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