Yellowstone National Park Features

Yellowstone National Park Features

• 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

• Where to Stay
  

  There are a couple of factors to consider when deciding on which community to stay overnight in at the park. Some of these include deciding if... read more

• Yellowstone in Winter
  

  To see a spectacularly different Yellowstone than that experienced by 90% of the park's visitors, come in winter. Rocky outcroppings are smoothed... read more

• Park Ranger Mary Wilson
  

  For Yellowstone National Park Ranger Mary Wilson, every day is an adventure and, even after two decades of working in some of the nation's most... read more