Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is announcing that the park has hosted 992,352 recreation visits in July 2024, which is up 2% from July 2023 (969,692 recreation visits). This July’s visitation showed an 8% decrease from July 2021 (1,080,767 recreation visits). So far in 2024, the park has hosted 2,626,091 recreation visits, up 7% from 2023 (2,462,535…
An unusually large geyser explosion has destroyed a boardwalk in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park officials say around 10:00AM MST on Tuesday morning, a small hydrothermal explosion occurred in the Biscuit Basin thermal area, about two miles from of Old Faithful. Numerous videos of the event were recorded by visitors. The explosion appears to have…
Yellowstone National Park is announcing that starting on Thursday, August 1, people may apply to the 2024-2025 winter lottery for permits to snowmobile in Yellowstone National Park without a commercial guide. Authorized in 2013, the Non-Commercially Guided Snowmobile Access Program allows permit-holders to enter the park for up to three days with a group of up…
Five visitors to Yellowstone National Park are lucky to be alive as their vehicle crashed into a geyser thermal on Thursday morning. On Thursday, around 10:45AM, a car with five occupants inadvertently drove off the roadway and into the Semi-Centennial Geyser thermal feature near Roaring Mountain between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Junction in Yellowstone…
A rare white bison calf that was born on June 4 in Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park, hasn’t been seen since the first week of June, according to park officials. Captured on camera by visitors and photographers, just moments after it was born, the calf’s photos were shared online, going viral on social media…
If the past week portends anything about this tourist season in Yellowstone National Park, it’s going to be a summer to remember. So far, two rare occurrences have happened, making people on social media go into a tizzy with excitement and celebration. First, a momma grizzly was captured on video with her litter of five…
An 83-year old woman is lucky to be alive after being gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone Park officials say the bison was “defending its space” when it gored the South Carolina woman near the Storm Point Trail, which is located at the north end of Yellowstone Lake. The bison “came within…
After a spring snowstorm dumped a ton of snow on the Montana/Wyoming Border last week, the Beartooth Highway (US-212) has remained closed. An avalanche, causing rocks and debris to damage the road, spoiled the National Park Service‘s goal of having the scenic highway into Yellowstone National Park opened by Memorial Day weekend. Mother Nature spoiled…
If you plan to travel to Yellowstone National Park this summer, plan ahead to protect yourself and this wild and awe-inspiring place. Within the park’s 2.2 million acres, visitors have unparalleled opportunities to observe wildlife in an intact ecosystem, explore geothermal areas that contain half the world’s active geysers and view geologic wonders like the…
The summer tourist season isn’t even a month old and people are having precarious interactions with wildlife in Yellowstone National Park. On a recent visit to Yellowstone, one hiker filming a herd of moose in Round Prairie was surprised to spot two of the huge animals chasing after a park visitor who had chosen to get…