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We hit Yellowstone about once a year although we missed last year. We haven't gone mid June, july, or August in about 7-8 years and never will again. Early October is probably my choice. I have stopped going to any of the main thermal features. We go bear watching mostly. One 4 day trip we saw 21 Grizzlies altogether but I'm sure a couple were repeats of previous days. I like to do short hikes too. Some day soon hopefully late summer after school starts, we will do the kayak camping in the sothern part where you have to drag it up the river like 1/2 mile and then get to a 2nd lake that is otherwise pretty remote. There are like 10 campspots scattered on the shore and you get a specific one reserved. It's a big lake so 10 small groups is nothing.
East of Yellowstone is a place called Bighorn Canyon. That seems to get skipped by everyone and it's really great. Badlands, deep, deep canyon, remote mountains surrounding, great indigenous people history and artifacts and my daughters favorite, the wild horse preserve. About 130 completely wild horses who summer on high wildflower filled meadows that run 30 degrees cooler than the badlands below. It's like a 15x15 mile area where you might only see one other car. Petroglyphs, ice caves, teepee rings, fighting wild stallions, and fields of green grass and wildflowers at like 8000 feet over an orange canyon badlands area.
The road up there is tough, that's one of the main reasons we bought this camper. A regular camper would never make it, and it's a long day to try and do all at once.
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