Yellowstone National Park Travel Guide

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A trip to Yellowstone has been a rich part of the American experience for five generations now. Though it's remote, we come, 3,000,000 strong year after year. When we arrive, we gasp at the incomparable combination of natural beauty, rugged wilderness, majestic peaks, and abundant wildlife. Indescribable geysers, mudpots, fumaroles, and hot springs make this magma-filled pressure cooker of a park unlike any place else on earth. If you're not here for the geysers, chances are that you've come to spot some of the teeming wildlife, from grazing bison to cruising trumpeter swans.

Yellowstone National Park Hotels

Park lodgings range from two of the national park system's magnificent old hotels to simple cabins to bland modern motels. Make reservations at least two...read more

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Yellowstone National Park Restaurants

When traveling in Yellowstone it's always a good idea to bring along a cooler—that way you can carry some snacks and lunch items for a picnic or break...read more

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Things To Do in Yellowstone National Park

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Yellowstone National Park Experiences

Top Reasons to Go to Yellowstone National Park

Hot spots: Thinner-than-normal crust depth and a huge magma chamber beneath the park explain Yellowstone's abundant geysers, steaming pools, hissing... Read more
America's First National Park

Yellowstone was established in 1872 as America's first national park. It's popularly believed that early-19th-century French trappers called... Read more
Good Reads

The Yellowstone Story, by Aubrey L. Haines, is a classic.... Read more
Ever-Changing Yellowstone

Yellowstone is definitely not a sleepy world of natural wonders. The park truly feels alive when you see mudpots, steam vents, fumaroles, and... Read more
A World of Geological Wonders

Spouting geysers, bubbling mudpots, and hissing steam vents have earned fame for Yellowstone, which has the greatest concentration of thermal... Read more
Flora and Fauna

Eighty percent of Yellowstone is forest, and the great majority of it is lodgepole pine. Miles and miles of the "telephone pole" pines burned... Read more