SOLITUDE AT LATITUDE: Yellowstone National Park's Shoshone Lake offers canoeing seclusion

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Yellowstone National Park’s second largest lake offers paddlers a chance to cruise clear alpine waters and camp in the pines while conversing with raucous ravens and loudly protesting squirrels.

Although these activities may be common to other waters, Shoshone Lake also has the added cachet of a backcountry geyser basin that warms a creek where large red dragonflies zing through the air like scarlet darts.