Deena Yellin

Deena Yellin

Deena Yellin is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday and The Record, where she has worked as a reporter for over two decades. She is an avid hiker and traveler whose two dogs enjoy accompanying her on cross country trips. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Most Recent Works

I Drove America’s Most Terrifying Road, the ‘Highway to the Sky’

I Drove America’s Most Terrifying Road, the ‘Highway to the Sky’

I gripped the steering wheel tightly as we ascended the mountain and snaked around a cliff with a hair-raising twist. “Don’t look down,” I told myself, as I contemplated the steep drop below. But the view, with towering mountain peaks and deep gorges, was too jaw-dropping to ignore. We were on the iconic Trail Ridge Road, … Continued