Due to unprecedented Yellowstone flooding, a new system for regulating traffic has been introduced called the Yellowstone ALPS – Alternating License Plate System. In this post, learn how ALPS works and when Yellowstone plans to fully reopen after the floods. Yellowstone Flooding – What Happened? Last week (June 15th, 2022), torrents of rainfall hit Yellowstone… Read More »
How many visitors will hit the road to the United States’ sixth-most-visited national park is anyone’s guess, a National Park Service spokesman said. Perched over a hot spot in the Earth’s crust (mostly in Wyoming), Yellowstone is the product of three mammoth volcanic eruptions. It was established as the first U.S. national park in 1872… Read More »
A bison walks in Yellowstone National Park. A 72-year-old woman from California was gored by a bison at Yellowstone National Park on Thursday. Park officials said in a press release about the incident that the woman had gotten too close to the bison while taking pictures. A senior bison biologist at Yellowstone said in the… Read More »
When bear capture activities are ongoing, areas nearby will have bright warning signs which alert the public to the fact that bear capturing is occurring. These signs are posted along major access points to the capture site, Yellowstone said. The NPS said “it is important that the public heed these signs and do not venture… Read More »
Yellowstone Volcano’s Steamboat Geyser, which is the world’s largest active geyser, has at points been spewing hot steam some 300 feet into the air since 2018. However, Steamboat runs at its own rhythm in the Norris Geyser Basin, unlike the likes of Old Faithful and Porkchop Geysers which are linked. Geysers like Old Faithful and… Read More »
Download Yellowstone Map PDF This Yellowstone map is an essential tool to planning a vacation in this huge park with property in three states, Wyo., Mont. and Idaho. Note the route of the Grand Loop Road and the attraction areas of the park before you decide on where to stay and what park entrance to… Read More »
Two Philadelphia women who walked off a path and damaged an environmentally sensitive thermal area of Yellowstone National Park were sentenced to two days in jail and ordered to pay fines and restitution, the top federal prosecutor in Wyoming said Thursday. Tara L. Davoli, 31, and Sarah A. Piotrowski, 30, were banned from Yellowstone for… Read More »
Visitors leaving the Old Faithful boardwalks after an eruption Opening Day MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park reopened two (east and south) of five entrances on Monday, May 18, following Phase 1 of its reopening plan (read more in the May 13 news release). Visitation Visitation through the first three days of operations… Read More »
Ranger Don demonstrates a new extendable arm prototype at Yellowstone’s South Entrance In light of the spread of COVID-19, trying to find out what is open and closed in our national parks is a moving target these days. The park service is coordinating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state and local… Read More »