When we were here last summer, we were told the grass doesn't really get tall until the Fall, so we planned a return. There are areas of the hiking trail where the Park Ranger assured us the Grass is over your head. That is a trip for another day. I wrote and posted a lot of pictures from the first trip, so I will be brief with this one. I was disappointed to find the park subject to budget costs, the house is now only open for Self Tours and they ask you to return the sheet of paper that is a guide after you are done. For the moment you don't get the experience of waiting on the front porch and having a park ranger in green uniform and smoky the bear hat open the door and greeting you. Also the bus tours have been cut to twice a day. The good news is Bison will be at the park by the end of the year. As if this wonder of nature needed any reason to return time and time again, we will go back.
The Prairie itself does look different, the blue stem grass shows a fall color that was absent the first time and adds to the subtle beauty of the place. The vast expanse of nothing ness is still mediative, you wish you can stay all day, and I guess if you want to leave the bus tour you can, as a group on our tour did.
I'll let the pictures of Fall on the Prairie speak for themselves.
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