On our way back, we decided to find a few geocaches that were in the Ashton area. One in particular, that we had failed to find on a previous attempt. We spent 3-4 hours driving from cache to cache, seeing the countryside. The cache that had alluded us in the past has now been conquered. It was an ingenious location. The cache was a hollowed-out bolt on a city Stop sign. Click on the picture below to see the log in the bolt.
After we arrived home, we called John & Terri on the Skype phone and made our plans for "meeting up" in Cheyenne, WY next week.
