Cristina Eisenberg contributes a lot of interesting articles to the Huff Post.

My favorite section of YNP (though I love all of it) is the the Lamar River drainage in the northeast sector which includes Slough Creek and Soda Butte Creek. It's not nearly as crowded as the other parts of the park (probably due to the relative paucity of geothermal features there) and it is the best area in the park for viewing wildlife (bison, grizzly and black bears, wolves, coyotes, elk, moose, pronghorns, big horn sheep, river otters...) especially if you hike up into the back country. I like to go after Aug. 15 when the crowds thin out as the kids are going back to school and the weather starts to cool a bit.