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Yellowstone National Park has released their visitation statistics so far for 2023. In July 2023, the park had 969,692 recreation visits. That is a 63% increase compared to July 2022.  Year-to-date, the park has hosted 2,463,202 recreational visits, a total that is up 33% from this time in 2022. Below is a list of Yellowstone…

A group of Yellowstone tourists were caught on camera on the side of the road in the park refusing to back away from a black bear, despite being told directly to do so by two Park Rangers. In a video shared to Tourons of Yellowstone, at least eight people were out of their vehicles with…

Despite warnings from the National Park Service, another tourist has been caught on camera getting too close to the wildlife and putting themselves and animals in danger. A group of Yellowstone visitors were caught chasing an adolescent bear across a road. James Dean, a photographer, was able to record the incident. In the video, cinnamon-colored…

Grand Teton National Park staff will continue habitat restoration projects this summer as part of a multi-phase restoration effort to replace approximately 4,500 acres of non-native grass fields with native sagebrush habitat. A healthy sagebrush ecosystem in Grand Teton is vital for the diversity and abundance of native plants and wildlife species like elk, bison,…

With Yellowstone National Park being fully opened to tourists this past week, the summer tourist season is in full swing. All over the country, people from not only the United States, but from all over the world, will come and see the beauty and wonderment of our Parks System that was started when “The Yellowstone National Park…

A 35° Fahenrheit morning surrounded by mist and snowcapped mountains hardly seems like the first day of the summer season, but that didn’t deter a long line of locals and visitors eager to enter Yellowstone National Park on Friday morning. The East Entrance of Yellowstone was scheduled to officially open at 8 a.m. on May…

Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks consistently rank amongst the most popular national parks in the United States. But a new list considering several factors knocks both of Wyoming’s national parks out of the top ten – and the top twenty. In celebration of National Parks Week, Travel Lemming released a data-backed ranking of all…

Yellowstone National Park returns to critical road construction projects to improve and enhance the visitor experience, taking a sizeable chunk out of the park’s maintenance backlog. There will be four major road improvement projects in Yellowstone National Park in 2023. All four projects – Lewis River Bridge, Old Faithful to West Thumb, Yellowstone River Bridge,…

Yellowstone National Park faced “a flood” of challenges in 2022, and its visitation reflects it, but park officials and their partners can still reflect on a year of unprecedented accomplishment. On Tuesday, Feb. 28, Yellowstone National Park released the final visitation statistics for 2022. Unfortunately, there are no surprises – after one of the most…

Yellowstone National Park is included as an embodiment of “We the People,” with a unique Christmas tree in the East Room of The White House for the 2022 holiday season. Themed Christmas displays in The White House have been a tradition since the Kennedy Administration. According to M.S.N., Jackie Kennedy set a precedent in 1961…


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